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Cyber Security

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Year 3 · Semester 2 · choose 1 of 4

  • Ready to learn · Level 2 · 6 points

    Network Security

    Packet filtering and firewalls, addressing and segmentation, DNS and link-layer attacks, secure channels with TLS and VPNs, and network monitoring, all worked on small exercise networks.

    Prerequisites: Introduction to Cybersecurity

    What you'll learn (6 topics)
    • Network attacks
    • Packet filtering and firewalls
    • Addressing and segmentation
    • DNS and link-layer attacks
    • Secure channels: TLS and VPNs
    • Network monitoring and detection

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Digital Forensics and Incident Response

    How investigators handle digital evidence and respond to an attack: collecting the most fragile evidence first, reading disks and hashes, rebuilding a timeline from logs, and running an incident response.

    Prerequisites: no set prerequisites

    What you'll learn (5 topics)
    • Evidence handling
    • Disk artefacts
    • Hashing and integrity
    • Logs and timelines
    • Incident response

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    Software Exploitation and Reverse Engineering

    How memory bugs work and how defenders find and close them: stack frames and overruns, calling conventions, reading disassembly, mitigations and fuzzing, all on an invented machine.

    Prerequisites: no set prerequisites

    What you'll learn (6 topics)
    • Memory layout and buffer overruns
    • Calling conventions and the stack
    • Reading disassembly
    • Mitigations: canaries, ASLR, no-execute and CFI
    • Static analysis, dynamic analysis and fuzzing
    • Malware analysis: entropy, indicators, sandboxes and triage

  • Ready to learn · Level 3 · 6 points

    IT Research Methods and Thesis Skills

    How to do research in IT: forming a question, reviewing the literature, designing an experiment, analysing numbers and interviews, treating participants ethically and planning a thesis, all on invented studies.

    Prerequisites: no set prerequisites

    What you'll learn (5 topics)
    • Research questions and the literature review
    • Experimental design and threats to validity
    • Quantitative analysis
    • Qualitative methods
    • Ethics, privacy and thesis planning