Admission requirements
Admission only after intake, please see our website.
Admission only for those students who are enrolled in the technical track.
Description
This course is a showcase of different case studies and applications in cyber security. It provides a guided exploration of several important topics, building on knowledge and experience obtained in the previous courses of the programme. The main goal is that students translate and apply their theoretical knowledge and technical skills in specific case studies.
Case studies are selected each year to reflect important industry developments and complement the programme. Among the topics that we can explore in this course are mobile system security, threat modeling, cyber threat intelligence, data integrity in the cloud, and blockchain security. Final list of the case studies included will be finalized by the start of the course.
This course also pays attention to scientific research design and technical report writing. Students will design their own case study on a topic of their choice, and write a report about this investigation. They will write a primarily technical report, formulating a research question, reporting their findings and positioning these findings with respect to the state of the art. Students will also develop a comprehensive security policy proposal for an organization, outlining not only technical, but also governance, legal, and human behavior-related policy considerations. In addition to the report, the students will give a presentation about their findings to both staff and their colleagues.
Course objectives
Participants have:
- understanding of cyber threats and vulnerabilities, incidents and their potential impact in specific application domains (case studies)
Participants are able to:
identify in a practical case possible cyber threats, translate them to technical requirements, and the latter to security measures, taking the non-technical aspects into account
translate and apply theoretical knowledge of cyber security to professional practice
weigh business and security risks and to define technical requirements
translate technical understanding into a multidisciplinary security policy
Timetable
On the right-hand side of the programme front page of the E-Prospectus you will find a link to the online timetables.
Mode of instruction
Lectures, seminars, exercises, class discussion
Lecturers: Dr. Olga Gadyatskaya (Leiden Inst. Advanced Computer Sciences) and Dr. Zeki Erkin (TU Delft)
Assessment method
presentation of individual project
20% of final grade
grade must be compensated
re-sit not possible
report on individual project
45% of final grade
grade must be 5.50 or higher to pass the course
re-sit of a fail is possible
Re-sit will take the same form
report on one of case studies
35% of final grade
grade must be 5.50 or higher to pass the course
re-sit of a fail is possible
re-sit will take the same form
Only assessments with the weight of 30% and lower are compensable. This means that one does not have to pass an assessment if it weighs 30% or less in order to pass the course, if the average of all assessments combined is at least a 5.5. In addition, assignments weighing up to and including 30% cannot be re-taken, meaning that if one failed an assessment of 30% or less, one is not allowed to redo it and that assessment must be compensated by the other assessment(s).
Reading list
Compulsory literature and literature for further consultation will be announced via Brightspace.
Registration
No registration is required for lectures and exams.
Contact
Remarks
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