• 4/27/12 - Here are solved sample finals one and two.
• 4/19/12 - Final exam will be on may 4, 8-9:20 am in GFS 101. Here are two sample finals: one and two for you to practice. We will go through them in class on 4/27. Here is the final reading list.
• 4/19/12 - Quiz 8 is posted on DEN with the due date of 4/27. Take it after you do the Forensics lab.
• 4/10/12 - Quizzes 6 and 7 are posted on DEN with the due dates of 4/21 and 4/16 respectively. Quiz 6 should be taken after you perform the Tunnels and VPNs lab, and quiz 7 should be taken before you perform the Forensics lab.
• 4/6/12 - Quiz 5 is posted on DEN with the due date of 4/11. Take it before you do the Tunnels and VPNs lab.
• 4/6/12 - No class today.
• 4/3/12 - Quiz 4 is posted on DEN with the due date of 4/11. Take it after you do the ARP Spoofing lab.
• 4/2/12 - This is the schedule for student presentations:

  Last Name	Report	Date
  Agarwal		2	4/13	
  Alabdulkarim	3	4/20
  Anbazhagan	2	4/13
  Berti		3	4/20
  B'far		4	4/20
  Bhattacharyya	3	4/20
  Bloching	2	4/13
  Chanchairoek	3	4/20
  Chiwane		2	4/13
  Desai		1	4/13
  Dong		2	4/13
  Khedkar		3	4/20
  Kirkpatrick	2	4/13
  Magar		1	4/13
  Manikonda	4	4/20
  Manyiel		4	4/20
  Meeker		1	4/13
  Mehrotra	4	4/20
  Ogasian		1	4/13
  Rangaraju	4	4/20
  Singh		3	4/20
  	

• 3/9/12 - Here is the midterm grading criteria.
• 3/9/12 - Quiz 2 is posted on DEN with the due date of 3/16. Take it after you do the Firewalls lab.
• 3/2/12 - Quiz 1 is posted on DEN with the due date of 3/7. Take it before you do the Firewalls lab.
• 2/24/12 - The official due date for report 2 stays on 3/2 but anyone can have a no-penalty 1-week grace period if they like. The rest of the reports are due as shown on this Web page.
• 2/24/12 - Solved versions of sample midterm 1 and sample midterm 2. The blue text is optional - does not carry points.
• 2/16/12 - Sample midterm 1 and Sample midterm 2 are posted. Midterm reading list is posted too.
• 2/16/12 - All paper reports are due by midnight PST on the day shown in the calendar.
• 1/20/12 - Office hours changed for Jelena, for today only. They will be 1-2 pm.

• Instructor:
  Prof Jelena Mirkovic (Contact: sunshine@isi.edu, she will respond within 24 h),
  Office hours: F 12:30-1:30 pm and by appointment in SAL 234
  
• TA:
  Melina Demertzi (demertzi@usc.edu)
  Office hours: Tu and We 10-11 am in SAL 229
• Lab instructor:
  David Morgan (davidmor@usc.edu)
  Office hours: By appointment only
• Lab grader:
  Simon Woo (simonwoo@usc.edu)

• Describe and assess a broad range of security problems and solutions
• Understand the fundamental mathematics and engineering underlying security systems
• Judge the suitability of security systems for various applications
• Know how to develop new security systems and features

• Please make sure you read the Academic Integrity Policy of this course.

• Matt Bishop, Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley, 2002.

1. Cryptography, authentication, authorization or policy (choose one topic from these four)
2. Denial of service
3. Botnets
4. Privacy

Each time you will need to select a paper that fits the following criteria:

• Deals with the chosen topic
• Published in the last five years
• Published in one of the following venues: Sigcomm, Infocom, ACM CCS, Usenix Security Symposium, NDSS, NSDI, IEEE Transactions on Secure and Dependable Computing, IEEE Transactions on Networking

• Summary of the problem addressed by the paper
• Why is this an important problem
• Why is this a difficult problem
• A short description of the solution proposed in the paper
• Summary of the evaluation strategy presented in the paper to test the proposed solution, and summary of results
• Your opinion of the proposed solution
• Your ideas for improvement of the proposed solution or for a different approach to solve the problem in question

For the reports students may receive an automatic extension of 48 hours total that may be applied across all four assignments. If you turn in one of your assignments 8 hours late, then you will only have 40 hours remaining in extensions to use on subsequent assignments. I suggest not using the whole 48 hours on the first assignment, because if you have an unforseen scheduling issue arises later in the semester, it will be your problem. Late assignments (beyond any extension) will be assesed 20 point penalty (out of max 100 points per assignment) per day they are late.