IN4210 – Network and Communications Security

After completing this course

• you will have knowledge about cryptographic foundations of network and communications security
• you will be able to manage cryptographic keys, certificates and crypto parameters
• you will understand network/communication security protocols
• you will be able to configure network perimeter security and security monitoring
• you will have knowledge about security of global, local and wireless networks
• you will be able to present a given subject (e.g. "IoT security") in a structured way to others

Students who are admitted to study programmes at UiO must each semester register which courses and exams they wish to sign up for in Studentweb.

IN4210 is limited to 70 students.

If the number of enrolled students is higher than 70, they will be ranked as followed:

1. Master students belonging to Informatics: Information Security
2. Master students belonging to Informatics: Programming and System Architecture
3. Other master students at the Department of Informatics

The course will have

• 2 hours per week: lectures (plenary sessions)
• 2 hours per week: workshops (plenary sessions)

The workshop sessions will be used for seminar talks given by students and practical exercises

The course grade is based on the following assessments:

• Oral Presentation: 30%
• 4 hours individual written digital exam: 70%

Both parts of the exam must be passed and must be passed in the same semester

Oral Presentation: Students will work together in small teams, do literature research on a given network security topic, and present the results in the seminar session.

It will also be counted as one of your three attempts to sit the exam for this course, if you sit the exam for one of the following courses: IN3210 – Network and Communications Security, TEK5500 – Security in distributed systems (discontinued), UNIK4250 – Security in distributed systems (continued)