Operational Security (5 cr)

Evaluation scale

H-5

Content scheduling

The course consists of contact lectures and contact laboratory sessions. There will be 9 lectures, which will cover theory and technologies behind Operational Security in the context of Security Operations Centers. In 5 laboratory sessions, students will practice detecting and reporting anomalies found in IT systems through laboratory assignments.

The course will begin on week 22/2024 and end by week 50/2024.

Objective

After completing the course the student:
- is able identify and mitigate cyber threats in networks
- can detect cyber threats and defend against them
- can recognize Internet-based cyber threats such as denial of service attacks and mitigate them

Content

Students will protect enterprise-level network against cyber attacks. Students learn to detect network attacks and successfully defend against them.
In the lab exercises students
- configure firewalls and intrusion detection systems
- monitor network activities and detect cyber attacks
- react when network attack is happening

Materials

Learning material consists of material produced by the Lecturer as well as extra material obtainable from TUAS resources (ebooks).

Teaching methods

Learning is achieved through contact lectures, written home assignments and laboratory assignments.