Networks and Services - Information Security, Specialization Project

The specialization project consists of one term project of 15 SP.

A. Knowledge:
1) In depth knowledge about the design principles and security modelling of information security in the selected project topic.
2) In depth understanding of selected security and cryptographic mechanisms and policies.

B. Skills:
1) The student will learn how to acquire specialized knowledge in a selected theme or problem within the field of information security.
2) The student will learn to apply scientific work methods for gaining knowledge of principles, methods, protocols, algorithms and contemporary tools for securing information in distributed systems and telecommunication networks. The tasks include searching for and selecting relevant literature and other sources of information, then combine this with own knowledge.

C. General competence:
1) The student will also learn how to carry out an individual technical project, by presenting a project plan with milestones, report partial results on a regular basis, and write a project report in accordance with accepted standards.

Individual (or group) project work with supervision.