BLG 640E - Security in Financial Information Systems

Course Objectives

1. Introduce security challenges related to financial systems and analyze potential security solutions against them.
2. Introduce mathematical background of applied cryptography used to secure financial systems and to teach the design approach with cryptographic mechanisms.
3. Show the approach of security analysis of financial services.
4. Introduce Blockchain models, related issues, and research areas.

Course Description

Financial systems, basics of information security, applied cryptography mathematics and mechanisms (block cipher, stream cipher, DES, AES, key distribution, hash functions, MAC, RSA, Diffie-Hellman key exchange, digital signature), trust models and identity management, authentication mechanisms, access control models, financial markets, types of currency, blockchain.