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CSci-387 Data Security & Privacy

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Tuesday 06:10PM-08:40PM
2020 K, Room 25
Announcement:
The homework requirements and project presentation schedule are available here.
Slides for Weeks 1-8 and selected student presentations are available here.

Instructor:
Nan Zhang
Office: 715 Academic Center
Phone: (202) 994-5919
email: nzhang10 at gwu.edu
Office Hours: Tuesday 12:00pm - 2:00pm

Course Objective:
This is a seminar course on the current research and development of security and privacy issues in databases, data mining, and the WWW. We will cover the following topics: database access and inference control, privacy-preserving data publishing, secure data sharing, secure data outsourcing, privacy-preserving data mining and online analytical processing (OLAP), private information retrieval, digital rights management, and secure web services.

Textbook:
No textbook is required for the course.

Optional Readings:

  • Bishop, M., Computer Security: Art and Science, Addison-Wesley, 2003.
  • Goldreich, Foundations of Cryptography: Basic Tools, Cambridge Univ Press, 2001.
  • Pfleeger, C. P., Pfleeger, S. L., Security in Computing, 3rd ed., Prentice-Hall, 2002.
  • Anderson, R., Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, Wiley, 2001.

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