Course pages 2017–18

Security

Study materials

• Slide show (not suitable for printing)
• Handout – 4 slides per side of A4
• Largeprint version – 2 slides per side of A4
• Exercises
• Past exam questions
• Lecture recordings (experimental, incomplete)

The final section on Web authentication (from slide 141 onwards) will not be covered in the exam this year. The lectures covered the notes only up to slide 149.

Read access to Information for supervisors page will become available to this year's Part IB students on Friday 1 June, assuming that most supervisions have finished by then. It includes solution notes to some of the exercises and past exam questions.

Practical ticks

Graham Rymer (UIS security and penetration tester) has prepared a set of four practical capture-the-flag exercises related to the “POSIX discretionary access control” and “Software vulnerabilities” chapters of this course.

For detailed instructions and how to access these exercises and submit your solutions, see the IB Security Practical Ticks Moodle page.