Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Frederik Armknecht
Teaching Assistant: Youzhe Heng
The large-scale deployment of Internet-based services and the open nature of the Internet come alongside with the increase of security threats against existing services. As the size of the global network grows, the incentives of attackers to abuse the operation of online applications also increase and their advantage in mounting successful attacks becomes considerable.
These cyber-attacks often target the resources, availability, and operation of online services. In the recent years, a considerable number of online services such as Amazon, CNN, eBay, and Yahoo were hit by online attacks; the losses in revenues of Amazon and Yahoo were almost 1.1 million US dollars. With an increasing number of services relying on online resources, security becomes an essential component of every system.
This course aims to increase the security awareness of students and offers them a basic understanding with respect to a variety of interesting topics. After this course, students will be able to (1) learn about symmetric and asymmetric encryption schemes, (2) classify and describe vulnerabilities and protection mechanisms of popular network protocols, web protocols, and software systems (3) analyze / reason about basic protection mechanisms for modern OSs, software and hardware systems.
The final exam is a 90 minute written in-person exam. You may find up-to-date information on the exam schedule at https://portal2.uni-mannheim.de/portal2...flow. Please also check the “My Studies – My registrations” section in your student portal. The regular and re-sit exam dates, respectively, for the FSS 2024 will be made available as soon as they have been determined by the university administration.
Lectures by Prof. Arkmnecht (cf. Lecture Roadmap) are offered as inverted lectures, i.e., videos are available on ILIAS for self-study and you may ask questions about or discuss the topic on thursdays.
The exercise sessions are offered on-site only and take place on an almost bi-weekly basis. The exact schedule will be updated continuously. Please note that you need a laptop (or a comparable computing device) for some of the exercises. The exercise scoreboard can be found here: https://itsec.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/
Please register via Portal² to gain access to our ILIAS course in which you may find all lecture materials.
Once registered, you may access the course using the following URL: https://ilias.uni-mannheim.de/goto.php?target=crs_1475793
Date | Time | Room | Topics | Lecturers |
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Feb. 15 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Intro to and organization of this lecture | Armknecht |
Feb. 16 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Feb. 22 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Introduction | Armknecht |
Feb. 23 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Exercise Session 01 | Heng |
Feb. 29 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Access Control | Armknecht |
Mar. 01 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Exercise Session 02 | Heng |
Mar. 07 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Authentication | Armknecht |
Mar. 08 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | --- | --- |
Mar. 14 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Social Engineering | Armknecht |
Mar. 15 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Exercise Session 03 | Heng |
Mar. 21 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | E-Mail Security | Armknecht |
Mar. 22 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
Mar. 28 | --- | --- | /** Easter | --- |
Mar. 29 | --- | --- | * ... | --- |
Apr. 04 | --- | --- | * ... | --- |
Apr. 05 | --- | --- | * Break **/ | --- |
Apr. 11 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | --- | --- |
Apr. 12 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Vulnerabilities | Armknecht |
Apr. 18 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Malware | Armknecht |
Apr. 19 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Exercise Session 04 | Heng |
Apr. 25 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | WLAN Security | Armknecht |
Apr. 26 | --- | --- | --- | --- |
May 02 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Network Security | Armknecht |
May 03 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Exercise Session 05 | Heng |
May 09 | --- | --- | //Ascension Day (Public Holiday) | --- |
May 10 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Web Security | Armknecht |
May 16 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Bitcoin | Armknecht |
May 17 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Exercise Session 06 | Heng |
May 23 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | External speaker (Deutsche Bank) | |
May 24 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Exercise Session 07 | Heng |
May 30 | --- | --- | //Corpus Christi (Public Holiday) | --- |
May 31 | 13:45 – 15:15 | A5, B1.44 | Lecture and Q'n'A | All |