A Primer On Cybersecurity

The objective of this 2-day course is to provide an overview of cybersecurity to a broad audience. We will cover foundational topics but will emphasize examples, applications and techniques to raise awareness on the most fundamental cybersecurity concepts, attack vectors and good practices.

Objectives:

• Understand fundamental concepts of cybersecurity such as Confidentiality, Availability, Integrity;
• Understand fundamental cryptographic primitives and their applications;
• Understand principles behind secure communication protocols;
• Understand principle of secure software construction;
• Understand basic web vulnerability assessments;
• Understand basic operating system security;
• Understand cybersecurity issues pertaining to Cyber-Physical Systems.