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.

Type D and Type F activities

Type D learning activities are the student's choice, type F activities are additional knowledge useful for job placement (internships, transversal skills, project works, etc.). According to the Teaching Regulations of the Course, some activities can be chosen and entered independently in the booklet, others must be approved by a special committee to verify their consistency with the study plan. Type D or F learning activities can be covered by the following activities.

1. Modules taught at the University of Verona

Include the modules listed below and/or in the Course Catalogue (which can also be filtered by language of delivery via Advanced Search).

Booklet entry mode: if the teaching is included among those listed below, the student can enter it independently during the period in which the curriculum is open; otherwise, the student must make a request to the Secretariat, sending the form to carriere.scienze@ateneo.univr.it during the period indicated.

2. CLA certificate or language equivalency

In addition to those required by the curriculum/study plan, the following are recognized for those matriculated from A.Y. 2021/2022:

  • English language: 3 CFUs are recognized for each level of proficiency above that required by the course of study (if not already recognized in the previous course of study).
  • Other languages and Italian for foreigners: 3 CFUs are recognized for each proficiency level starting from A2 (if not already recognized in the previous study cycle).

These CFUs will be recognized, up to a maximum of 6 CFUs in total, of type F if the study plan allows it, or of type D. Additional elective credits for language knowledge may be recognized only if consistent with the student's educational project and if adequately justified.

Those enrolled until A.Y. 2020/2021 should consult the information found here.

Method of inclusion in the booklet: request the certificate or equivalency from CLA and send it to the Student Secretariat - Careers for the inclusion of the exam in the career, by email: carriere.scienze@ateneo.univr.it

Warning: to students, who have achieved the B2 level of English in their three-year careers (bachelor), we emphasize the need to replace the full B2 level of English, provided by the study plan, with the C1 level of "computerized" English (prova informatizzata) or to acquire other language proficiency in a community language at least at the full B1 level.

3. Transversal skills

Discover the training paths promoted by the University's TALC - Teaching and learning center intended for students regularly enrolled in the academic year of course delivery

Mode of inclusion in the booklet: the teaching is not expected to be included in the curriculum. Only upon obtaining the Open Badge will the booklet CFUs be automatically validated. The registration of CFUs in career is not instantaneous, but there will be some technical time to wait.  

4. CONTAMINATION LAB 

The Contamination Lab Verona (CLab Verona) is an experiential course with modules on innovation and enterprise culture that offers the opportunity to work in teams with students from all areas to solve challenges set by companies and organisations.  

Upon completion of a CLab, students will be entitled to receive 6 CFU (D- or F-type credits).  

Find out more:  https://www.univr.it/clabverona 

PLEASE NOTE: In order to be admitted to any teaching activities, including those of your choice, you must be enrolled in the academic year in which the activities in question are offered. Students who are about to graduate in the December and April sessions are therefore advised NOT to undertake extracurricular activities in the new academic year in which they are not enrolled, as these graduation sessions are valid for students enrolled in the previous academic year. Therefore, students who undertake an activity in an academic year in which they are not enrolled will not be granted CFU credits.

5. Internship/internship period

In addition to the CFUs stipulated in the curriculum/study plan (check carefully what is indicated on the Teaching Regulations): here information on how to activate the internship. 

Check in the regulations which activities can be Type D and which can be Type F.

Modules and other activities that can be entered independently in the booklet

Academic year:

Teaching code

4S009066

Credits

6

Language

English en

Scientific Disciplinary Sector (SSD)

INF/01 - INFORMATICS

Period

Semester 2 dal Mar 4, 2024 al Jun 14, 2024.

Courses Single

Authorized

Learning objectives

The course aims to provide students with an introduction to the main security and privacy issues related to the collection, storage and processing of Big Data and the technical and organizational solutions that can be adopted to protect such data. The course also aims to give an overview of the ethical, legal and social aspects related to the processing of Big Data. At the end of the course the student has to show to have acquired the following skills:
- understanding of the main security and privacy attacks on Big Data
- knowledge of the techniques to make systems for collecting, storing and processing Big Data, resistant to such attacks and the limitations of these techniques
- knowledge of the ethical principles concerning the processing of Big Data
- knowledge of the principles for data protection imposed by existing legislation
- ability to identify the main attacks and compare different techniques for Big Data protection and choose among the most suitable ones according to the a-specific context.

Prerequisites and basic notions

none

Program

The syllabus of the course includes the following topics:
- Introduction to information security: definitions, security properties, cyber attacks related to collection, storage and processing of Big Data
- Authentication: digital certificates, public key infrastructures, single sign on, challenge-response protocols.
- Access Control: access control models, specification and enforcement of policies. Applications to systems
for the elaboration of Big Data
-Cryptographic techniques to protect data access: symmetric, e public key cryptography, multiparty computation, secret sharing schemes, oblivious transfer, homomorphic and functional encryption, private set intersection.
- Data provenance: models to represent data provenance, query languages and mechanisms to store and visualize provenance data and their application to Big Data
- Introduction to Privacy: definitions, Solove's Taxonomy, privacy attacks related to collection, storage and processing of Big Data
-Anonymization techniques: pseudoanonymity and hashing, k-anonymity, l-diversity, t-closeness and their attacks. Limitations of anonymization techniquest for Big Data.
- Privacy preserving data mining: clustering, classification, association rule/pattern mining, outliers.
- Differential Privacy: main concepts, Laplace mechanism, privacy budget, global sensitivity, group privacy.
- Privacy Ethics: behavioural economics of privacy, trust frameworks and transparency, fairness.
- Data Protection: principles of data protection, GDPR, compliance techniques.

Bibliography

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Didactic methods

Lectures, seminars, laboratory activities

Learning assessment procedures

Students will be evaluated through a written exam with questions on the topics of the course, the questions will be evaluated by the teachers who covered the topics during the course.

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

Evaluation criteria

The exam questions aim to verify understanding of the concepts presented during the course.

Criteria for the composition of the final grade

The teachers evaluate the answers provided to the questions and propose a grade out of thirty

Exam language

English