Outline for April 4, 2000
- Greetings and Felicitations
- Review general information
- Basic components
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Availability
- Threats
- snooping
- modification
- masquerading; contrast with delegation
- repudiation of origin
- denial of receipt
- delay
- denial of service
- Role of policy
- example of student copying files from another
- emphasize: policy defines security
- distinguish between policy and mechanism
- Goals of security
- prevention
- detection
- recovery
- Trust
- hammer this home: all security rests on trust
- first problem: security mechanisms correctly implement security policy; walk through example of a program that logs you in; point out what is trusted
- second problem: policy does what you want; define secure, precise
- Operational issues; change over time
- cost-benefit analysis
- risk analysis (comes into play in cost-benefit too)
- laws and customs
- Human Factors
- organizational problems
- people problems (include social engineering)
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Department of Computer Science
University of California at Davis
Davis, CA 95616-8562
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