Created as part of the Master of Networks and Security - 2014

17/7/13 Added teaching responsibility. Effective Semester 1 2015.

19/9/13 - Updated unit synopsis since it was out of date for 2014 Unit Handbook entry.

19/9/13 - Updated Objectives to comply with AQF requirements.

13/12/13 - Amended Proposed year of Introduction from Semester 1, 2015 to Semester 2, 2014 to cater for students enrolling in MNS in full-time mode in Semester 1, 2014. This change was approved by the ADE on 12 Dec 2013.

2/8/17 - request from Ron Steinfeld to update exam hours on his behalf: change from 3 hours to 2 hours as per new University Examinations Policy. Effective S1 2018.

29/06/2018: Admin - amendment to Assessment removing the 30 minutes reading and noting time and reverting to the standard 10 minutes reading and noting time, as per FEC Email Meeting 1/18.

20/9/2019: Admin - updating exam duration to include additional 10 minutes as per University requirement.

09/10/2020 - Admin: Update to include new assessment and teaching approach fields as per Handbook requirements.

15/12/2020 - CE Approval for changes effective S1 2021.

15/12/2020 - Updated the learning objectives, unit synopsis, and assessments based on the approved refreshment of this unit.

This is an elective unit of the Master of Networks and Security offered from 2014. This unit will provide students with a theoretical and practical knowledge of important advanced topics in IT security.

On successful completion of this unit students should be able to:

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This unit aims to provide students with advanced knowledge of cybersecurity. Advancements in cloud services, mobile computing, and machine learning bring much convenience to our lives, improve our productivity in daily work, and provide us with personalised services. Despite many benefits, these new paradigms incur aggravated security and privacy concerns. End-users, enterprises, and governments face growing threats from sophisticated cyber attacks. This unit will study advanced cybersecurity technologies to address those threats in the current practice. Topics include design and implementation of advanced cryptosystems for high-performance applications such as encrypted databases, cryptographic protocols and hardware-assisted approaches for secure computing applications such as privacy-preserving machine learning, and practical post-quantum cryptography that can address the emerging threats of quantum computers. Learning activities will focus on understanding security and privacy issues in cloud and networked systems, encrypted search techniques, cloud storage security, secure multi-party computation techniques, trusted computing, and lattice-based cryptography.

on-campus

Peer assisted learning

Examination (2 hours and 10 minutes): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

1. Problems on Encrypted Search Protocols (Individual assessment task) - 20% - ULO: 1, 2, 5
2. Evaluation of Secure Computation Protocols and Techniques (Individual and/or group assessment task) - 20% - ULO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
3. End of semester exam - 60% - ULO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

(a.) Contact hours for on-campus students:

(b.) Additional requirements (all students):

The tutorial room must be in a computer lab with a white board. Some of the material requires computer work, and some involves problem solving on the white board.

FIT

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