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.
Course calendar
The Academic Calendar sets out the degree programme lecture and exam timetables, as well as the relevant university closure dates..
Period | From | To |
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I semestre | Oct 1, 2020 | Jan 29, 2021 |
II semestre | Mar 1, 2021 | Jun 11, 2021 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione invernale d'esame | Feb 1, 2021 | Feb 26, 2021 |
Sessione estiva d'esame | Jun 14, 2021 | Jul 30, 2021 |
Sessione autunnale d'esame | Sep 1, 2021 | Sep 30, 2021 |
Session | From | To |
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Sessione Estiva | Jul 15, 2021 | Jul 15, 2021 |
Sessione Autunnale | Oct 15, 2021 | Oct 15, 2021 |
Sessione Invernale | Mar 15, 2022 | Mar 15, 2022 |
Period | From | To |
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Festa dell'Immacolata | Dec 8, 2020 | Dec 8, 2020 |
Vacanze Natalizie | Dec 24, 2020 | Jan 3, 2021 |
Epifania | Jan 6, 2021 | Jan 6, 2021 |
Vacanze Pasquali | Apr 2, 2021 | Apr 5, 2021 |
Santo Patrono | May 21, 2021 | May 21, 2021 |
Festa della Repubblica | Jun 2, 2021 | Jun 2, 2021 |
Exam calendar
Exam dates and rounds are managed by the relevant Science and Engineering Teaching and Student Services Unit.
To view all the exam sessions available, please use the Exam dashboard on ESSE3.
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Academic staff
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.
1° Year
2° Year activated in the A.Y. 2021/2022
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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.
Foundations of Security and Privacy (2020/2021)
Teaching code
4S008900
Credits
6
Language
Italian
Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)
ING-INF/05 - INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
The teaching is organized as follows:
Teoria
Laboratorio
Learning outcomes
This course aims to give an overview of cyber security. The course will equip students with a clear view of the current cyber security landscape considering not only technical measures and defences, but also the other subject areas that apply, including legal, management, crime, risk, social and human factors. At the end of the course, students will have the necessary knowledge and understanding of : the importance of taking a multi-disciplinary approach to cyber security, the cyber threat landscape, both in terms of recent emergent issues and those issues which recur over time, general principles and strategies that can be applied to systems to make them more robust to attack, and issues surrounding privacy, anonymity and pervasive passive monitoring.
Program
The syllabus includes the following topics:
- Introduction to cyber security
- Actors in cyber security; governments, organisations, citizens, criminals
- Cyber attacks phases: Cyber Kill Chain
- The cyber security threat landscape: Social engineering attacks, attacks to critical infrastructures, Advanced
Persistent Threats, Malware, Cyberwar
- How to defende against cyber attacks: NIST Cyber Security Framework and Cyber Essentials
- Cryptographic techniques for data protection: digital signatures, PKI, and digital certificates, public key and symmetric cryptography, hashing
- Web and User-Based Authentication protocols: passwords and their attacks, token-based authentication; biometric authentication, authentication protocols (SAML, OAuth and OpenID)
- Access control: Access Control Models (DAC, MAC, RBAC and ABAC), access control policy specification and enforcement
- Introduction to Privacy: definitions, attacks to privacy
- Privacy enhancing technologies
- Anonymization techniques: k-anonymity, t-closeness, l-diversity and their limitations
- Differential privacy
- Data protection law: principles, GDPR
- Management of cyber risks
Examination Methods
The students will be evaluated based on a written exam.
Type D and Type F activities
Le attività formative in ambito D o F comprendono gli insegnamenti impartiti presso l'Università di Verona o periodi di stage/tirocinio professionale.
Nella scelta delle attività di tipo D, gli studenti dovranno tener presente che in sede di approvazione si terrà conto della coerenza delle loro scelte con il progetto formativo del loro piano di studio e dell'adeguatezza delle motivazioni eventualmente fornite.
years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | Matlab-Simulink programming | D |
Bogdan Mihai Maris
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Programming Challanges | D |
Romeo Rizzi
(Coordinator)
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years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | Introduction to 3D printing | D |
Franco Fummi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Python programming language | D |
Vittoria Cozza
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | HW components design on FPGA | D |
Franco Fummi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Rapid prototyping on Arduino | D |
Franco Fummi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | Protection of intangible assets (SW and invention)between industrial law and copyright | D |
Roberto Giacobazzi
(Coordinator)
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years | Modules | TAF | Teacher |
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1° 2° | The fashion lab (1 ECTS) | D |
Maria Caterina Baruffi
(Coordinator)
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1° 2° | The course provides an introduction to blockchain technology. It focuses on the technology behind Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tendermint and Hotmoka. | D |
Nicola Fausto Spoto
(Coordinator)
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Career prospects
Module/Programme news
News for students
There you will find information, resources and services useful during your time at the University (Student’s exam record, your study plan on ESSE3, Distance Learning courses, university email account, office forms, administrative procedures, etc.). You can log into MyUnivr with your GIA login details: only in this way will you be able to receive notification of all the notices from your teachers and your secretariat via email and also via the Univr app.
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 thesis proposals
Attendance modes and venues
As stated in the Teaching Regulations, attendance at the course of study is not mandatory.
Part-time enrolment is permitted. Find out more on the Part-time enrolment possibilities page.
The course's teaching activities take place in the Science and Engineering area, which consists of the buildings of Ca‘ Vignal 1, Ca’ Vignal 2, Ca' Vignal 3 and Piramide, located in the Borgo Roma campus.
Lectures are held in the classrooms of Ca‘ Vignal 1, Ca’ Vignal 2 and Ca' Vignal 3, while practical exercises take place in the teaching laboratories dedicated to the various activities.