CS 400 Course Materials
Computing Security
Spring 2023

General

• Syllabus.
• Materials from when I last taught this.

Readings and Videos

• Week 1, Feb. 2, What is Security Engineering and Usability and Psychology of Security Engineering. Who is Our Adversary? and Threat Models and Security Policies videos.
• Week 2:
  • Feb. 6, Infrastructure Setup
    • How to Create a Virtual Machine in Proxmox VE7
    • Windows 10 Guest Best Practices
    • SPICE Guest Tools for Windows
    • Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
    • Ubuntu 22.04 Configuration, see the material on setting up a DNS server and a DHCP server.
    • Ubuntu Server Documentation. Specifically, see "Routing and Masquerading" here.
    • How to Configure NAT on Ubuntu
  • Feb. 8, Protocols and Access Control of Security Engineering, and Banking Security. Protocols written assignment.
• Week 4:
  • Feb. 22: SEED Labs: SUID Buffer Overflow. Sections 1 through 5. Firewall Exploration. Everything EXCEPT Section 3.
• Week 5:
  • Feb. 27: Cryptography
  • Mar. 1: Cryptography Terminology and SEED Labs.
• Week 6:
  • Mar. 6: Access Control
  • Mar. 8: Labs
• Week 7:
  • Mar. 13: Network Attack and Defense

Assignments

Topics

Resources

• Security Engineering
• Gray Hat Hacking
• Kali Linux Revealed
• SEED Labs

Research and News

• Ross Anderson
• The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security
• The Risks Digest
• Schneier on Security
• Krebs on Security