Practical cyber-security; no lectures, no theory. 2 hours of labs a week in Erskine 339.
Half finding holes; half setting up security infrastructure (focus on VPNs, IoT).
Labs 9-11 and 11-1 Wednesday, session in the weekend for catch-up.
4 lab reports, 15% each (but some topics are bigger). 8 weeks of work in 7 weeks (term 1) with Ray Hunt, so may require weekend sessions.
Richard Green doing 3 topics in 4 weeks in term 2; covered in exam (40%).
Section 1 course content:
- Wireless/mobile LANs
- Crack passwords exchanged during authentication
- Enterprise architecture - design, setup
- VPNs
- OpenVPN
- SSL-VPN
- IPSec-VPN
- IKEv2-VPN
- IoT
- Switches, lights, thermostats, video cameras, door-locks (bluetooth), music players
- Intercepting and modifying traffic
- Smartcards
- Mifare smartcards