2021/2022: Segurança da Informação (Information Security) - 1º MCI

Event Calendar:
Date Week
day
Time Room Event
students
Comm.
1118.oct.21 - FEUP Beginning of 1st semester's classes of MCI 2021/22

26.oct2.nov.21 11h B006 Deadline for the assignment of the Mini-project's themes to groups of students Grps-Stds-Thms
23.nov.21
11h B006 Delivery of the specifications of the Mini-project Specifications
4.jan.22 11h Delivery of the final products of the Mini-project Products
Grades
21.jan.22 - FEUP End of 1st semester's classes of MCI 2021/22 Freq. grades
24.jan.22 11h30 B223 Exam of the Normal Call Grades
18.feb.22 11h30 B319 Exam of the Special Call Grades

Classes' Calendar:
W Date Week
day
Class
Type
Class
#
Summary #
stud
Doc. Comm.
1 19.oct.21 T 1 Presentation of the Course Unit.
Introduction to Information security.
14 chap.0
chap.1
chap.1Anx.
P 1 Practical work 0: "Introduction to FEUP's computer security services (and more)". 13 pw0
2 26.oct.21 T 2
Introduction to Information security (conc.).
Cryptography basics.
17 chap.2
P 2
Practical work 1: "Introduction to fingerprinting".
17 pw1+a1
[Assessment 1]
3 2.nov.21 T 3
Cryptography basics (cont.).
16 Deadline for the assignment of the Mini-projects's themes to groups.
P 3
Practical work 2: "Introduction to ciphering".
~16 pw2+a2 [Assessment 2 - graded]
4 9.nov.21 T 4 Cryptography basics (concl.).
12
P 4
Practical work 2: "Introduction to ciphering" (concl.).
~14
5 16.nov.21 T 5 Cryptography: keys. 12 chap.3
P 5 Practical work 3: "The almighty Digital Certificate".
15 pw3+a3 [Assessment 3 - graded]
6 23.nov.21 T 6 Cryptography: keys (conc.).
General protection techniques: integrity, confidentiality.
14 chap.4-1 Delivery of the specification of the Mini-projects.
P 6 Practical work 4: "Using digital certificates for securing email (S/MIME standard)".
~13 pw4+a4 [Assessment 4 - graded]
7 30.nov.21 T 7 General protection techniques: integrity, confidentiality (conc.). 10
P 7 Practical work 5: "Introduction to Steganography".
11 pw5+a5 [Assessment 5 - graded]
8 7.dec.21 T 8 General protection techniques: authentication. 7 chap.4-1.1
P 8 Practical work 6: "Password issues".
6 pw6+a6 [Assessment 6]
9 14.dec.21 T 9 General protection techniques (cont.): two case studies - SSH. 9 chap.4-2
P 9 Practical work 7: "Using Public-Key authentication to secure SSH file transfers".
10 pw7+a7 [Assessment 7 - graded]
21.dec.21 Christmas' Holidays
28.dec.21
10 4.jan.22 T 10 Presentation by the students of their mini-project's products.
[Remote class!]
19 Remote room: meet.google.com/yfu-okmq-ckxm
Delivery of the final product of the Mini-projects.
P 10 Presentation by the students of their mini-project's products (conc.).

Practical work 7: "Using Public-Key authentication to secure SSH file transfers" (conc.).
[Remote class!]

19
11 11.jan.22 T 11 General protection techniques (conc.): two case studies - OpenPGP.
Authorization and Access Control.
11 chap.5
P 11 Practical work 8: "Using PGP to secure email".
11 pw8+a8 [Assessment 8]
12 18.jan.22 T 12 Authorization and Access Control (conc.)
Protection of local systems.
6 chap.6
P 12 Practical work 9: "Protection from network sniffers".
8 pw9