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Course Detail

Course Name Special Topics in Cyber Security
Course Code 26CY765
Program M. Tech. in Cyber Security
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Syllabus

Information Technology and IPR, Intellectual Property Law, privacy law and data protection, statistical inference in databases, Private information retrieval viewed as a database access problem, Privacy in data publishing, Virtual Private Databases, access control in databases, Privacy issues in citizen digital data, eIDAS and digital trust services, lockers, electronic voting, digital cash, health and other societal digital information, Information & cyber warfare, social engineering attacks, Quantum computers, cyber security during crisis & pandemic, detection of fake news & misinformation, cyber-attacks on ICS & critical infrastructure, state-level cyber operations & cyber weapons, threat detection & response, Digital trust & safety, digital privacy & ethics, ethics in cyberspace, Information Protection Bill, data security governance-CMMC, Supply-chain attacks, Password less & hardware based authentication, Ethical hacking tools & techniques, Significant case studies & hands-on experience using tools/packages for each module, IDPR, trans-border data flow issues.

Objectives and Outcomes

Prerequisite

26CY602: Network Security, 26CY613: Concepts in System Security

 

Course Outcome
Course Outcome Bloom’s

Taxonomy Level

CO 1 Understanding privacy law & data protection, trans border data flow issues L2
CO 2 Understanding the social engineering attacks, supply-chain attacks L4
CO 3 Cyber-attacks on ICS & critical infrastructure L4
CO 4 Understanding data security governance, the Information Protection Bill L4
CO 5 Hands-on experience in Ethical hacking tools & techniques L4
CO-PO Mapping

CO-PO Mapping

CO/PO

PO 1 PO 2 PO 3 PO 4 PO 5 PO 6 PO 7 PO 8 PO 9 PO 10 PSO1 PSO2 PSO3
CO 1 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 1 1 1
CO 2 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2
CO 3 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 2
CO 4 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 3 3 3
CO 5 2 2 3 3 3 1 1 1 3 3 3

Text Books / References

  1. Easttom, Chuck. Computer security fundamentals. Pearson IT Certification, 2019.
  2. Whyte, Christopher, A. Trevor Thrall, and Brian M. Mazanec, eds. Information Warfare in the Age of Cyber Conflict. Routledge, 2020.
  3. Stuttard, Dafydd, and Marcus Pinto. The web application hacker’s handbook: Finding and exploiting security flaws. John Wiley & Sons, 2011.
  4. Look, Burt G. Handbook of SCADA/control systems security. CRC Press, 2016.
  5. Eddison, Leonard. Tor And The Deep Web: The Complete Guide To Stay Anonymous In The Dark Net. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018.
  6. M. Gertz and S. Jajodia, Handbook of Database Security-Applications and Trends, Springer, 2008.

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