Principles of cybersecurity, 7.5 hp

This course will give the students a broad overview of the subject of cybersecurity, and how the subject relates to other parts of the IT security area.

• The threats - who, where, why?
• Systems and their weaknesses
• Preventive defenses - cryptography, AAA, network security, firewalls
• Organisational defenses - policies, training
• Monitoring, patching.

Part of the course is based on the Cisco Network Academy Program course Cyberops Associate

The course focuses mostly on personal computers and servers. Microsoft Windows is the main OS that is studied in this course.