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| INFO0935-1 | E-business and security platform
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| Duration : | 24h Th |
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| Language : | French language |
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| 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
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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, ... |
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| 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. |
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| Written notes : | The slides of the lecture will be available in English on www.elearning.ulg.ac.be (http://www.elearning.ulg.ac.be) |
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| Assessment : | The evaluation will primarly based on a written examination. The group work will also be part of the final evaluation. |
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| Contacts : | The lecturers are:
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| 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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