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Study programmes 2010-2011Last update : 11/04/2011
INFO0935-1  E-business and security platform
Duration :  24h Th
Credits/ECTS :  
Master en ingénieur de gestion, à finalité spécialisée en Modélisation et technologie, 2nd yearSecond semester4
Holder(s) :  
Language :  French language
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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