1. Information Security Prof. David Zhang Department of Computing Hong Kong Polytechnic University Tel: 2766-7271 PQ809 csdzhang@comp.polyu.edu.hk http://www.comp.polyu.edu.hk/~csdzhang

2. Lecturer  Academic Position Chair Professor: Chair Professor: Since 2005 in COMP Founding Lecturer Founding Lecturer (COMP5525): ~10 years  Professional Honors IEEE Fellow/ IAPR Fellow Selected as a Highly Cited Researchers in Engineering by Thomson Reuters in 2014 and in 2015, respectively. (http://highlycited.com/)http://highlycited.com/  Research Interests Biometrics, Information Security, Image Processing & Pattern Recognition  Publication >350 International Journal Papers, ~15 Books and >35 Patents from USA/HK/Japan/China

3. Teaching Method l Management Lectures: 18:30-20:30 Wednesday BC309 Tutorials: 20:30-21:30 Wednesday BC309 TA: Jingxing Li lijinxing158@gmail.comlijinxing158@gmail.com l Assessment Assignment 45% Exam 55% l Two Parts –Network security –Network security: Technologies & applications –Biometrics security –Biometrics security: Technologies & system

4. Network Security l Aim: Understand the basic technologies – cryptograph and various applications l Main topics l Conventional encryption –Classical technologies –Modern technologies l Public-key cryptograph l Message authentication l Watermarking by internet

5. Biometrics Security l Aim: Introduce biometrics computing knowledge and methods for security l Main topics l Best privacy tool: Biometrics l Privacy biometrics technologies l Typical physical biometrics l Typical behavioural biometrics l Biometric Security applications

6. Background Knowledge Except Internet and Computer System, the main background is needed as follows: l Number Theory l Prime numbers l Modular arithmetic l Number theorems l Pattern Recognition & Image Processing l One- and two- dimension signal/image processing l Feature extraction, classification and matching l Statistics pattern recognition

7. Assignment l Case Study: –Network & System Security l Electronic mail security l IP security and Web security l Intruders and viruses l Firewalls –Biometrics Based Security l Soft biometrics l 2D/3D biometrics l Head based biometrics l Hand based biometrics l Project Output l Report l Presentation

8. Recommended Texts l Network Security: William Stallings, Cryptograph and Network Security: Principles and Practice, Prentice Hall, 1999/2003. –http://williamstallings.com/Security2e.htmlhttp://williamstallings.com/Security2e.html (Winner of the 1999 Award for the best Computer Science and Engineering textbook, awarded by the Text and Academic Authors Association, Inc.) l Biometrics Security: D. Zhang, Automated Biometrics: Technologies and Systems, Kluwer Academic Publisher, USA, 2000. D. Zhang, X. Jing and J. Yang, Biometric Images Discrimination (BID) Technologies, IRM Press, USA, 2005. D. Zhang, F. Song, Y. Xu and Z. Liang, Advanced Pattern Recognition Technologies with Applications to Biometrics, IGI Global, USA, 2008.

9. Reference Books l D. Zhang, Palmprint Authentication, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. l W. Stallings, Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standard, Prentice Hall, 2000. l C.P. Pfleeger, Security in Computing, (2 Second Edition), Prentice Hall, 1997. l A.K. Jain, et al. (eds), Biometrics: Personal Identification in Networked Society, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998. l D. Zhang (ed.), Biometrics Solutions for Authentication in an E- World, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002. l G.W. Awcock, Applied Image Processing, McGraw-Hill, 1996. l M. Nadler and E.P. Smith, Pattern Recognition Engineering, Wiley Interscience, 1993.