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
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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