Designing and Building Secure Infrastructures

Recommended Prerequisites

BSc in Informatics Engineering or equivalent

Teaching Methods

Lecture classes (T): presentation and discussion around the topics of the course.

Lab classes (PL): application of theoretical concepts in projects.

The MSI theoretical classes will take place, preferably, Friday afternoon and Saturday morning. Theoretical classes will also be broadcast by teleconference and will be recorded to allow the students to follow the classes remotely.

The practical classes will be preferably booked Friday morning. The practical assignments may also be developed by the students in remote and asynchronous mode with remote support of teachers.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

• Design of secure infrastructures for Cloud environments
• Intrusion detection and prevention systems (IDS/IPS)
• Alarms mechanisms
• Security in mobile environments
• Security in the Internet of Things (IoT)
• Protection of industrial control networks and other critical infrastructures
• Communication services for scenarios of Public Protection & Disaster Relief
• Security in communication services

Head Lecturer(s)

Paulo Alexandre Ferreira Simões

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Exam: 50.0%
Project: 50.0%

Bibliography

Tim Mather, Subra Kumaraswamy, Shahed Latif, Cloud Security and Privacy An Enterprise Perspective on Risks and Compliance, O'Reilly Media, 2009.

Ronald L. Krutz, Russell Dean Vines, Cloud Security: A Comprehensive Guide to Secure Cloud Computing, Wiley, 2010.

Fei Hu, Security and Privacy in Internet of Things (IoTs): Models, Algorithms, and Implementations, CRC Press  2016.

F. Flammini, Critical Infrastructure Security, Assessment, Prevention, Detection, Response, WIT Press 2012.

Sajal K. Das, Krishna Kant and Nan Zhang, Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure, Science Direct, 2012.