KYBS2004 Authentication, passwords and applied cryptography (5 cr)

Summary

This course will teach the participants technologies and techniques how authentication and crypto is being broken/hacked in practice, and what are practical defence-in-depth approaches.

Breaking authentication, passwords and crypto in many cybersecurity situations have far-reaching implications up to complete compromise of any system. 

Completion methods and Course workload:

On-line course.

Exercise Assignment tasks: 5 * 3h = 15h

Final Report task: 10h

Online Assistance (Q&A): 5 * 2h = 10h

Self-study (includes going over materials of 10 lectures at own pace): 90h + 10 * 1h = 100 h

Students understood the background knowledge, techniques and tools that are indispensable for breaking and defending authentication, password, and crypto security.

Pre-Requisite Basic IT Knowledge (0-20) (or equivalent)

• Basic programming skills (5 op) (or equivalent)
• Basic OS/VM skills (5 op) (or equivalent)
• Networking Skills (5 op) (or equivalent)
• Basic Cloud Computing or database skills (5 op) (or equivalent)

Must-have:

• Computer Science
• Information Technology
• Basic and Main Security Concepts

Nice-to-have:

• Linux, command-line, SSH
• VMs, docker
• Kali, OWASP Top10, Metasploit, Nmap, XSS, SQLi
• ITKST56