Systems Security

 

Course Description

This course covers the security of users, individual computer systems, including personal computers, smart cards and embedded platforms. The course starts with considerations of common frauds on the Internet and the related ecosystem, security of widely used computer platforms and user authentication. Then, topics such as physical-layer attacks and tamper resistant hardware are discussed. Finally, the course ends with a set of selected security topics like biometrics, computer forensics, and Bitcoin.

 

Objectives

Students will acquire foundational knowledge in cyber security and the required skill-set to analyze and/or create secure systems in a diverse group of organizations.

Target Audience

Engineers, computer scientists and computer engineers.

Components

Assignments and Final Exam

No of Credits

12 Credits
 

Course Details

Date:          23 January 2018 to 30 April 2018
Day:           Every Wednesday
Time:         7 pm to 10 pm (3 hours)
Venue:       Singapore University of Technology and Design
                   8 Somapah Road
                   Singapore 487372 (Google Map)


Closing Date:  2 January 2018
 

Full Course Fee:  $3210 (inclusive of Prevailing GST)
 

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Instructor Profile

Pawel Szalachowski is currently the Assistant Professor of Information Systems Technology and Design at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD). Prior to joining SUTD, he was a senior researcher at ETH Zurich, where he led the design and implementation of the SCION architecture. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Warsaw University of Technology in 2012.

Research Interests:

Applied Cryptography,Computer and Network Security.

He  interested in building and analyzing secure networked systems, particularly in the following fields:

  • network and systems security (Internet, SSL/TLS, PKI, SDN, IoT),

  • FinTech security (blockchain, cryptocurrencies, smart contracts).

Education and Work Experience

  • 2017 – present, Assistant Professor, SUTD

  • 2013 – 2017, Senior Researcher, ETH Zurich

  • 2010 – 2012, Research Assistant and PhD Student, Warsaw University of Technology

Awards

  • ICDCS’16 Best Paper Award

Selected Publications

(Pawel’s full list of publications is available here.)

  • A.Perrig, P.Szalachowski, RM.Reischuk, L.Chuat, SCION: A Secure Internet Architecture, (book) , Springer-Verlag, 2017
  • D.Barrera, L.Chuat, A.Perrig, RM.Reischuk, P.Szalachowski, An Internet Architecture for the 21st Century – The SCION Internet Architecture, Communications of the ACM (CACM), 2017
  • S.Matsumoto, RM.Reischuk, P.Szalachowski, THJ.Kim, A.Perrig, Authentication Challenges in a Global Environment, ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security (TOPS), 2017
  • P.Szalachowski, L.Chuat, T.Lee, A.Perrig, RITM: Revocation in the Middle, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2016
  • P.Szalachowski, L.Chuat, A.Perrig, PKI Safety Net (PKISN): Addressing the Too-Big-to-Be-Revoked Problem of the TLS Ecosystem, In Proceedings of IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy (EuroS&P), 2016
  • C.Basescu, RM.Reischuk, P.Szalachowski, A.Perrig, Y.Zhang, HC.Hsiao, A.Kubota, J.Urakawa, SIBRA: Scalable Internet Bandwidth Reservation Architecture, In Proceedings of Symposium on Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS), 2016
  • L.Chuat, P.Szalachowski, A.Perrig, B.Laurie, E.Messeri, Efficient Gossip Protocols for Verifying the Consistency of Certificate Logs, In Proceedings of IEEE Communications and Network Security (CNS), 2015
  • D.Basin, C.Cremers, THJ.Kim, A.Perrig, R.Sasse, P.Szalachowski, ARPKI: Attack Resilient Public-key Infrastructure, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2014
  • P.Szalachowski, S.Matsumoto, A.Perrig, PoliCert: Secure and Flexible TLS Certificate Management, In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS), 2014.