Introduction to IT-Operations and Information Security

Part I: IT preliminaries
-Computer principles
-Network and data communications
-Command line interfaces

Part II: Information security principles
-Overview: history and concepts
-Legal and ethical issues
-Risk management
-Information security planning (standards, best practice, and continuity strategies)
-VPN, firewall, and intrusion detection
-Authentication, identity management, privacy enhancing technologies
-Database and cloud security
-Cryptography
-Physical security
-Usability issues
-Human factors (organizational and culture aspects) in deploying information security
-Implementation and maintenance (software security, hardware security, system auditing and forensics, information security certifications)

Knowledge:
-Basic IT concepts and methodologies
-History, terms, concepts, threats, attacks, and controls about information security
-Legal/ethic, technical, organizational, and cultural aspects of information security
-Best practices in security planning and management

Skills:
-Basic practical skills for IT operations
-Methodologies for information security project planning, implementation, and management
-Ability to identify potential security threats and to identify the correct information resource to address the threats
-Basic communications skills in explaining the problem and presenting the security plan
-Basic skill in literature and status survey and report writing

General competence:
-Are aware of relevant professional, legal and ethical issues
-Can carry out and document work independently in keeping with academic practice
-Can convey technical material both written and oral
-Students should be familiar with basic methods of thinking and innovation

-Lectures
-Group work