| Level | Postgraduate
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| ECTS Credits | 10
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| Duration | 1 semester (Autumn) |
| Language | Norwegian
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| Prerequisite(s) | 40 ECTS from Master of Information Security |
| Aim | Give the students an increased understanding of
• How to formulate and measure security related requirements.
• What degrees of security/compliance are conceivable.
• How can compliance be documented.
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| Content | • Motivation – security in an economic, psychological and sociologic context.
• Controversy with respect to the concept of security metrics.
• Measuring security – scales, reliability and validity.
• A taxonomy for security metrics.
• Method – How to identify and define security metrics.
• Theory for modelling and analysis of adversary activities.
• Examples of security indicators/metrics.
• Experiments as an approach of analyzing security.
• Analysis of the security of methods of human authentication using different flavours of passwords.
• Toolsupport.
• State of the art/ Research challenges – overview of issues discussed on some relevant workshops.
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| Study Methods | Lectures, Project Works, Seminars, Exercises |
| Assessment | Written Exam, 3 hours (counts 40%)
Project Work (counts 40%)
Assignment(s) (counts 20%)
Assignments = Seminar presentation |
| Grading System | Alphabetical Scale, A (best) - F (fail)
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| Course Requirements | Project |
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