Spring 2021
CS 6393: Cyber Security Foundations and Practice (Cross-Listed)
CS 4483: Cyber Security Foundations and Practice (Cross-Listed)
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Complete List of Lecture Units in Chronological Order

• Unit 1: Course and Cyber Security Overview. Weeks 1-2, ending 1/29/21.
  Total: 43 slides, 131 mins
  • Module 1.1: Course Overview (14 slides, 39 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 1.2: Cyber Security Objectives (9 slides, 18 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 1.3: Cyber Security Technologies (6 slides, 20 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 1.4: Cyber Security Terminology (6 slides, 17 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 1.5: Security Practice Stories and Lessons (8 slides, 37 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Readings: Full: How to spell cyber security?, Bishop-2003, Solms-Niekerk-2013, Sandhu-etal-2010
  
  
• Unit 2: The SSL Protocol and its Intrinisic Vulnerability. Weeks 3-4, ending 2/12/21.
  Total: 62 slides, 126 mins
  • Module 2.1: Crypto Essentials (14 slides, 43 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 2.2: Internet Security Protocols (9 slides, 13 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 2.3: SSL Architecture (11 slides, 16 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 2.4: SSL Handshake Protocol (18 slides, 34 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 2.5: SSL Man-in-the-Middle Attack (10 slides, 20 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Readings: Full: Hayes98
  • Readings: Ref: The TLS Protocol, Version 1.0, RFC 2246
  
  CAMPUS CLOSURE, Week of 2/19/21.
  
  SPRING BREAK, Week ending 3/12/21. Falls in the middle of Unit 3
  
  
• Unit 3: Access Control: DAC, MAC. Weeks 5-7, ending 3/19/21.
  Total: 54 slides, 96 mins
  • Module 3.1: Access Matrix Model (18 slides, 34 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 3.2: Access Control Models: Alphabet Soup (13 slides, 22 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 3.3: DAC and Trojan Horses (8 slides, 17 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Module 3.4: MAC and Covert Channels (15 slides, 23 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
  • Readings: Full: Sandhu and Samarati 1994
  • Readings: Ref: Sandhu 1993
  
  
• Unit 4: Access Control: RBAC, ABAC. Weeks 8-9, ending 4/02/21.
  Total: 40 slides, 87 mins
  • Module 4.1: RBAC (22 slides, 45 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
    • Readings: Full: RBAC96 OR equivalently Chapters 1 & 2 of Sandhu 98
    • Readings: Ref: NIST Standard 2001
  • Module 4.2: ABAC (18 slides, 42 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
    • Readings: Full: Hu et al 2015.
    • Readings: Ref: (i) Jin et al 2012, (ii) UCON 2004, and (iii) ABAC-ReBAC 2017.
  
  
• Unit 5: Detection Technologies. Weeks 10-11, ending 4/16/21.
  Total: 40 slides, 74 mins
  • Module 5.1: Base Rate Fallacy (17 slides, 28 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
    • Readings: Full: Axelsson 2000
    • Readings: Ref: Idika-Mathur-2007
  • Module 5.2: Intrusion Detection Evaluation (23 slides, 46 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
    • Readings: Full: Milenkoski et al 2015.
    • Readings: Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Receiver_operating_characteristic
  
  
• Unit 6: Cloud Enabled IoT Access Control. Weeks 12-14, ending 5/7/21.
  Total: 41 slides, xx mins
  • Module 6.1: Views of Cloud Computing (xx slides, xx mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
    • Readings: Full: NIST-SP800-145
    • Readings: Part: (i) Foster-et-al-2008, (ii) Armbrust-et-al-2010
  • Module 6.2: Access Control for Smart Home IoT: Introduction and GRBAC Model (24 slides, 45 mins): Slides with audio: pptx+audio Slides without audio: pptx pdf
    • Readings: Part: (i) Covington-2000, (ii) Covington-2001,
    • Readings: Ref: Safwa-2020.