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Study programmes 2009-2010Last update : 28/06/2010
INFO0935-1  E-business and security platform
Duration :  24h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
Master in Business Engineering, didactic approach, 1st yearDeuxième quadrimestre4
Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en financial engineering, 1st yearDeuxième quadrimestre4
Master in Management Engineering, professional Focus, 1st yearDeuxième quadrimestre4
Master in Management Engineering, professional Focus, 2nd yearDeuxième quadrimestre4
Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en intrapreneuriat, 1st yearDeuxième quadrimestre4
Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en supply chain management, 1st yearDeuxième quadrimestre4
Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en performance management systems, 1st yearDeuxième quadrimestre4
Holder(s) :  André Blavier, Eric Vyncke
Language :  Langue française
Course contents :  Security for e-business
  • Introduction to security
  • Introduction to cryptography and public key infrastructures
  • SSL (https) and IPsec to secure e-business transactions
  • firewalls and intrusion detection systems
  • mitigating application layer attacks (cross-site scripting, SQL injection and so on)
  • Compliancy: ISO 27000 and PCI (Payment Card Industry)

Web portal architecture
  • Internet access
  • co-located and hosted sites
  • 3-tier architecture
  • high availability
  • load balancing

Web technology
  • important development platforms (PHP, .Net, Java)
  • current standards: XML, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, etc.,
  • site ergonomy and optimization
Course objective :  The objective is to learn the technologies used by e-business services (for example e-commerce sites or business-to-business directly between two organizations). The goal is to educate the students to make them able to take decisions about e-business when they will be working in the real professional life. Whether it is an internal development or outsourced to a third party.

The first part of the course is about information security. This part is relevant to both e-business and to more classical information systems.
The second part is about e-business site architecture in respect to networking and servers.
The third part complements the second part with the application architecture for e-business.

The focus of this course is on technology without neglecting business and strategic points of view.
Prerequisites :  Pre-requisites includes:
good knowledge about how a computer works (including a good utilization of Windows PC)
knowledge of a programming language and HTML is recommended
Workshops :  Practical exercices will be done about: RSA key pair génération, certificate installation for a web site, analysis of an existing web site, attack simulation against a web site, ...
Organization :  This is mainly a lecture based course with several practical examples.

Practical works will also complement the lecures in order to illustrate in a practical way the techniques and the theory.

A group work (requiring more work) will also be part of this course.
Written notes :  The slides of the lecture will be available in English on www.elearning.ulg.ac.be (http://www.elearning.ulg.ac.be)
Assessment :  The evaluation will primarly based on a written examination. The group work will also be part of the final evaluation.
Contacts :  The lecturers are:
Remarks :  This course is a perfect technical introduction to the Veille en technologie de l'information et de la communication (INFO0932-1).


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