SENG: Schedule

 

WeekCommencingLecturesLecturersMilestoneRecommended
Reading
112-Jan-2026
L1. What is security engineering?
L2. Who is the Opponent?
 
Daniel Woods 
219-Jan-2026
L3. Security engineering
L4. Banking Security 
Daniel WoodsAssignment handed out
326-Jan-2026
L5. Economics
L6. Psychology 
Daniel WoodsProblem Set 1 handed out
402-Feb-2026
P1. Problem Class 1
P2. Threat model feed forward
Daniel Woods None
59-Feb-2026
L8. Network Security
L9. Hardware Security 1
Jingjie Li 
FLW16-Feb-2026NoneNone  
623-Feb-2026
L10. Hardware Security 2
L11. Modern operating systems security  
Jingjie LiProblem Set 2 handed out
702-Mar-2026

P3. Problem Class 2

L12. Ecosystems Security

 

Jingjie Li 
89-Mar-2026

L13. Guest Lecture

L14. Assurance

Daniel Woods 
916-Mar-2026

L15. Regulation and compliance

L16. Risk management

Daniel WoodsProblem Set 3 handed out
1023-Mar-2026

P4. Problem set 3

P5. Revision lecture (optional)

   
1130-Mar-2026NO LECTURES   

*The content of the course are thankfully built on the course materials and slides developed by Prof. Ross Anderson and Dr. Sam Ainsworth who founded the Security Engineering course at UoE.

Files

Lecture 1 slides
lec2-threat-actors-1.pdf
lec-3-policies-2.pdf
lec-4-banking-security-update.pdf
lec-5-economics-1.pdf
problem-class-1.pdf
lec-6-psychology.pdf
problem-class-1-answers0.pdf
feed-forward-session.pdf
lec-8-network-sec.pdf
lec-9-hardware-1.pdf
lec-10-hardware-2.pdf
problem-class-2.pdf
lec-11-os.pdf
problem-class-2-sol.pdf
lec-13-ecosystem.pdf
lec-13-assurance-1.pdf
lec-14-compliance.pdf
problem-set-3.pdf
lecture16riskmgmt.pdf
problem-class-4.pdf
system-security-revision.pdf
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