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Foundations of Cybersecurity 1
About the course
This is a mandatory course of all Bachelor Cybersecurity students. Any other students may be unable to take the CP associated with the lecture, please check the LSF to see if your course of study is listed.In this course, students will learn foundational security principles, the basics of cryptography, receive an introduction to networks and network security, and explore privacy-preserving mechanisms. Additionally, students will acquire programming skills in Python.
By the end of the course, students should be able to define security goals and become familiar with the most common attack scenarios.
Beware: this lecture only starts in the third week of the semester (November 6) due the perfect alignment of the semester start, the school holidays, and the lecturer's desire to take a vacation with his school-going daughter.
Time and Location
The lecture is held in HS 0.02 on Monday 12:15 - 13:45 and Tuesday 10:15 - 11:45.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
- 23.10. - 1.11.2023 no lectures
- 06.11.2023 Organization, Information Security Goals, Legal Aspects in Germany
- 07.11.2023 - Python 1
- 13.11.2022 - Basic of Crypography 1
- 14.11.2023 - Python 2
- 20.11.2023 - Basic of Crypography 2
- 21.11.2023 - Python 3
- 27./28.11.2023 no lectures
- 04.12.2023 - Basic of Crypography 3
- 05.12.2023 - Python 4
- 11.12.2023 - Basics of Cryptography 4
- 12.12.2023 - Python 5
- 18.12.2023 - Authentication
- 19.12.2023 - Python 6
- 02.1.2024 - Network Security 1
- 08.1.2024 - Python 7
- 09.1.2024 - Network Security 2
- 15.1.2024 - Network Security 3
- 16.1.2024 - Network Security 4
- 22.1.2024 - Network Security 5
- 23.1.2024 - no lecture
- 29.1.2024 - Network Security 6
- 30.1.2024 - Web Security 1
- 05.2.2024 - Web Security 2
- 06.2.2024 - Q/A session, exam preparation
- 19.2.2024 - tentative main exam
- 12.4.2024 - tentative backup exam
See the time table for further information.
Grading and Exam information
There will be a final exam at the end of the semester, which will determine the course grade. To be eligible for the exam, and subsequently, to earn course credits, you need to score at least 50% of the available points on all 12 exercise sheets, with a maximum of two sheets being allowed to be skipped, and achieve 50% of the points from the Python exercises.
Registration
You can register for this course in the CMS until Tuesday, November 1, 2023, at 23:59.