Course overview
This course aims to provide foundational training in methods of hardware-based security for securing telecommunication devices and methods of network security for securing telecommunication networks.
Course learning outcomes
- Discuss common hardware-level vulnerabilities, attacks, and defences applicable to telecommunication devices
- Apply secure hardware technologies to protection of code integrity and data integrity in telecommunication devices
- Discuss common vulnerabilities, attacks and defences at the physical layer and data-link layer of a network protocol stack
- Discuss Diffie-Hellman key exchange, Transport Layer Security (TLS), post-quantum cryptography and discrete-variable quantum key distribution in terms of their principles and their roles in securing end-to-end communications
Availability
Class details
Mawson Lakes
Class number 25340
Section PR01
Size 20
Available 20
Class number 25341
Section WS01
Size 20
Available 20
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 25343
Section PR01
Size 32
Available 32
Class number 25345
Section WS01
Size 30
Available 30
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