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Change in tutorials: update your preferences

Written on 13.10.26 by Nicolas Gundall

Dear all,

we've been notified that the tutorial we scheduled on Fridays 10-12 collides with the MfI1 lecture for many students. Tutorial preferences also indicated that very few students could attend this slot. Consequently, we have decided to move this tutorial to Mondays 12-14 instead.

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Dear all,

Please make sure to update the tutorial preferences on your personal status page accordingly. You can adjust your preferences until the end of this Thursday's lecture.

First lecture tomorrow

Written on 12.10.26 by Nicolas Gundall

Hello everyone,

we have now updated all course information for this year, which can be found on the main page. The first lecture will take place tomorrow (Tuesday) from 10:15 to 11:45 in GHH (E2 2). It will start with further information regarding the organization of the course, and then go into… Read more

Hello everyone,

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 on Tuesday 10:15 - 11:45 (in E2 2 (GHH)) and on Thursday 14:15 - 15:45 (in E1 3 HS0.01).

The tentative schedule is as follows:

13.10. Organization, Information Security Goals, Legal Aspects in Germany
15.10. Basics of Cryptography 1 (Historic & Block Ciphers)
20.10. - Python 1 (Arithmetics & Strings)
22.10. - Basic of Cryptography 2 (Hashes & Diffie-Hellman)
27.10. - Python 2 (Boolean Logic, Lists, Basic Loops)
29.10. - Basic of Cryptography 3 (Public Key Crypto)
3.11. - Python 3 (Advanced Loops, Tuples, Sets, Dicts)
5.11. - Basic of Cryptography 4 (Digital Signatures & PKI)
10.11. - Python 4 (Exceptions, File Handling, Hashlib)
12.11. - Authentication
17.11. & 19.11. no lectures
24.11. - Python 5 (Importing, JSON, Requests)
26.11. - Network Security 1 (LAN, WLAN, DHCP)
1.12. - Python 6 (Regular Expressions)
3.12. - Network Security 2 (IPv4, IPv6, BGP)
From hereon in, no more lectures on Thursdays
8.12. - Network Security 3 (UDP, TCP, Firewalls)
15.12. - Network Security 4 (DNS)
5.1. - Network Security 5 (Denial of Service, TOR)
12.1. - Network Security 6 (TLS, HTTPS, Certificates)
19.1. - Web Security 1 (Server-Side Security)
26.1. - Web Security 2 (Client-Side Security)
2.2. - Q/A & Exam Preparation
16.2. - main exam (10-12)
25.3. - backup exam (10-12)

Tutorials

The available time slots for tutorials are Friday 12-14, Monday 10-12 and Monday 12-14. All tutorials take place in the CISPA building (E9.1). The Friday 12-14 and Monday 10-12 tutorials are in room 0.02; the Monday 12-14 tutorial is in the lecture hall (Room 0.05).

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 Wednesday, October 14, at 23:59.