Secure software design

MTAT.03.246 Secure software design MTAT.03.247 Secure software design: Project work

Lectures: Wednesdays 10:00 Cyber-126.

Contact: margus at cyber.ee

Lecture slides:

• Introduction
• Multilevel security
• Multilateral security
• Estonian Health Information System
• Inference control in medicine
• Banking and bookkeeping, Home reading, starting from section 10.4
• Introduction to cryptography
• Coding Centre, Additional reading (in Estonian): description of coding centre, security analysis
• Strategies for developing secure software, Home reading
• Guidelines for developing secure software, part 2
• Human factors and security
• X-Road, Additional reading

Mandatory reading:

• Chapter 10 from "Security Engineering", starting from section 10.4
• Ross Anderson, "Programming Satan's Computer"

Recommended reading:

• Ross Anderson, "Security Engineering. A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems"
• Fraud. The Unmanaged Risk, 8th Global Survey
• Peter Gutmann, "The Design of a Cryptographic Security Architecture"
• RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
• Alma Whitten, J.D. Tygar, "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt: A Usability Evaluation of PGP 5.0"
• Kevin Mitnick, "The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security"
• David Maurer, "The Big Con: The Story of the Confidence Man"
• Arne Ansper, "e-Riigist andmeturbe seisukohalt"
• Arne Ansper, Ahto Buldas, Margus Freudenthal, Jan Willemson "Scalable and Efficient PKI for Inter-Organizational Communication"