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Cybersecurity: an academic perspective into recent application domains

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See the Zoom link available here: Syllabus

Next Discussion Session: Monday November 23 at 08:15.

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Course Content

The best way to navigate the course is to use the "Modules" on the left menu. To facilitate the navigation, we provide links to each Module below.

Introduction to the Course

Module 1 - Security in Industrial Control Systems

Module 2 - Internet of Things

Module 3- AI and machine learning

Module 4 - Cybersecurity, society, and humanities

Brief description of the education

Cybersecurity is an omnipresent force in the present society, impacting directly operational, societal and governmental decision making. The proposed online course aims to introduce students, research professionals who want to re-educate themselves, and/or policy makers to academic perspectives on cybersecurity. This course introduces participants to key concepts and design principles associated with cybersecurity in different application domains.

This course is organised around 4 modules, each related a different domain. Each module will correspond to a self-study lecture and a joint class meeting with the responsible teacher as well as a home assignment.

Introduction (all).
Security in Industrial Process Control (André Teixeira)
IOT and Computer networks (Christian Rohner)
What AI can do for cybersecurity (Kristiaan Pelckmans)
Cybersecurity, society, and humanities (Anna Foka, Björn Victor)

Level

This is an introductory course on cybersecurity. We aim for participants with a diverse background.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the students should be able to:

Describe the key design-principles and concepts underlying a cybersecurity system.
Motivate important security mechanisms of a cybersecurity system.
Identify and explain relevant vulnerabilities in the different domains.
Explain the notion of risk, and describe the main parts of risk management through system design.Forms of instruction

Online lecture videos, slides, and self-study instructions, Studium assignments. Each module will have a meeting event where all participants can interact with the responsible teacher and their peers.

Examination for the Certificate

Homework assignments. Attendance and active participation in the course.

Schedule

The schedule can be found under Syllabus.

Contact

The course is given by teachers from two different departments: Department of Information Technology (IT) and Department of Electrical Engineering (EE).
* Course responsible: Kristiaan Pelckmans (IT)
* Course teachers: Kristiaan Pelckmans (IT), André Teixeira (EE), Christian Rohner (IT), Björn Victor (IT), Anna Foka (ABM)
For questions regarding content/format of the course, contact (Kristiaan Pelckmans)