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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.
Time and Location
The lecture is held in E2 2 (GHH) on Monday 12:15 - 13:45 and on Tuesday 10:15 - 11:45.
The tentative schedule is as follows:
- 14.10. - 15.10. no lectures
- 21.10. Organization, Information Security Goals, Legal Aspects in Germany
- 22.10. Basics of Cryptography 1 (Historic & Block Ciphers)
- 28.10. - Python 1 (Arithmetics & Strings)
- 29.10. - Basic of Cryptography 2 (Hashes & Diffie-Hellman)
- 4.11. - Python 2 (Boolean Logic, Lists, Basic Loops)
- 5.11. - Basic of Cryptography 3 (Public Key Crypto)
- 11.11. - Python 3 (Advanced Loops, Tuples, Sets, Dicts)
- 12.11. - Basic of Cryptography 4 (Digital Signatures & PKI)
- 18.11. - Python 4 (Exceptions, File Handling, Hashlib)
- 19.11. - Authentication
- 25.11.-3.12. no lectures
- 9.12. - Python 5 (Importing, JSON, Requests)
- 10.12. - Network Security 1 (LAN, WLAN, DHCP)
- 16.12. - Python 6 (Regular Expressions)
- 17.12. - Network Security 2 (IPv4, IPv6, BGP)
- 6.1. - Network Security 3 (UDP, TCP, Firewalls)
- 7.1. - Network Security 4 (DNS)
- 13.1. - Network Security 5 (Denial of Service, TOR)
- 14.1. - Network Security 6 (TLS, HTTPS, Certificates)
- 20.1. - Web Security 1 (Server-Side Security)
- 21.1. - no lecture
- 27.1. - Web Security 2 (Client-Side Security)
- 28.1. - no lecture
- 3.2. - Q/A & Exam Preparation
- 17.2. - main exam (10-12)
- 4.4. - backup exam (10-12)
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.
Any changes to this will be announced in the first lecture.
Registration
You can register for this course in the CMS until Friday, October 25, at 23:59.