TDDE62 · 6 credits · Advanced level (A1N) · Informationsteknologi, Datateknik, Datavetenskap
Information Security: Privacy, System and Network Security
Active · next start VT 2027
72%
passed the latest ordinary exam
TEN1 · 25 Mar 2026 · 67 students
63%
passed the ordinary exams, all sittings over the last 5 years
TEN1 · 153 students
89%
Harder than 89% of courses at advanced level
Compared with 285 courses at the same level, ordinary exams over the last three academic years. 112 students.
Part of 5 programmes
Exam
TEN1 Written examination
- 5
- 4
- 3
- U
Ordinary exams
63% passed · 153 students
- 72%67
- 60%45
- 54%41
Re-exams
49% passed · 77 students
- 88%8
- 75%20
- 18%11
- 25%16
- 56%9
- 38%13
- Pass the re-exam: 49% (77 students), compared with 63% (153 students) on the ordinary exam
- Get 4 or 5: 23% (230 students)
Other modules
Partial exams, hand-ins and labs. They are not part of the figures at the top.
Hand-in or lab
LAB1 Laboratory work and written assignments
- G
Main rounds
100% passed · 99 students
- 100%57
- 100%42
Later rounds
100% passed · 45 students
- 100%25
- 100%20
- Pass a later round: 100% (45 students), compared with 100% (99 students) on the ordinary exam
Show small sittings (7)
Sittings with fewer than 5 students, often credit transfers or special sittings. They are not part of any figure on this page.
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About the course
Aim
The course aims to provide deepened knowledge about both typical security threats against computer systems and networks, and about methods for mitigating such threats. The course also covers methods and techniques for ensuring user privacy in computer systems and networks. After passing the course, a student should be able to:
- explain and use the security terminology and security principles presented in the course
- in a given context,identify security weaknesses in a given system or network,identify, and explain in detail, the security threats against the system or network,suggest suitable technologies, methods, or design decisions for mitigating the security threats against the system or network
- explain and apply the techniques and methods covered in the course for ensuring user privacy
- using some selected technologies, design and implement solutions to given security problems, based on a set of security requirements.
Content
Network security:
- Network design for security
- Weaknesses in, and attacks against, common network protocols and technologies
- Technologies for secure communication
- Technologies for detection and prevention of intrusions (firewalls, IDS, etc.)
System security:
- Security architecture and access control in modern computer systems
- Attacks against hardware and system software
- Common techniques used in malware, and techniques for detection and defense against malware
Privacy:
- Important terminology, definitions, and models within the area of privacy
- Techniques and methods for ensuring privacy in digital communication
- Privacy and anonymity in big data processing and databases
- Examiner
- Gurjot Singh
- Scheduled hours
- 46 h
- Main field of study
- Informationsteknologi, Datateknik, Datavetenskap