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Matt Bishop Office: 2209 Watershed Sciences Phone: +1 (530) 752-8060 Email: mabishop@ucdavis.edu |
Version of January 3, 2021 at 3:32PM
This syllabus is tentative will undoubtedly change as the quarter progresses. If there is a topic you’re interested in but not shown, please let me know; I may well change things to cover it. All readings are from the texts unless otherwise indicated. I will assign papers as the course progresses.
| Week 1: | Dates: Jan 4, Jan 6, Jan 8 Topics: Reference monitor, access control matrix, safety question Reading: text, §2, 3–3.2, 20.1.2.2 |
| Week 2: | Dates: Jan 11, Jan 13, Jan 15 Topics: Take-Grant Protection Model, security policies, confidentiality policies, Bell-LaPadula Model Reading: text, §3.3, 4, 5–5.2, A |
| Week 3: | Dates: Jan 18, Jan 20, Jan 22 [Jan 18: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (university holiday)] Topics: Bell-LaPadula Model, tranquility, System Z, integrity models Reading: text, §5, 6.1 Due: Jan 22: homework 1; Jan 22: project selection |
| Week 4: | Dates: Jan 25, Jan 27, Jan 29 Topics: Biba, Clark-Wilson, trust models, availability models Reading: text, §6.2, 6.4–6.5, 7 |
| Week 5: | Dates: Feb 1, Feb 3, Feb 5 Topics: hybrid models, Chinese Wall model, CISS model, ORCON, RBAC Reading: text, §8 Due: Feb 5: homework 2 |
| Week 6: | Dates: Feb 8, Feb 10, Feb 12 Topics: Basic policy composition, noninterference Reading: text, §9.1–9.2 Due: Feb 12: project progress report |
| Week 7: | Dates: Feb 15, Feb 17, Feb 19 [Feb 15: President’ Day (university holiday)] Topics: Unwinding theorem, nondeducibility, restrictiveness, side channels Reading: text, §9.2–9.6 Due: Feb 19: homework 3 |
| Week 8: | Dates: Feb 22, Feb 24, Feb 26 Topics: Information flow mechanisms, confinement problem Reading: text, §17, 18.1 |
| Week 9: | Dates: Mar 1, Mar 3, Mar 5 Topics: Isolation, covert channel analysis Reading: §18.2–18.3 |
| Week 10: | Dates: Mar 8, Mar 10, Mar 12 [Mar 12 is last class] Topics: Principles of secure design, introduction to assurance Reading: §14, 19 Due: Mar 15: homework 4 |
| Mar 18: | Due: Completed project due at 3:00pm |
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ECS 235B, Foundations of Computer and Information Security Version of January 3, 2021 at 3:32PM
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