CIS 890, Spring 2009
Research Topics in Security
Course Goals
Computer and information security is having an ever-increasing
impact on people's day-to-day life. However, the current cyber
warfare is highly tilted towards the attackers' advantage. It
is extremely difficult to secure a large complex system. And
an attacker only needs to get lucky once. Significant improvement
is needed in today's state of the art for cyber defense technologies.
In this course we will study several of the most pressing security
problems in this area, and try to find solutions to them.
These problems include security configuration management, intrusion
detection and response, security metrics, and cyber forensics.
The course is research-oriented and students are expected to
present papers in the literature as well as their own work.
We will have both periodic meetings and individual appointments.
The purpose of the meetings is to foster discussion among students
with the expectation that promising solutions be identified and formulated.
The goal of the course is to facilitate students in starting independent
research in computer security.
Course Schedule
Instructor and course meeting times
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Instructor: Xinming (Simon) Ou.
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Meeting time and place:
Monday 3:30-5:10 and Friday 3:30-4:20 in Nichols 127
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Office hours: by appointment
Prerequisites
CIS751: Computer and Information Security, or instructor permission.
Contact
Questions can be emailed to xou (put some stuff here) ksu (a little dot) edu.