CYBR 371 (2024) - Schedule of Lectures (Tentative)

Video recordings of the lectures will be available through Nuku after the class is finished. The lectures are NOT streamed, to encourage in person class attendance. See the TimeTable for times and locations of lectures and labs/tutorial/helpdesks.

Class Times and Room Numbers

Days Duration Start End Room
Mondays 1 hour 15:10 16:00 CO-LT122 (Cotton Building, Lecture Theatre 122)
Wednesdays 1 hour 15:10 16:00 HM-LT104 (Hugh Mackenzie Lecture Theatre 104)

Lecture Schedule (Tentative)

Week Main Topics Slides Reading Notes Lecture Recording
1 Course Overview slides Secure Design Principles
Principles of Information Security
video
Principles of Secure Design and Information Security slides   video
2 Access Control Principles slides Access Control Principles and Practice video
Access Control in Unix/Linux slides Linux ACLs video
3 Shell Scripting slides   video
A Quick Review of TCP/IP slides Ch. 1 of "The Illustrated Network": "Protocols & Layers"
Chapter 2 of the coursebook: "TCP/IP"
video
4 PHY and MAC/Link Layer Security slides   video
IP and ICMP Security slides   video
5 IP and ICMP Security     video
UDP and TCP Security slides   video
MID TRIMESTER BREAK (1 Apr—14 Apr)
6 DNS Security slides   video
In-class Midterm Test (20%) png questions, solutions video
7 Web Security slides   video
Firewalls (1/2) slides   video
8 Firewalls (2/2)     video
Intrusion detection systems slides   video
9 Deception systems and Honeypots (1/2) slides   video
Deception systems and Honeypots (2/2)     video
10 Bastion Hosts (1/2) slides   video
Bastion Hosts (2/2)     video
11 Zero Trust Architecture and Micro-Segmentation slides   video
Cloud Security slides   video
12 IoT Security slides   video
Revision and Test Preparation slides   video
STUDY/TEST PERIOD