| Instructor | Georgios Portokalidis, Office Hours: Mondays 4pm-6pm (NB307A) |
| Lecture | Wednesday 06:15pm-08:45pm (NB 102) |
| Lab | Thursday 04:00pm-04:50pm (Babbio 319) |
| Communications | https://piazza.com/stevens/spring2018/cs576 |
| Canvas | https://sit.instructure.com/courses/26306 |
| Calendar | https://goo.gl/u9CbcT (You need to be logged in with your Stevens Google account) |
Keep working on your projects! Code and report due on 5/4!
The final exam is scheduled for 5/9!
This course will cover a wide range of topics in the area of Systems Security. A computer system is composed by software, hardware, policies, and practices. Systems security involves both designing and building secure systems, as well as improving and evaluating the security of existing systems. This course is giving a particular emphasis into providing hands-on experience to students through building, attacking, and securing systems. The class is programming intensive. Those who take the class should be skilled programmers and should have some experience with the C programming language and programming on a Linux environment. It is recommended that students are also familiar with the assembly language and with network and operating system basics.
Detailed information about the course can be found in the syllabus.
The course requires good programming skills (C, C++), including some knowledge of x86 assembly. Also, a basic background in operating systems (mainly UNIX) and networking.
Course prereqs: (Graduate students) CS-631Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment or (Undergraduate students) CS-306 Introduction to IT Security and CS-392 Systems Programming
Textbooks (optional):
Other materials:
Your final grade will be determined by your performance in the following:
| Lab participation | 10% | |
| Midterm Exam | 20% | |
| Final Exam | 20% | |
| Project | 50% |
Authentication and access control.
How software executes: from abstractions to machine-level code.
(Early) Memory corruption attacks.
Early defenses and more attacks.
Modern exploitation and defenses.
Project proposals due. How to prepare a project proposal.
Midterm.
Midterm 2.
Project presentations.
Invited speaker.
Final exam.