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 UT Dallas Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
(ECS) is committed to an
initiative in Information Assurance (IA). This includes enhanced
research in security assurance and intelligent network technology to
reduce cyber-threats and safeguard the nation’s information assets. In
addition, we are providing more students and the community with IA
education and training.
Dr. Kamil Sarac
of the Computer
Science Department was appointed head of the Jonsson School's IA
Program, which involves coordination with faculty and staff to continue
development of a pervasive IA program on an on-going basis.
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
is the Louis A. Beecherl, Jr.
I Distinguished Professor in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and
Computer Science since September 2010. She joined UT Dallas in October
2004 as a
Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security
Research and Education Center.
 UT Dallas
received certifications from the U.S. National Security Agency's Information
Assurance Courseware Evaluation Program. The Committee on National
Security Systems (CNSS) and The National Security Agency (NSA) certify
that UT Dallas offers a set of courseware that has
been reviewed by National Level IA Subject Matter
Experts and determined to meet National Training Standard for Information
Systems Security (INFOSEC) Professionals, CNSS National Standards 4011,
4012, and 4013.
M.S.
in Computer Science with Information Assurance Track |
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*CS
6324 Information Security*
(3 semester hours) This course provides a comprehensive study of
security vulnerabilities in information systems and the basic techniques
for developing secure applications and practicing safe computing. Topics
include common attacking techniques such as buffer overflow, Trojan,
virus, etc; UNIX, Windows and Java security; conventional encryption;
hashing functions and data integrity; public-key encryption (RSA,
Elliptic-Curve); digital signatures; watermarking for multimedia;
security standards and applications; building secure software and
systems; management and analysis of security; and legal and ethical
issues in computer security.
*CS
6377 Introduction to Cryptography *(3 semester hours) This
course covers the basic aspects of modern cryptography, including block
ciphers, pseudorandom functions, symmetric encryption, hash functions,
message authentication, number-theoretic primitives, public-key
encryption, digital signatures and zero knowledge proofs.
*CS
6379 Data and Application Security* (3 semester hours) The
course will teach principles, technologies, tools and trends for data
and applications security. Topics to be covered include:
Confidentiality, Privacy and Trust Management; Secure Databases; Secure
Distributed Systems; Secure Multimedia and Object Systems; Secure Data
Warehouses; Data Mining for Security Applications; Assured Information
Sharing; Secure Knowledge Management; Secure Collaboration; Secure
Digital Libraries; Trustworthy Semantic Web; Biometrics; Digital
Forensics; Secure E-Commerce; Secure Sensor Information Management and
Secure Social Networks. Students will take one system or application and
develop a secure version of that system or application for the
programming project.
*CS
6387 Network Security* (3 semester hours) This course covers
theoretical and practical aspects of network security. The topics
include use of cryptography for building secure communication protocols
and authentication systems; security handshake pitfalls, Kerberos and
PKI, security of TCP/IP protocols including IPsec, BGP security, VPNs,
IDSes, firewalls, and anonymous routing; security of TCP/IP
applications; wireless LAN security; denial-of-service defense. Students
are required to do a programming project building a distributed
application with certain secure communication features and required to
participate in several network security lab exercises and cyber war
games.
*CS
6v81 Biometrics* (3 semester hours) The students will first
learn various biometrics technologies including face biometrics,
fingerprint biometrics, iris biometrics, retina biometrics, and hand
biometrics. Next the students will learn techniques for securing
biometrics systems./ Finally the students will examine the various
standards efforts on biometrics including the work of the Biometrics
Consortiums and Liberty Alliance. Students will develop a biometric
system for their programming project.
*CS
7301 Language Based Security* (3 semester hours) This course
applies cutting-edge techniques from programming language theory and
compiler construction to the development and verification of secure
software systems. Topics include language-based information flow
security, software fault isolation, in-lined reference monitoring, typed
assembly languages, certifying compilers, proof-carrying code, and
automated binary obfuscation. Coursework involves reading and
implementing recent research in the field.
*CS
7301 Advanced Cryptography for Data Security* (3 semester
hours) This course discusses recent advances in cryptography for data
security applications. The topics include identity based encryption,
homomorphic encryption and its applications to data security. Additional
topics include range queries on encrypted data, secure multi-part
computation, and rational secure multi-computation.
*CS
7301 Data Privacy *(3 semester hours) This course discusses
the basic aspects of data privacy and existing privacy-preserving
technologies. In addition, it discusses legal, social and economic
aspects of data privacy. Other topics include privacy legislations,
anonymization techniques, cryptographic techniques for data privacy,
access control, privacy-preserving data mining, and privacy issues in
healthcare.**
*CS
7301 Building Trustworthy Semantic Webs* (3 semester hours)
This course will provide an overview of semantic web technologies
including XML, RDF, OWL and SWRL and will then describe security issues
for semantic web technologies. In particular, secure publication of XML
documents, securing ontologies and RDF documents will be examined.
Policy management with semantic web technologies will be discussed.
Finally applications such as secure web services, assured information,
secure knowledge management and secure social networking that utilize
semantic web technologies will be examined. Students will implement one
such application for their programming project.
*CS
7301 Advanced Digital Forensics* - to
be offered in Spring 2012 for the first time.
*Potential
IA Electives* |
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To find out more information about the UT Dallas CyberSecurity & Emergency Preparedness Institute, please contact:
Dr. E. Douglas Harris,
Associate Dean and Research Professor
Executive Director, CyberSecurity & Emergency Preparedness Institute
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas="MARGIN-TOP: 0; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0">
800 W. Campbell Road
M/S WT-11
Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
Phones: 972-883-2631
Fax: 972-883-4441
Email:
edh@utdallas.edu
To find out more information about the Erik Jonsson School's Information Assurance Program, please contact:
Dr. Kamil Sarac,
Associate Professor, CS
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Road
M/S EC-31
Richardson, Texas 75080-3021
Phone: 972-883-2337
Fax: 972-883-2349
Email:
ksarac@utdallas.edu
To find out more information about the
Information Security at UT Dallas, please contact:
Ms. Leah Teutsch
Chief Information Security Officer
Director, Information Security
Phone: 972-883-6855
Email:
teutsch@utdallas.edu
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