ISEA Course
on Security
IMSc, Chennai,
May 15 - June 9, 2006
This course is part of the Information Security Education and
Awareness project being implemented by the Department
of Information Technology, Government of India. The course
is principally intended as a training programme for teachers and
researchers at the National Institutes of Technology
and other nodal centres identified by the DIT.
The first course of this kind was held at Tata Institute of Fundamental
Research, Mumbai, in June 2005, and the second course takes place
at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai.
The course, which runs for 4 weeks, consists of 4 mini-courses
, three of which cover fundamental concepts and techniques over
12 lecture sessions of 90 minutes each, and 5 tutorial sessions of
60 minutes each. The fourth is a set of special lectures on themes
introduced in the basic courses. The mini-courses are:
Cryptography (Cr)
Systems and Applications Security (SS)
Security Protocols (SP)
Special Lectures (SL)
Course Co-ordinator:
R. Ramanujam, IMSc