Title: CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity

Location: US

Company: Harvard University

About this course:
This is CS50's introduction to cybersecurity for technical and non-technical audiences alike. Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats and how to recognize and evaluate tomorrow's as well, both at home and at work. Learn to view cybersecurity not in absolute terms but relative, a function of risks and rewards (for an adversary) and costs and benefits (for you). Learn to recognize cybersecurity as a trade-off with usability itself. Course presents both high-level and low-level examples of threats, providing students with all they need know technically to understand both. Assignments inspired by real-world events.

hacking, cracking

social engineering, phishing attacks

passcodes, passwords, SSO

brute-force attacks, dictionary attacks

biometrics

multi-factor authentication, password managers

ethical hacking

(distributed) denial-of-service attacks

viruses, worms, botnets

SQL injection attacks

port-scanning

proxies, firewalls

automatic updates

closed-source, open-source software

buffer-overflow attacks

secure deletion

hashing, salting

secret-key, public-key encryption, digital signatures

full-disk encryption, ransomware

cookies, sessions, incognito mode

anonymization, de-identification

verification

operating systems, app stores

An introduction to cybersecurity for technical and non-technical audiences alike.

Duration: 5 weeks

Skills:
- Cyber Security
- Usability

Curriculum:
- hacking, cracking
- social engineering, phishing attacks
- passcodes, passwords, SSO
- brute-force attacks, dictionary attacks
- biometrics
- multi-factor authentication, password managers
- ethical hacking
- (distributed) denial-of-service attacks
- viruses, worms, botnets
- SQL injection attacks
- port-scanning
- proxies, firewalls
- automatic updates
- closed-source, open-source software
- buffer-overflow attacks
- secure deletion
- hashing, salting
- secret-key, public-key encryption, digital signatures
- full-disk encryption, ransomware
- cookies, sessions, incognito mode
- anonymization, de-identification
- verification

- operating systems, app stores