Course overview
The course aims to introduce senior undergraduates and early postgraduates in telecommunications engineering to methods of system security and data security. For system security, students will be acquainted with the principles of information assurance as well as frameworks of threat analysis and threat mitigation (e.g., MITRE ATT&CK, NIST Cybersecurity Framework). For data security, students will be trained in the applications of cryptography to data confidentiality, data integrity, source authentication and nonrepudiation. Students will also analyse how Shor’s algorithm hastens the development of post-quantum cryptography.