SENG: Schedule | Open Course Materials

Week	Commencing	Lectures	Lecturers	Milestone	Recommended Reading
1	12-Jan-2026	L1. What is security engineering? L2. Who is the Opponent?	Daniel Woods		Chapter 1: What is Security Engineering? Chapter 2: Who is the Opponent?
2	19-Jan-2026	L3. Security engineering L4. Banking Security	Daniel Woods	Assignment handed out	Security Policies (or read Chapter 4 and 9 of the textbook) Chapter 12: Banking and Bookkeeping
3	26-Jan-2026	L5. Economics L6. Psychology	Daniel Woods	Problem Set 1 handed out	Chapter 3: Psychology and Usability Chapter 8: Economics
4	02-Feb-2026	P1. Problem Class 1 P2. Threat model feed forward	Daniel Woods		None
5	9-Feb-2026	L8. Network Security L9. Hardware Security 1	Jingjie Li		Chapter 21: Network Attack and Defence Hardware Security: Security Engineering Chapters 19, 5, 27
FLW	16-Feb-2026	None	None
6	23-Feb-2026	L10. Hardware Security 2 L11. Modern operating systems security	Jingjie Li	Problem Set 2 handed out	Operating Systems: Security Engineering Chapters 6, 7, 9, 27
7	02-Mar-2026	P3. Problem Class 2 L12. Ecosystems Security	Jingjie Li		Ecosystems: Security Engineering Chapters 22, 8, 24
8	9-Mar-2026	L13. Assurance and sustainability L14. Governance and regulation	Daniel Woods		Chapter 27: Secure Systems Development Chapter 28: Assurance and Sustainability
9	16-Mar-2026	L15. Risk management L16. Guest Lecture	Daniel Woods	Problem Set 3 handed out	Content analysis of cyber insurance policies: how do carriers price cyber risk? Lessons Lost: Incident Response in the Age of Cyber Insurance and Breach Attorneys
10	23-Mar-2026	P4. Problem set 3 P5. Revision lecture (optional)
11	30-Mar-2026	None