Computer System Security offered by IIT Kanpur
4.8 /5- Public/Government Institute
- Estd. 1959
Computer System Security at IIT Kanpur Overview
Duration | 16 hours |
Total fee | ₹4,237 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Credential | Certificate |
Computer System Security at IIT Kanpur Highlights
- Earn a certificate of completion from E & ICT Academy, IIT Kanpur
Computer System Security at IIT Kanpur Course details
- For professional graduate/post-graduate courses related to computer science or Information Technology
- For computer science and engineering teachers/faculties
- For IT professionals in the application development domain
- Discover software bugs that pose cybersecurity threats
- Discover cyber-attack scenarios to web browsers, and web servers
- Discover and explain cybersecurity holes in standard networking protocols
- Discover and explain mobile software bugs posing cybersecurity threats
- Articulate the urgent need for cybersecurity in critical computer systems, networks
- Articulate the well-known cyberattack incidents, explain the attack scenarios
- This course covers the fundamental concepts of Cyber Security and Cyber Defense. The course will cover Software and System Security, in which, you will learn about control hijacking attacks, which includes buffer overflow, integer overflow, bypassing browser, and memory protection
- Get some knowledge of what is Sandboxing and Isolation, what are the tools and techniques for writing robust application software
- Learn about what are the security vulnerability detection tools, and techniques which include program analysis (static, concolic, and dynamic analysis)
- The course will cover Network Security & Web Security, in which you will learn about Security Issues in TCP/IP, which includes TCP, DNS, Routing (Topics such as basic problems of security in TCP/IP, IPsec, BGP Security, DNS Cache poisoning, etc), Network Defense tools such as Firewalls, Intrusion Detection, Filtering
Computer System Security at IIT Kanpur Curriculum
Computer System Security Introduction
Introduction
Interview with Prof.Sandeep Shukla CSE IIT kanpur
What is computer security and what to learn?
Learning objectives
Sample Attacks
The Marketplace for vulnerabilities
Error 404 Hacking digital India part 1 chase
Module 01
Control Hijacking
More Control Hijacking attacks integer overflow
More Control Hijacking attacks format string vulnerabilities
Defense against Control Hijacking - Platform Defenses
Defense against Control Hijacking - Run-time Defenses
Advanced Control Hijacking attacks
Module 02
Confidentiality Policies
Confinement Principle
Detour Unix user IDs process IDs and privileges
More on confinement techniques
System call interposition
Error 404 digital Hacking in India part 2 chase
Module 03
VM based isolation
Confinement principle
Software fault isolation
Rootkits
Intrusion Detection Systems
Module 04
Secure architecture principles isolation and leas
Access Control Concepts
Are you sure you have never been hacked Sandeep Shukla
Unix and windows access control summary
Other issues in access control
Introduction to browser isolation
Module 05
Web security landscape
Web security definitions goals and threat models
HTTP content rendering
Browser isolation
Security interface
Cookies frames and frame busting
Module 06
Major web server threats
Cross site request forgery
Cross site scripting
Defenses and protections against XSS
Finding vulnerabilities
Secure development
Module 07
Basic cryptography
Public key cryptography
RSA public key crypto
Digital signature Hash functions
Public key distribution
Real world protocols
Basic terminologies
Email security certificates
Transport Layer security TLS
IP security
DNS security
Module 08
Internet infrastructure
Basic security problems
Routing security
DNS revisited
Summary of weaknesses of internet security
Link layer connectivity and TCP IP connectivity
Packet filtering firewall
Intrusion detection
Concluding remarks
Computer System Security at IIT Kanpur Entry Requirements
- Prerequisite: Some knowledge of Operating Systems
- Some elementary knowledge of English
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