units

FIT3031

Faculty of Information Technology

18 September 2017 19 April 2024
Monash University

Undergraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2014 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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LevelUndergraduate
FacultyFaculty of Information Technology
OfferedSouth Africa First semester 2014 (Day)
Gippsland Second semester 2014 (Day)
Gippsland Second semester 2014 (Off-campus)
Malaysia Second semester 2014 (Day)
Clayton Summer semester B 2014 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit will provide students with an understanding of: OSI security architecture; common information risks and requirements; operation of encryption techniques; digital signatures; public key infrastructure; authentication and non-repudiation; intrusion detection and response; firewall defence; privacy and ethics issues; security configurations to PC-based applications; and design of information systems with security compliance and security standards and protocols.

Outcomes

At the completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  • describe OSI security architecture and apply common security standards and protocols for network security applications e.g. electronic mail, IP, web and network management;
  • critically assess threats, vulnerabilities and risks to an organisations information assets and propose control technologies and techniques which can be applied to reduce the security risk;
  • apply cryptographic techniques to develop methods to disguise information to ensure its integrity, confidentiality and authenticity;
  • describe the ethical, legal and criminal issues relating to the security of information and network systems;
  • implement cryptographic algorithms and security protocols to provide security over networks and the Internet;
  • design system security against intruders and malicious software;
  • apply security configurations to computer and network based applications.

Assessment

Examination (3 hours): 60%; In-semester assessment: 40%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Nandita Bhattacharjee

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week comprising:

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

  • 2 hours of lectures
  • One 2-hour laboratory

(b.) Study schedule for off-campus students:

  • Off-campus students generally do not attend lecture and tutorial sessions, however should plan to spend equivalent time working through the relevant resources and participating in discussion groups each week.

(c.) Additional requirements (all students):

  • A minimum of 8 hours independent study per week for completing lab and project work, private study and revision.

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Applications development and networks
Business systems
Information and communication technologies

Prerequisites

One of FIT1005, FIT1031, FIT1019, FIT2008, CSE2318, CSE3318 or GCO1815

Prohibitions

CPE3001, CPE2007, CSE2500, GCO2831, FIT2058, FIT3018, FIT4028, GCO4831

Additional information on this unit is available from the faculty at:

http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/units/fit3031