CS 577 - Cybersecurity Lab

Course Overview:

Instructor:

Dr. Sven Dietrich (spock AT cs DOT stevens DOT edu)
Office hours: Thursdays before class, and by appointment. Babbio 635.

TA: Ruilin Liu


Prerequisites:


• CS 506 and (CS 590, CS 385, or CS 182)
• Co-requisite: CS 576
  
• or permission of the instructor



Textbook and Resources:


Computer Security - Principles and Practice, by William Stallings, Lawrie Brown
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional, 2008


Other recommended books and resources:

"Internet Denial of Service: Attack and Defense Mechanisms," by Jelena Mirkovic, Sven Dietrich, David Dittrich, and Peter Reiher.


Emulab, a virtual testing environment, and its security sibling DETER.

Projects/Programming:

Grading:


• Quizzes (unannounced): 20% 
• Labs: 20%
  
• Midterm project/presentation: 20%
• Final project/presentation: 30 %
• Class participation/peer review: 10%
  

Policies:

• No cell phones should be used in class. They should be off or on silent.
• Laptops, handhelds, or other electronic devices should not be used in class, unless explicitly required for the coursework.
  
• A make-up exam will be granted only if:
•  the instructor is notified BEFORE  the exam
  
• AND
  
• there is serious illness or similarly important reason for missing that day.
• No make-up quizzes.
  
• For fairness to all students there will be no individual extra credit work.
• Assignments are due before the lecture begins at 6:15pm. After 6:15pm, 25% will be deducted from your grade. For assignments late more than one (two) day(s), 50% (75%) will be deducted. No credit will be given for assignments that are more than 3 days late. Exceptions may be granted only if there is an important reason. Exceptions must be cleared with the instructor in advance. If you must miss a class at which an assignment is due, you may email your assignment to the instructor timestamped BEFORE it is due. When assignments are due via Stevens eLearn, the eLearn timestamp is authoritative.
  
• You may collaborate on projects with your fellow students to a limited degree. I.e., you may discuss concept clarifications with other students, but the specific details of your projects must be your own work.
• You must specify in writing any resources (web, books etc.) other than the textbook that you used for completing the assignments.
• It is cheating to collaboratively work out a detailed solution, to copy a solution from another student or some other resource without specifying it, or to give away a solution. Plagiarism checkers such as TurnItIn may be used by the instructor.
  
• Self-plagiarism is considered cheating.
  
• ALL parties involved in a case of cheating get an automatic grade of zero (0) in the assignment/exam. Repeated cases get an F in the course. Any case of cheating will be reported to the honor board or the Dean of the Graduate School.
• Most exercises/labs in this course are considered "red-team exercises" that could be harmful to production networks. They are for in-class use only. Do not apply these techniques outside of the experiment environment (such as DETER) without proper (and written) authorization.



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