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Cybersecurity for citizens and professionals

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Cybersecurity for citizens and professionals

Arqus MOOC: Cybersecurity for citizens and professionals Syllabus Academics What will you achieve? What is included

Syllabus

Week 1: Basic concepts for cybersecurity

1/ What’s in Week 1

Learn about the cybersecurity field and understand its relevance in today’s digital world

2/ Introduction to Information security management

Learn about Information Security concepts and identify the key issues underlying its activities.

3/ Information Security Risk Management

Learn about Information Security Risk Management and the ENISA ITSRM method, including its application.

4/ Criptography

Learn the basics of cryptography and how to manage public and private keys.

5/ Wrap-up

Wrap-up of the week

Week 2: Cybersecurity in networks and end-systems

1/ End-point data protection

Learn about data protection mechanisms across operating systems, identify risks, and configure the right security tools.

2/ How to securely authenticate online

Learn about identity protection risks and apply authentication and authorization mechanisms across operating systems.

3/ Protecting your system

Learn how to apply defensive measures to protect end systems and understand malware concepts and protection strategies.

4/ Communication networks security

Learn how to identify main communication threats and configure basic defensive measures to mitigate network attacks.

5/ Wrap-up

Wrap-up of the week

Week 3: Cybersecurity in mobile devices

1/ Android OS Internals

Learn how the Android operating system works internally, gaining comprehensive knowledge of its architecture and components.

2/ Mobile Apps Static and Dynamic Techniques

Learn how to apply reverse-engineering techniques to Android applications, gaining practical, hands-on experience.

3/ Mobile Apps Reverse-Engineering Techniques

Learn how to use reverse-engineering techniques for Android applications, developing hands-on expertise in the process.

4/ Privacy Threats in Mobile Apps

Learn how to analyze mobile privacy threats, understand regulatory compliance, and use static and dynamic analysis methods to assess app compliance.

5/ Wrap-up

Wrap-up of week 3

Week 4: Cybersecurity in social networks

1/ Digital Identities

Learn how to inventory personal digital identities in a systemic way.

2/ Information Sharing

Learn how friend circles are defined as graphs and identify digital traces in everyday activities, understanding their implications.

3/ Social Engineering and Dark Patterns

Learn how to identify and understand the main cybersecurity threats specific to social networks and their potential impacts.

4/ Self-awareness on Social Media

Learn how to develop and propose effective strategies to enhance resilience against cybersecurity threats on social networks.

5/ Wrap-up

Wrap-up of week

Week 5: Rights, privacy and cyberintelligence

1/ Human and Digital Rights

Learn how human rights translate into cyberspace, understand the challenges involved, and explore the emerging need for new digital rights.

2/ Privacy aspects

Learn how to grasp fundamental privacy concepts, recognize potential privacy risks, and implement effective privacy protection techniques in the digital world.

3/ Cyberintelligence

Learn how to utilize cyberintelligence in cybersecurity, master intelligence-gathering techniques, analyze cyber threats, and extract actionable insights from real-world attacks.

4/ Wrap-up

Wrap-up week 5

Week 6: The market of cybersecurity

1/ Cybersecurity sector (I): The Underground Economy

Learn how malware operates as a business model, explore various monetization strategies, understand modern malware uses, and discover the underground economy supporting cybercrime as a commodity.

2/ Cybersecurity sector (II): Space

Learn how cybersecurity is crucial for space applications, understanding its importance and basic concepts in commercial satellite operations.

3/ Cybersecurity sector (III): Forensics

Learn how digital forensics operates across various sub-branches, exploring market solutions, current challenges, and the impact of AI on forensic techniques in computers, mobile devices, and multimedia.

4/ Cybersecurity sector (IV): Crypto

Learn how cryptography works, including its basic principles, common algorithms, applications in data security, communication protocols, and techniques for maintaining data integrity and authenticity.

5/ Cybersecurity sector (V): Cybersecurity controls assessment & ISO27001 Policies and Controls

Learn how to understand and assess cybersecurity controls, analyze ISO27001 policies, identify control activities and their purposes, and explore practical applications in organizational security.

Wrap-up

Synthesize and test what you learned this week and in the entire course

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