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This document outlines the content and learning objectives of a course on cyber security. The course is divided into 5 parts that cover: 1) basics of securing apps, OSes, and legacy code, 2) web security, 3) network security, 4) mobile security, and 5) critical infrastructure security. The major learning objectives are to discover software bugs and cyber attacks, explain how to recreate exploits, and explain techniques to mitigate threats across different domains like web browsers, servers, networking protocols, mobile apps, and critical systems.

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Module-0 5

This document outlines the content and learning objectives of a course on cyber security. The course is divided into 5 parts that cover: 1) basics of securing apps, OSes, and legacy code, 2) web security, 3) network security, 4) mobile security, and 5) critical infrastructure security. The major learning objectives are to discover software bugs and cyber attacks, explain how to recreate exploits, and explain techniques to mitigate threats across different domains like web browsers, servers, networking protocols, mobile apps, and critical systems.

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Module 0.

5
Learning Objectives
Content of this Course
Part 1: Basics (architecting for security)
Securing apps, OS, and legacy code
Isolation, authentication, and access control

Part 2: Web security (defending against a web attacker)


Building robust web sites, understand the browser
security model
Part 3: Network security (defending against a network attacker)

Monitoring and architecting secure networks


Course Content (cont.)

Part 4: Mobile security


Android Security
Part 5: Critical Infrastructure
Security
Security of Industrial Systems
What is Security?
Achieving something in the presence
of adversaries
Internet is full of adversaries
There are insider adversaries for air-
gapped systems
Thus design of systems need to worry
about security
Major Learning Objectives
Discover software bugs that pose
cyber security threats
explain and recreate exploits of such
bugs in realizing a cyber attack
explain how to fix the bugs to mitigate
such threats
Major Learning Objectives (2)
Discover cyber attack scenarios to
web browsers, and web servers
explain various possible exploits
recreate cyber attacks on browsers and
servers with existing bugs
explain how to mitigate such threats
Major Learning Objectives (3)
Discover and explain cyber security
holes in standard networking protocols
both in network architecture, standard
protocols (such as TCP/IP, ARP, DNS,
Ethernet, BGP etc),
explain mitigation methods and revisions
of standards based on cyber threats.
Major Learning Objectives (4)
Discover and explain mobile software
bugs posing cyber security threats
explain and recreate exploits
explain mitigation techniques.
Major Learning Objectives (5)
Articulate the urgent need for cyber
security in critical computer systems
explain various threat scenarios
Major Learning Objectives (6)
Articulate the well known cyber
attack incidents
explain the attack scenarios
explain mitigation techniques
Major Learning Objectives (7)
Explain the difference between
Systems Cyber Security
Network Cyber Security,
Cryptography
crypto-protocols etc.

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