PG Diploma in Information Security (PGDIS) Syllabus and Chapters

PGDIS Course 4: Policy, Standards and Laws–(4 Credits, Compulsory, Theory): MSE-024

Block 1: Security Standards
Unit 1. Introduction to Security Policies and Standards
(Need, Methods, Various Standards: ISO 27001, HIPA, Vertical)
Unit 2. Security Framework Standards
(ISO Standards-all)
Unit 3. Security Mechanism Standards
(Encryption, Digital Signatures, Techniques, Algorithm)
Unit 4. Security Protocol Standards
(Entity authentication protocol, Key establishment, Time stamping)
Block 2: ISO Standards
Unit 1. Study of ISO Standards: A complete Case Study
Block 3: Cyber Laws
Unit 1. International Treaties, Conventions and Protocols concerning cyberspace
(Guidelines issued by various ministries, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Online
Dispute Resolution)
Unit 2. Information Technology Amendment Act 2008-I
(In Introduction: Criminal Law & Constitutional Law in brief)
Unit 3. Information Technology Amendment Act 2008-II
(Limitations)
Unit 4. Cyberspace and IPR
(Search engines, Web crawling, Indexing, searching, Ranking of web pages,
Spamdexing)
Block 4: Cyber Crimes and Regulation
Unit 1. Introduction to Computer Crimes
Unit 2. Conventional Crimes through Computer
Unit 3. Crimes and Torts committed on a Computer Network
Unit 4. Crimes relating to Data Alteration/ Destruction/ Theft of source code and
Database
(Online Dispute Resolution, theft of source code; a case study)