B5793 - Cybersecurity M

Learning outcomes

In a digital world, every activity is vulnerable to cyber attacks. At the end of the course the students are able to know and evaluate the most dangerous cyber threats to the society and to specific organizations and industries. Moreover, they are expected to be able to design and build secure systems by adopting modern defensive strategies and technologies that are discussed in class and experimented in lab.

Course contents

Cyber scenario

Cybersecurity goals: information security and service availability

Analysis of cyber threats

(Too many) vulnerability issues

A top-down approach to cybersecurity

Cyber risk management

Qualitative and quantitative evaluation

Strategies, policies and technologies

Assessment and validation

Legal constraints you need to know

Modern approaches: Machine Learning for cybersecurity, Zero Trust, Deception

Competences and jobs related to cybersecurity

Readings/Bibliography

Slides, teacher's notes, book chapters, scientific articles and online resources indicated on the course website.

Teaching methods

The course consists of lectures and exercises in class. Interaction is appreciated and evaluated as a component of the final grade

Assessment methods

There are two alternatives.

(1) Analysis and discussion of a cybersecurity problem and oral exam

(2) Project (max 3 students), presentation of the results and discussion

The student interested to the option (2) must agree on the topic of the project with the teacher before the end of November and complete the assessment in the first exam session (by the end of February).

Teaching tools

All the teaching material is available to the students on Virtuale.

Office hours

See the website of Michele Colajanni