We will try to provide hard copies of the assigned readings at least a week in advance in class. Welcome to 18-849 1. This first meeting will be organizational in nature. See the 18-849 overview for a recap of the general information. Also, everyone in the class is required to read at least one of the books above.
Security is a broad topic.
This lecture is a 1.5 hour overview of the whole shooting match. Before arriving, everyone should have read chapter 1, as well as one or more of the books listed above. Threats and Vulnerabilities 1. A Taxonomy of Computer Program Security Flaws by C. Landwehr, A. Bull, J. McDermott, and W. Choi, from ACM Computing Surveys, Vol. 26, No. 3, September 1994, pp.