Web E Mobile System Security

The purpose of the course is twofold: on the one hand, we will introduce the basic concepts on computer security, on the other hand, we will cover the security problems specific to Web and mobile systems.

· Being able to identify the security properties a system must ensure in order to be considered "secure"
· Knowing the main approaches that can be used to authenticate users to a machine
· Being able to analyse a security protocol and possibly highlight the vulnerabilities with respect to the most common types of attack
· Being able to identify and describe the most common attacks on Web applications
· Knowing the most frequent malware and how they propagate
· Being able to describe the security issues of mobile devices