Systems Security

This class is focused on security at system level. The pervasive diffusion of computing systems in our everyday lives made security one of the most important extra-functional properties that designers have to provide and ensure. This course introduces to student attacks against various types of system and presents to them dedicated countermeasures. The course consists of two parts. On the one, more focused on the threat part, students learn side channel attacks, the problems of security in cyber-physical systems and in the cloud. On the other, more focused on the protection part, the students learn how to counteract the threat seen in the first part of the course and will learn privacy preserving technologies, access control system, trusted execution environment, and efficient implementation of cryptography primitives.

Teach students the main threats to system security and the related mitigation techniques / countermeasures

In presence

Lecture, exercises, self-study, guest lectures, labs

Written exam (that will be held electronically) + assignments
Students are allowed to keep a single A4 sheet with notes (both front and back of the sheet can be used)