Lecture 1 Overview
Lecture 1 Overview
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Lecture 1 Introduction
The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
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Background
Information Security requirements have changed in recent times traditionally provided by physical and administrative mechanisms computer use requires automated tools to protect files and other stored information use of networks and communications links requires measures to protect data during transmission
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Definitions
Computer Security - generic name for the collection of tools designed to protect data and to thwart hackers Network Security - measures to protect data during their transmission Internet Security - measures to protect data during their transmission over a collection of interconnected networks
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Aim of Course
our focus is on Internet Security consists of measures to deter, prevent, detect, and correct security violations that involve the transmission of information
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Information security
Assets Threats Attacks Vulnerabilities Controls
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Security components
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Also known as security goals, objectives, etc. Confidentiality Data integrity Origin integrity (aka. Authenticity) Non-repudiability Availability
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Security Service
is something that enhances the security of the data processing systems and the information transfers of an organization intended to counter security attacks make use of one or more security mechanisms to provide the service replicate functions normally associated with physical documents
eg have signatures, dates; need protection from disclosure, tampering, or destruction; be notarized or witnessed; be recorded or licensed
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Security Mechanism
a mechanism that is designed to detect, prevent, or recover from a security attack no single mechanism that will support all functions required however one particular element underlies many of the security mechanisms in use: cryptographic techniques hence our focus on this area
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Security Attack
any action that compromises the security of information owned by an organization information security is about how to prevent attacks, or failing that, to detect attacks on information-based systems have a wide range of attacks can focus of generic types of attacks note: often threat & attack mean same
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Security Attacks
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Security Services
X.800 defines it as: a service provided by a protocol layer of communicating open systems, which ensures adequate security of the systems or of data transfers RFC 2828 defines it as: a processing or communication service provided by a system to give a specific kind of protection to system resources X.800 defines it in 5 major categories
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Summary
have considered:
computer, network, internet security defs security services, mechanisms, attacks X.800 standard models for network (access) security
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