Leader: Phu Dung Le

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

Introduces students to current practice for managing user identities. This includes the management of access control across multiple applications and systems, and, the management of authentication models and protocols in single applications or distrubuted environment. The application of the authentication models and protocols in supporting electronic payment transactions. Detailed look at a number of biometrics technques used for authentication.

Objectives

Upon completion of this unit students will have a theoretical and conceptual understanding of:

1. the importance of access control to authorised users;
2. the implementation of different access control models in modern operating systems;
3. the significance of authentication in IT security and understand different authentication models and protocols;
4. the role of biometrics and their issues when applied to the authentication process;
5. existing networked authentication models and protocols for distributed systems, such as kerberos;
6. the role of distributed authentication models and protocols in securing electronic transactions.

Assessment

Assignments/Unit test: 50%
Final Exam: 50%.

Contact hours

4 x contact hrs/week

Prerequisites

FIT1019