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Cyber Sphere and Security: Global Concerns

CREDIT DISTRIBUTION, ELIGIBILITY AND PRE-REQUISITES OF THECOURSE

Course Credits Credit distribution of the course Eligibilit Pre-requisite


title Lecture Tutorial Practical/ ycriteria of the course
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Cyber Sphere 2 1 0 1 Class NIL
and Security: XII
Global
Concerns

Learning Objectives

The Learning Objective of this course is as follows:


 To spread awareness and enlightening visions of the indiscriminate and
diversified students to ensure their immediate and basic cyber safety and prevent
loss due to sheer ignorance.

Learning outcomes

The Learning Outcomes of this course are as follows:

 After studying this course, students will be able to apprehend key terms of
cyber domain and identify cyber threats.
 After studying this course, students will be able to understand cyber law
 concepts, intellectual property and Digital Rights Management.
 After studying this course, students will be able to diagnose and examine
 basic security loopholes, anomalous behavior in internet.
 After studying this course, students will be able to understand principles of
web security.
 After studying this course, students will be able to secure and protect personal
data with safe Internet usage.
 After studying this course, students will be able to assimilate approaches for
incident analysis and response, risk management and best cyber security practices.

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SYLLABUS (Theory + Practical)

Unit I: Introducing Cyber ‘Sphere’ and ‘Security’ (3 hours)


 Cyber Terminologies: Cyber Sphere, Cyber Security, Cyber Crime, Cyber
Attack, Cyber Espionage, Cyber Warfare, Cybernetics
 Cyber Security and Paradigms
 Cyber Security: Objectives and Roles

Unit II: Cyber Crime: Insight, Mitigation and Control (3 + 6 hours)


 Cyber Crime and Cyber Activism: An Overview
 Typologies of Cyber Crimes: Generic Cyber Crimes, Advanced Persistent
Threats (APTs), Cyber Threat in Mobile Technology, Cloud Computing and
 BYOD
 Cyber Crime Identification, Risk Assessment, Management and Control

Unit III: Cyber Policies and Cyber Law (3 + 6 hours)


 Cyber Policies and Cyber Law: Dimensions, Determinants, Dilemmas
 Existing Cyber Policies and Must Follow Up Actions
 Grey Areas in Cyber Laws

Unit IV: Security Tools and Usage (3 + 6 hours)


 Knowledge and Identification of Security Tools
  Cyber Security Aspects
 Cyber Security Toolkits

Unit V: Cyber Security: Case Studies (3 + 6 hours)


 Government Institutions
 Banks and Financial Institutions, Commercial Websites, Point of Sale
issues and Online Payment
 Real Time Cases

Essential Readings:

 Bertrand Venard (2019). ‘Cyber Security: The New Art of War’, Lecture delivered at
Developing Countries Research Centre [dcrc], University of Delhi, 1 April 2019.
 Bertrand Venard (2019). ‘The Determinants of Cybersecurity Behaviours: Qualitative
Research Among French Students’ in C. Onwubiko, X. Bellekens, A.Erola, M. Jaatun
and C. Nogueira (eds.), Proceedings of the Cyber Science 2019: Cyber Situational
Awareness for Predictive Insight and Deep Learning. UK: University of Oxford. 
 Bertrand Venard (2019). Cybersecurity Among students. UK: Wolfson College,
University of Oxford.
 Bertrand Venard (2019). Cyber Aggressions in the XXIst Century: Equation of a
Crisis. UK: University of Oxford.
 Cristopher Hadnagy (2018). Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking, 2nd
Edition. New York: Wiley
 John Erickson (2008). The Art of Exploitation (2nd Edition). San Francisco: No
Starch Press.

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 Kevin Mitnick and Robert Vamosi (2017). The Art of Invincibility. Boston: Little,
Brown and Company.
 Kevin Mitnick (2012). The Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most
Wanted Hacker. New York: Back Bay Books.
 Yogesh Atal and Sunil K Choudhary (2013). Combating Corruption: The Indian Case.
Hyderabad and New Delhi: Orient Blackswan.

Examination scheme and mode:


Evaluation scheme and mode will be as per the guidelines notified by the University of Delhi.

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