Announcements
- Lecture 1, Securing Data, is now available.
- Complete Quiz 1 by 2023-09-21T23:59:00-04:00.
- Attend one section for this lecture during the week of September 18.
- Submit Assignment 1 by 2023-10-01T23:59:00-04:00.
- Be sure you’ve familiarized yourself with the course’s syllabus, particularly its provisions concerning academic honesty, lateness, and extensions.
Description
The course is an introduction to cybersecurity for technical and non-technical audiences alike. Students learn how to secure their accounts, data, systems, and software against today’s threats and how to recognize and evaluate tomorrow’s as well, both at home and at work. Students learn how to preserve their own privacy. Students learn to view cybersecurity not in absolute terms but relative, a function of risks and rewards (for an adversary) and costs and benefits (for them), and to recognize cybersecurity as a trade-off with usability itself. The course presents both high-level and low-level examples of threats, providing students with all they need to know technically to understand both. Assignments are inspired by real-world events.
Table of Contents
Securing Accounts
- Watch Lecture 0 on or after Tue 9/5.
- Complete Quiz 0 by 2023-09-07T23:59:00-04:00.
- Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
- Optionally attend office hours.
- Complete Assignment 0 by 2023-09-17T23:59:00-04:00.
Securing Data
- Watch Lecture 1 on or after Mon 9/18.
- Complete Quiz 1 by 2023-09-21T23:59:00-04:00.
- Attend section, live and with webcam and audio enabled (per sections’ norms).
- Optionally attend office hours.
- Complete Assignment 1 by 2023-10-01T23:59:00-04:00.