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Course Outline

COURSE OUTLINE

Course Code:                  IT7102/ LLW7101

Course Name:               ICT policy and Cyber Laws

Course Level:                                 7

Credit Units:                   4 CUs (Credit Hours = 60 hours)

 

Description

In this modern era of computer domination, the safety and security of computer and internet is highly essential. Most of the work today is done with the help of computers and internet. Under such circumstance, the course like IT policy and Cyber laws becomes extremely important. Under this course a student is taught various ways in which the internet and the cyber world can be made more safe and secure. The security of the cyber world depends on the level of security that keeps the flaw away. Under this course the ways to keep data protected from being tampered or from being theft is taught. Special care is taken in the modes of security under this course. Since it is a master level course, the knowledge and the methods are more deep and detailed.

 

Objectives

By the end of the course, learners shall be able to:

1.        Apply principles of Cyber Security

2.       Identify security flaws

3.        Explain hardware-software security measures

4.       Explain types of cryptography

5.        Conduct software integration testing

6.       Apply biometric techniques

7.        Recognize common testing frameworks employed in industry

8.       Communicate Cyber Security matters with programmers, managers, and clients effectively

9.       Coordinate implementation effort for network attacks and defence and e-commerce systems

 

Detailed Course Content

1.                    The Cyber Space

2.                    Reports from ITU, UNCTAD, World Bank, OECD and WEF on ICT Policy, as well as the ones from UN-DESA and Freedom House

3.                    International Cooperation in Cybercrime:

3.1                 Child Abuse and Protection;

3.2                Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiatives;

3.3                 ITU Huddle Content Collaboration;

3.4           Cybercrime Criminal Justice Network

4.                     (E.g., Child Abuse and Protection; Commonwealth Cybercrime Initiatives; ITU Huddle Content Collaboration; Cybercrime Criminal Justice Network;)

5.                    Cybercrime and Terrorism

6.                    Cyber Warfare

7.                    Critical Information Infrastructure Protection

8.                    National ICT Policies

9.                    ICT Policy in institutions

10.                 IT Security:

10.1             Security of Operating Systems: E.g., Unix Operating System Security, Windows NT, Capabilities,

10.2             Management Issues: Organisational Issues: Policy Issues

10.3             Data Protection

10.4             Hardware protection, other technical Attacks.

10.5             Cryptography & PKI: Symmetric Cryptography, Asymmetric Cryptography,

10.6             Keys, Hash Functions, Digital Signatures.

10.7             Distributed Systems - Concurrency, Fault Tolerance and Fault Recovery, Naming.

10.8             Multilevel and Multilateral Security: Multilevel Security, Multilateral Security

10.9             Electronic Banking Systems

10.10          Monitoring Systems –Introduction, Alarms, Prepayment Masters.

10.11          Biometrics: Physiological biometric techniques, behavioural biometric techniques

10.12          New biometric techniques, biometric systems

10.13          Incident Response Incident Response, Prerequisites to planning an IRT.

10.14          Network attack and Defence: Most Common Attacks, Scripts Kiddies and Packaged Defence.

10.15          Protecting E-commerce Systems

10.16          Hacking - At least Two Case Studies on each topic.

 

Model Delivery

Lectures (45 LH) and Practical (30 PH)

 

Assessment

Continuous assessment                               50%

Final exams                                                      50%

 

References

Cyber Laws – Singh Yatindra

Cyber Crime – Bansal S K

Cyber Law, E-commerce & M-Commerce – Ahmand Tabrez

Handbook of Cyber and E-commerce Laws – Bakshi P M & Suri R K

 

 

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