IS 511: Introduction to Information Security


This is an introductory graduate course on Computer Security. It will cover a broad variety of elementary topics in security, focusing on the scientific principles involved in various security technologies, rather than the specifics of any particular technology. For example, we will discuss firewalls in this course: after this course, you will probably not know which commercial firewall to pick or the exact details of how to configure it; but you will know what a firewall can do (in general) to protect a computer system and what are the inherent limitations of firewalls. The primary emphasis of this course is on preparing students for research in security, and teaching how to apply security principles to research in other CS fields. However, students interested in practicing security will learn important principles that a more applied course might not teach. 

News
 ※ 2/28 Welcome to IS511
※ 3/ 9 Homework 1 is Posted (Due date : 3/23)[Homework 1]
※ 3/13 Pre-proposal due is soon (Due date : 3/15)
※ 3/20 Full-Proposal due is one week off (Due date : 3/27)
※ 4/ 2 Best proposal paper (Jaeseung Choi, Soomin Kim) [Best Proposal]
※ 4/ 2 Makeup Class at 7:00PM on April 4th. 10:30AM, April 14th
※ 4/18 Miterm is Today, N1 111, 1PM
※ 4/19 Homework 2 is Posted (Details in KLMS)
※ 4/27 Tomorrow is due date of Homework 2(Due date : 4/28)[Homework 2]
※ 5/11 Makeup Class at 11:00AM on May 12th.
※ 5/31 Homework 3 is Posted (Due date : 6/12)[Homework 3]
※ 6/ 6 Project Final Report due is changed (Due date : 6/16)
※ 6/ 7 Project Presentation is Friday (6/9) at N1 #102

Basic Information

Lecture: TTh 01:00PM - 02:15PM, N1 IT Convergence Building #113

  • Yongdae Kim  yongdaek(at)kaist.ac.kr, N26 #201 Office hours: TBD
  • Brent Byunghoon Kang  brentkang(at)kaist.ac.kr, N5 #2316, Office hours: TBD
  • Seungwon Shin claude(at)kaist.ac.kr, N1 #919, Office hours: TBD
  • Sang Kil Cha   sangkilc(at)kaist.ac.kr, N5 #2319, Office hours: TBD
  • Jooyoung Lee   hicalf(at)kaist.ac.kr, N5 #2318, Office hours: TBD

    • TAs:
    - Jeongoh Kyea, ddoogg(at)kaist.ac.kr              (Prof. Yongdae Kim)
    - Kihwan Kim, abc(at)kaist.ac.kr                      (Prof. Brent Byunghoon Kang)
    - Bumjin Gwak, bjgwak(at)kaist.ac.kr               (Prof. Sang Kil Cha)
    - Hyeongcheol An, anh1026(at)kaist.ac.kr        (Prof. Jooyoung Lee)
    - Seunghyeon Lee, seunghyeon(at)kaist.ac.kr   (Prof. Seungwon Shin)

    Office hours: TBD