Studying at the University of Verona

Here you can find information on the organisational aspects of the Programme, lecture timetables, learning activities and useful contact details for your time at the University, from enrolment to graduation.

Academic calendar

The academic calendar shows the deadlines and scheduled events that are relevant to students, teaching and technical-administrative staff of the University. Public holidays and University closures are also indicated. The academic year normally begins on 1 October each year and ends on 30 September of the following year.

Academic calendar

Course calendar

The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..

Definition of lesson periods
Period From To
I semestre Oct 1, 2018 Jan 31, 2019
II semestre Mar 4, 2019 Jun 14, 2019
Exam sessions
Session From To
Sessione invernale d'esame Feb 1, 2019 Feb 28, 2019
Sessione estiva d'esame Jun 17, 2019 Jul 31, 2019
Sessione autunnale d'esame Sep 2, 2019 Sep 30, 2019
Degree sessions
Session From To
Sessione Estiva Jul 18, 2019 Jul 18, 2019
Sessione Autunnale Oct 17, 2019 Oct 17, 2019
Sessione Invernale Mar 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020
Holidays
Period From To
Sospensione dell'attività didattica Nov 2, 2018 Nov 3, 2018
Vacanze di Natale Dec 24, 2018 Jan 6, 2019
Vacanze di Pasqua Apr 19, 2019 Apr 28, 2019
Festa del Santo Patrono May 21, 2019 May 21, 2019
Vacanze estive Aug 5, 2019 Aug 18, 2019

Exam calendar

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Academic staff

B C D F G L M O P Q R S V

Belussi Alberto

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Bombieri Nicola

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Bonacina Maria Paola

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Boscaini Maurizio

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Busato Federico

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Calanca Andrea

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Carra Damiano

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Castellani Umberto

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Cicalese Ferdinando

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Cristani Matteo

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Cristani Marco

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Cubico Serena

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Dall'Alba Diego

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Dalla Preda Mila

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Farinelli Alessandro

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Favretto Giuseppe

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Fummi Franco

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Giachetti Andrea

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Giacobazzi Roberto

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Lovato Pietro

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Maris Bogdan Mihai

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Masini Andrea

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Mastroeni Isabella

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Menegaz Gloria

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Merro Massimo

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Muradore Riccardo

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Oliboni Barbara

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Paci Federica Maria Francesca

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Pravadelli Graziano

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Quaglia Davide

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Rizzi Romeo

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Romeo Alessandro

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Segala Roberto

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Setti Francesco

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Villa Tiziano

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Study Plan

The Study Plan includes all modules, teaching and learning activities that each student will need to undertake during their time at the University.
Please select your Study Plan based on your enrollment year.

CURRICULUM TIPO:

1° Year 

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
ING-INF/05
12
B
ING-INF/05
6
B
ING-INF/05

2° Year   activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020

ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
INF/01
6
B
ING-INF/05
Other activities
4
F
-
Final exam
24
E
-
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
12
B
ING-INF/05
12
B
ING-INF/05
6
B
ING-INF/05
activated in the A.Y. 2019/2020
ModulesCreditsTAFSSD
6
B
INF/01
6
B
ING-INF/05
Other activities
4
F
-
Final exam
24
E
-
Modules Credits TAF SSD
Between the years: 1°- 2°

Legend | Type of training activity (TTA)

TAF (Type of Educational Activity) All courses and activities are classified into different types of educational activities, indicated by a letter.




S Placements in companies, public or private institutions and professional associations

Teaching code

4S02798

Coordinator

Massimo Merro

Credits

6

Language

Italian

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS

Period

II semestre dal Mar 4, 2019 al Jun 14, 2019.

Learning outcomes

The course aims to present the main methodologies and technologies to ensure the security of computer networks and, more generally, distributed information systems.

At the end of the course, the student must demonstrate to be able to know the main theoretical and applicative notions for the design, the practical implementation and the formal analysis of tools and protocols for the security of distributed networks and distributed information systems.

This knowledge will allow the student to compare different techniques of network protection and choose between them the most appropriate according to the context of use and to make the most appropriate design choices when defining a new computer network.

The student will then be able to continue his/her studies in the field of network security and distributed information system in autonomy, studying autonomously and presenting in clear way new vulnerabilities in computer networks and the related solutions adopted to mitigate their effects.

Program

Frontal Teaching (44 hours)
- Introduction to Information Security
- Classical Security Properties (Confidentiality, Integrity, Availability, Accountability, Authentication)
- Goals, risks, attacks
- Symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography
- The problem of the distribution of secret keys
- Integrity of messages and message authentication
- Trust certificates and templates
- Public Key Infrastructure
- Public Key Infrastructure Study Cases (X.509, PGP)
- Classic cryptographic protocols for key exchange
- Taxonomy of attacks for classic cryptographic protocols
- Techniques for designing correct cryptographic protocols
- Network security protocols at different levels
- Case Studies (Kerberos, Security Socket Layer SSL, Internet Key Exchange IKE, IP Security IPSec)
- Privacy and anonymity
- Anonymity policies, technical problems, implementation mechanisms (pseudonyms and proxies)
- Case Studies (Mix Networks, Crowds, Onions networks, TOR)
- Firewalls (packet filter, stateful, application level, circuit level)
- Intruders and Intrusion Detection Systems.

Laboratory (12 hours):

--Network Traffic Analysis:
* Most commonly used firewall filtering systems. Introduction to Netcat, Wireshark, and tcpdump.
* Writing a port scanner in Python. Hints on the nmap tool.
* Physical Addresses and ARP Protocol, ARP Tables, and ARP spoofing attacks. The concept of ARP poisoning. The Ettercap tool. Attachment detection methods based on spoofing and risk mitigation.
* Hints on String Strips HTTP.Tool SSLStrip and Bettercap Headers.
* Network layer limits as a defense tool for attacks at the application level.

- Anomalies detected in network traffic:
* Log Logging for Attack Detection. Hints about how IPS and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPSs) and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) are configured based on logs.
* Typical network layer configuration errors and consequent higher-level risks. The major vulnerabilities of web based networking (A5: security misconfiguration, A6: sensitive data exposure), theft of authentication credentials, session tokens, and sensitive information in general. Examples using ARP poisoning techniques.
* The Linux Netfilter firewall: default functionality and operating modes, tables, chains, rules, targets, and policies. QoS (Quality of Service) hints and use for connections that require special latency guarantees. Hints on how to optimize filtering rules to help them work.
* Netfilter extensions for connection status (new, established, related, and invalid), address types (unspec, local prohibit, unicast, broadcast), comments, limitations and burst concepts, filters At the MAC address level, using firewall to mitigate ARP spoofing attacks.

- Checking network and IDS filtering configurations:
* Designing an IDS system. Example of activating IDS for a web infrastructure. IPS system implementation for brute force attacks on ftp credentials and port scanning. IPS prototype writing through the iptables firewall and the Linux shell. IPS OSSEC.
* Case study: SYN flood type (half-open-attack) attacks and impaction mitigation methods: limiting the absorbed resources of the attack by means of network tools.
* Security effectiveness considerations through progressive network closures.
* Comparison of Netfilter firewalls with ASA of CISCO (hints) and PF (BSD systems).
* PfSense (community edition) firewall wizard.
* Connecting, port forwarding, and filing rules provided by the OpenWRT firewall for embedded systems.

Reference texts
Author Title Publishing house Year ISBN Notes
William Stallings Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice (7th Edition) (Edizione 7) Prentice Hall 2016 ISBN-10: 0134444280
William Stallings Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards (6th Edition) (Edizione 6) Prentice Hall 2017 ISBN-10: 013452733X

Examination Methods

Examination consists of:
- an oral examination on the topics dealt with during frontal lessons;
- a project on subject related to the lab.

The final vote comes from the average of the evaluations obtained in the oral test and in the discussion of the project.

Students with disabilities or specific learning disorders (SLD), who intend to request the adaptation of the exam, must follow the instructions given HERE

Type D and Type F activities

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Graduation

Deadlines and administrative fulfilments

For deadlines, administrative fulfilments and notices on graduation sessions, please refer to the Graduation Sessions - Science and Engineering service.

Need to activate a thesis internship

For thesis-related internships, it is not always necessary to activate an internship through the Internship Office. For further information, please consult the dedicated document, which can be found in the 'Documents' section of the Internships and work orientation - Science e Engineering service.

Final examination regulations

List of theses and work experience proposals

theses proposals Research area
Analisi ed identificazione automatica del tono/volume della voce AI, Robotics & Automatic Control - AI, Robotics & Automatic Control
Analisi e percezione dei segnali biometrici per l'interazione con robot AI, Robotics & Automatic Control - AI, Robotics & Automatic Control
Integrazione del simulatore del robot Nao con Oculus Rift AI, Robotics & Automatic Control - AI, Robotics & Automatic Control
BS or MS theses in automated reasoning Computing Methodologies - ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Sviluppo sistemi di scansione 3D Computing Methodologies - COMPUTER GRAPHICS
Sviluppo sistemi di scansione 3D Computing Methodologies - IMAGE PROCESSING AND COMPUTER VISION
Dati geografici Information Systems - INFORMATION SYSTEMS APPLICATIONS
Analisi ed identificazione automatica del tono/volume della voce Robotics - Robotics
Analisi e percezione dei segnali biometrici per l'interazione con robot Robotics - Robotics
Integrazione del simulatore del robot Nao con Oculus Rift Robotics - Robotics
BS or MS theses in automated reasoning Theory of computation - Logic
BS or MS theses in automated reasoning Theory of computation - Semantics and reasoning
Proposte di tesi/collaborazione/stage in Intelligenza Artificiale Applicata Various topics
Proposte di Tesi/Stage/Progetto nell'ambito dell'analisi dei dati Various topics

Attendance

As stated in the Teaching Regulations for the A.Y. 2022/2023, attendance at the course of study is not mandatory.
 


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