SECURITY, PRIVACY, & TRUST (CS2055)

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The course provides an understanding on the need for security, privacy and trust in ICT. Legal and ethical aspects will be covered. Technology for security, privacy and trust will be presented at a functional level. The following topics will be covered: security threats and solutions, intellectual property rights, anonymity and identity, business stakeholders privacy obligations, privacy in today applications (search engine, social networks, location oriented services, RFId-based applications), privacy enhancing technologies, privacy policy enforcement, trusted computing.

Code: 
CS2055
Name: 
SECURITY, PRIVACY, & TRUST
Discipline: 
CS (Computer Science)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Undergraduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
SECURITY, PRIVACY, & TRUST (DS2055)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand how privacy is perceived, what is at stake in existing ICT applications and how data protection can help.
  2. Understand the basics of security threats and solutions as a user.
  3. Understand what is trusted computing.

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