Information security and privacy

COM-402

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Course summary

Instructors: Prof. Mathias Payer

Teaching Assistants: Chibin Zhang, Florian Hofhammer, Han Zheng, Luca Di Bartolomeo, Musa Ünal, Philipp Mao, Yuxi Zheng, Zhiyao Feng

Course Lectures: Monday, 16:15-19:00, CO1

Exercises: Wednesday, 13:15-16:00

         On campus: INM 203, INM 11, INF 213, INJ 218

         Q&A on the Ed Forum

Quizzes:  They will take place in CO 01 (onsite) at the following dates/times:

  • Quiz 1: Oct. 07th at 16:15 (covering HW 2 and lectures 1, 2, 3)
  • Quiz 2: Nov. 04th during class hours (covering HWs 3, 4, 5, 6 and lectures 4, 5, 6)
  • Quiz 3: Nov. 25th during class hours (covering HWs 7, 8, 9 and lectures 7, 8, 9)
  • Quiz 4: Dec. 16th during class hours (covering HWs 10, 11, 12 and lectures 10, 11, 12)
Videos: The recordings of the COM-402 class are on our YouTube channel.

Final Exam:
The exam will be written and it will take place on campus. Its format will be similar to the one of last year, which is available at the bottom of this Moodle. Please write in a readable way with a blue or black pen (no pencil) and stay in the bounding box for the question, i.e., only text in the bounding box will be graded. Poorly written responses will not be graded. The exam will contain questions related to the understanding of the course and some problems similar to the homework exercises; some of the questions will be related to the hands-on exercises. The questions will be stated in English; you must write your answers in English (if you don't know a word in English, you can put it in French between quotation marks). Please write in a readable way. Poorly written responses will not be graded. The exam is closed book, i.e., no extra material is allowed.

The exam date is scheduled by the Service Académique. Students must physically come to the exam. In case of absence due to force majeure, please check with the section administration, not with the lecturers.

Grading structure
  • Best 3 of the 4 quizzes : 30%
  • Final exam : 70%

See the slides of the first lecture for more details.


Sept 09 - Introduction / Common Cyber Threats


No class


Sept 23 - Crypto Basics


Sept 30 - Access Control


Oct 07 - Data Security


Oct 14 - Programming Languages Security


Oct 28 - OWASP and Software Security


Nov 04 - Automated Testing / Fuzzing


Nov 11 - Mobile Security


Nov 19 - Network and Operational Security


Nov 27 - Trusted Execution Environments and Side Channels


Dec 04 - Privacy


Dec 11 - Machine Learning Security and Privacy


Dec 18 - Last quiz, Summary, and Q&A


Previous Exams


Jan 31 - Exam