Course Support Materials
Project Support: This document describes support available to instructors for assigning projects to students.
Cryptography and Network Security. Seventh Edition by William Stallings (Pearson, 2014). This textbook places greater emphasis on cryptography and network security issues as opposed to computer security issues. For instructors and students, there is a technical resource and course page to supplement the book.
Errata sheet: Latest list of errors, updated at most monthly. File name is Errata-CompSec4e-mmyy. If you spot any errors, please contact me at . So far, no errors reported.
SEED Projects: A wide variety of security education projects, organized by the chapters of the book.
The Matasano Crypto Challenges: A collection of 48 exercises that demonstrate attacks on real-world crypto systems and applications. They're derived from weaknesses in real-world systems and modern cryptographic constructions. You are given you enough info to learn about the underlying crypto concepts yourself. When you're finished, you'll not only have learned a good deal about how cryptosystems are built, but you'll also understand how they're attacked. All of the work is done in the programming language of your choice. This is an excellent supplemental learning tool.
OpenSecurity Training: Contains slide decks, do-it-yourself programming assignments, and projects that can help the student learn a number of computer security concepts.
Security Cards: A fun introduction to commonly-used terms and concepts in computer security.
Computer Science Student Resource Site: Help and advice for the long-suffering, overworked student.
Webcasts for Teaching Computer Security: A catalog of webcast sites that can be used to enhance a computer security course.
A Discussion of Textbook Cost Myths: From the Text and Academic Authors Association.
Computer Security Courses
Instructors might find these web sites for courses taught using this book useful. We would appreciate hearing about web sites for other courses.
CS 600.443: Security and Privacy in Computing Johns Hopkins University.
COMP 4108 - Computer Systems Security Carleton University.
Cyber-Security - ZEIT8104 University of New South Wales.
CSEN 1001 Computer and Network Security German University in Cairo.
CMPS 5363/4663: Computer Security Midwestern State University.
CIS 4550 Networked Information Systems Security Zicklin School of Business - Baruch College.
Computer Security - Datasäkerhet, dasakh11 KTH Sveriges Största Tekniska Universitet (KTH Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm. Includes slides.
IST 451 Network Security Penn State U.
IT 4823 – Information Security Administration Southern Polytechnic State U., includes podcasts, sample exams.
EECS710: Information Security and Assurance U. of Kansas.
CSPP56510 – Information Technology Security: U. of Chicago. Contains useful links.