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Cyber Security Essentials
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
The University of Texas at Dallas
Introduction to the Course
Course Outline
 May 31: Introduction to Security, Malware
 June 7: Security Governance and Risks / Data mining overview
 June 14: Access Control / Access control and policy for data
management /Data Mining for Security
 June 21: Security architecture / Access control for web services and
the cloud/Identity Management
 June 28: Cryptography / Identity Management / Exam #1 Review
 July 5: Exam #1 / Guest Lecture
 July 12: Network Security / Secure XML Publishing
 July 19: Data and Applications Security / Secure Data Architectures;
/ Assured Cloud Computing / Securing Social Networks
 July 26: Legal Aspects/Forensics / Privacy Preserving Data
Mining/Operations Security/Disaster Planning / Physical Security/
 Papers presented / Insider Threat/Review for Exam #2
 August 9: Exam #2
Text Book
 CISSP All-in-One Exam Guide, Fifth Edition
 Author: Shon Harris
 Hardcover: 1216 pages
 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 5 edition (January 15, 2010)
 Language: English
 ISBN-10: 0071602178
 ISBN-13: 978-0071602174
Course Rules
 Unless special permission is obtained from the instructor, each
student will work individually.
 Copying material from other sources will not be permitted unless the
source is properly referenced.
 Any student who plagiarizes from other sources will be reported to
the Computer Science department and any other committees as
advised by the department
 No copying of anything from a paper except for about 10 words in
quotes. No copying of figure even if it is attributed. You have to draw
all figures.
 COURSE ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY
Course Plan
 Exam #1: 20 points – July 5
 Exam #2: 20 points - August 9
 Two term papers 10 points each: Total 20 points
- June 28, July 27
 Programming project : 20 points
- August 2
 Two Assignments: 10 points each: Total: 20 points
- June 21, July 19
Assignment #1
 Explain with examples the following
- Discretionary access control
- Mandatory access control
- Role-based access control (RBAC)
- Privacy aware role based access control
- Temporal role based access control
- Risk aware role-based access control
- Attribute-based access control
- Usage control (UCON)
Assignment #2
 Suppose you are give the assignment of the Chief Security Officer of
a major bank (e.g., Bank of America) or a Major hospital (e.g.,
Massachusetts General)
 Discuss the steps you need to take with respect to the following (you
need to keep the following in mining: Confidentiality, Integrity and
Availability;; you also need to understand the requirements of
banking or healthcare applications and the policies may be:
- Information classification
- Risk analysis
- Secure networks
- Secure data management
- Secure applications
Term Papers
 Write two papers on any topic discussed in class (that is, any of the
10 CISSP modules)
Sample format - 1
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Survey topics – e..g, access control models
 Analysis (compare the models)
 Future Directions
 References
Sample format - 2
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Literature survey and what are the limitations
 Your own approach and why it is better
 Future Directions
 References
Contact
 For more information please contact
- Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
- Professor of Computer Science and
- Director of Cyber Security Research Center Erik Jonsson School
of Engineering and Computer Science EC31, The University of
Texas at Dallas Richardson, TX 75080
- Phone: 972-883-4738
- Fax: 972-883-2399
- Email: [email protected]
- URL:
- http://www.utdallas.edu/~bxt043000/
Project
 Software
 Design document
- Project description
- Architecture (prefer with a picture) and description (software –
e.g., Oracle, Jena etc.)
- Results
- Analysis
- Potential improvements
- References
Sample projects
 Risk analysis tool
 Query modification for XACML
 Data mining tool for malware
 Trust management system
    -
Paper: Original – you can use material from
sources, reword (redraw) and give reference
 Abstract
 Introduction
 Body of the paper
- Comparing different approaches and analyzing
- Discuss your approach,
- Survey
 Conclusions
 References
- ([1]. [2], - - -[THUR99].
- Embed the reference also within the text.
- E.g., Tim Berners Lee has defined the semantic web to be -[2].
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Papers to read for Exam #1
 Identity Management
- David W. Chadwick, George Inman: Attribute Aggregation in
Federated Identity Management. IEEE Computer 42(5): 33-40
(2009)
 Role-based Access control
- Ravi S. Sandhu, Edward J. Coyne, Hal L. Feinstein, Charles E.
Youman: Role-Based Access Control Models. IEEE Computer
29(2): 38-47 (1996)
 Usage Control
- First 20 pages or so of
- Jaehong Park, Ravi S. Sandhu: The UCONABC usage control
model. ACM Trans. Inf. Syst. Secur. 7(1): 128-174 (2004)
Papers to read for Exam #1
 Dissemination Control
- Roshan K. Thomas, Ravi S. Sandhu: Towards a Multidimensional Characterization of Dissemination Control. POLICY
2004: 197-200Role-based Access control
Index to Exam #1
 Lecture 3: Information Security Governance, Risk (Q1)
 Lecture 5:Data Mining for Malware Detection (Q2)
 Lecture 6: Access Control (Q3)
 Lecture 7: Access Control in Data Management Systems (Q4)
- Also includes the 3 papers on role based access control, Usage
control and dissemination control (Q5)
 Lecture 8: Security Architecture and Design (Q6)
 Lecture 9: Security for SOA/Web Services (Q7)
 Lecture 10: Secure Cloud Computing (Q8)
 Lecture 12: Cryptography (Q9)
 Lecture 14: Charts on Identity Management (based on Identity
Management paper) (Q10)
 Extra credit 2 questions
Papers to read for Exam #2
 Security and Privacy for Social Networks
- Jack Lindamood, Raymond Heatherly, Murat Kantarcioglu,
Bhavani M. Thuraisingham: Inferring private information using
social network data. WWW 2009: 1145-1146
- Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Raymond Heatherly, Murat
Kantarcioglu, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham: A semantic web based
framework for social network access control. SACMAT 2009:
177-186
 Secure XML Publishing
- Elisa Bertino, Barbara Carminati, Elena Ferrari, Bhavani M.
Thuraisingham, Amar Gupta: Selective and Authentic ThirdParty Distribution of XML Documents. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data
Eng. 16(10): 1263-1278 (2004)
Papers to read for Exam #2
 Assuring Information Sharing in the Cloud
- Tyrone Cadenhead, Murat Kantarcioglu, Vaibhav
Khadilkar, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham: Design and
Implementation of a Cloud-Based Assured Information Sharing
System. 36-50
 Papers presented by the TA – posted in Lecture 16 (July 5, 2013)
Large-scale Plagiarism Detection and Authorship attribution
- (1) Juxtapp: A Scalable System for Detecting Code Reuse
Among Android Applications
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http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/2012%20juxtapp
_dimva12.pdf
(2) On the Feasibility of Internet-Scale Author Identification
http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~dawnsong/papers/2012%20On%20t
he%20Feasibility%20of%20InternetScale%20Author%20Identification.pdf
Papers to read for Exam #2
 Privacy
- Rakesh Agrawal, Ramakrishnan Srikant: Privacy-Preserving
Data Mining. SIGMOD Conference 2000: 439-450 (presented
August 2, 2-13, posted Lecture 27)
 Overview of patents, trademarks, copyright, trade secret - - posted
Lecture 26 (presented August 2, 2013)
 Insider Threat Detection (Lecture 28)
- Pallabi Parveen, Jonathan Evans, Bhavani M. Thuraisingham,
Kevin W. Hamlen, Latifur Khan: Insider Threat Detection Using
Stream Mining and Graph Mining. SocialCom/PASSAT 2011:
1102-1110
Index to Exam #2
 Lecture 11: Assured Cloud Computing for Information Sharing
 Lecture 15: Telecommunications and Network Security
 Lecture 16: Two papers presented by TA on July 5
Large-scale Plagiarism Detection and Authorship
attribution
 Lecture 17: Data and Applications Development Security
 Lecture 18:/Multilevel Secure Data Mgmt/Secure Data Architectures
 Lecture 19: Security and Privacy in Social Networks
 Lecture 20: Legal, Regulations, Compliance and Investigations
 Lecture 21: Physical (Environmental) Security
 Lecture 22: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Planning
 Lecture 23: Operations Security
Index to Exam #2 (Concluded)
 Lecture 24: Digital Forensics
 Lecture 25: Privacy
 Lecture 26 – Patents, Trademarks, Copyright, Trade secret
 Lecture 27 – Privacy preserving data mining
 Lecture 28 – Insider Threat detection
 Lecture 29 – Cyber Operations