Lecture 1: September 25, 2019

Reading: text, §1
Due: October 9, 2019


  1. Greetings and felicitations!
    1. About the class
  2. Basic components of computer security
    1. Confidentiality
    2. Integrity
    3. Availability
  3. Classes of threats
    1. Disclosure
    2. Deception
    3. Disruption
    4. Usurpation
  4. Policy vs. mechanism
    1. Policy
    2. Mechanism
  5. Goals of security
    1. Prevention
    2. Detection
    3. Recovery
  6. Trust and Assumptions
  7. Types of mechanisms: secure, precise, broad
  8. Assurance
    1. Specification
    2. Design
    3. Implementation
    4. Maintenance and operation
  9. Human issues
    1. Organizational problems
    2. People problems

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ECS 153, Computer Security
Version of September 24, 2019 at 4:39PM

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