General Information

General Information

Instructor

Matt Bishop; Email: mabishop@ucdavis.edu
Office: 2209 Watershed Sciences; Phone: (530) 752-8060
Office Hours: MW2:00–3:00pm; F1:00pm–2:00pm

Teaching Assistant

Brian Perry; Email: ecs153spring15@gmail.com
Office: 55 Kemper Hall
Office Hours: M3:10pm–4:00pm, W4:10pm–5:00pm, F2:10–3:00pm

Lectures

MWF 12:10pm–1:00pm in 6 Olson

Discussion Section

M 4:10pm–5:00pm in 1309 Surge III

Course Outline

Introduce principles, mechanisms, and implementations of computer security; learn how attacks work, how to defend against them, and how to design systems to withstand them

Course Goals

Some goals we hope you achieve:

Prerequisite

The prerequisites for this course are ECS 150, Operating Systems, and ECS 152A, Computer Networks. Students who have not taken these courses are at a serious disadvantage in this class, and will be dropped unless the instructor approves them taking the class.

Text

M. Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley, Boston, MA (2003). ISBN 0-201-44099-7.

Computers

All registered students have been given an account on the computer science instructional machines in the basement (the Computer Science Instructional Facility, CSIF).

Class Web Site

The class web site is on SmartSite. To access it, go to http://smartsite.ucdavis.edu and log in using your campus login and password. Then go to ECS 153 in your schedule. Announcements, assignments, handouts, and grades will be posted there, and you must submit assignments there. The alternate web site, http://nob.cs.ucdavis.edu/classes/ecs153-2015-02 has everything except grades, and you cannot submit work there.

Homework

All homework is due at 11:55pm on the date stated on the homework, unless otherwise specified. The handout All About Homework discusses homework.

Extra Credit

Extra credit is tallied separately from regular scores. It counts in your favor if you end up on a borderline between two grades at the end of the course. But, not doing extra credit will never be counted against you, because grades are assigned on the basis of regular scores. You should do extra credit if you find it interesting and think that it might teach you something. Remember, though, it is not wise to skimp on the regular assignment in order to do extra credit!

Exams

Midterm: Wednesday, April 29 in class
Final:Wednesday, June 10 at 6:00pm–8:00pm
These will be open book/open notes exams (but no computers are allowed). No early or late exam will be given; if you miss an exam for medical reasons (you must document this; no other excuses are acceptable), you may be allowed or required to take a make-up exam, or the other parts of the course will be counted proportionally more (the choice is the instructor’s). In particular, forgetting the time or place of an exam is not an excuse for missing it!

Grading

Homework 25% Midterm Exam 25%
Programs 25% Final Exam 25%

Academic Integrity

The UC Davis Code of Academic Conduct, available at http://sja.ucdavis.edu/cac.html, applies to this class. In particular, for this course: A good analogy between appropriate discussion and inappropriate collaboration is the following: you and a fellow student work for competing software companies developing different products to meet a given specification. You and your competitor might choose to discuss product specifications and general techniques employed in your products, but you certainly would not discuss or exchange proprietary information revealing details of your products. Ask the instructor for clarification beforehand if the above rules are not clear.
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