M. Tech in Computers with Specialisation in Information Security

Institutes offering M. Tech in Computer Science / Engineering could offer specialisation in Information Security. The Computer Science / Engineering students who would specialize in Information Security would have to take up:

- Three courses in Information Security and

- Major Graduate Project in Information security.

The three courses could be from the list mentioned above for M. Tech in Information security.

Note 1: The above are broad guidelines as each Institute/University may follow a different pattern; there is flexibility in adapting the basic requirements into the structure of the respective Institute/University appropriately. The following is the suggested broad list of courses (they are by no means exhaustive):

Information Security Stream Courses

i) Introduction to Computer Security
ii) Security Engineering: Dependable Distributed Systems
iii) Mathematical Models for Internet
iv) Digital Defense: Issues in Security, and Critical Infrastructure Protection
v) Cryptography foundations, probabilistic proofs and pseudo randomness
vi) Intrusion Detection
vii) Game theory and its applications
viii) Public Key Infrastructure and Trust Management
ix) Mobile and Wireless Network Security
x) Optical Network Security
xi) Information Warfare
xii) Technical Foundations for E-Commerce
xiii) Biometric Security
xiv) Computer Crime Investigation and Forensics
xv) Financial Mathematics


The details of the above mentioned courses are at Annexure-I