Cybersecurity

Fall 2020 / Spring 2021

Cybersecurity

Fall 2020 / Spring 2021

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Saturday PD Sessions

Please attend one of these virtual Saturday sessions:

  • Saturday, October 3 at Noon
  • Saturday, October 10 at Noon

Zoom link: Meeting ID 967 2771 1209

Preliminaries

  1. Pre-Assessment

Please allocate 45 minutes of synchronous/in-class time for your students to complete the pre-test at this location:

Unit 0 - Introduction

  1. Intro
  2. Computer Hardware
  3. Operating Systems
  4. Setting up a Raspberry Pi
  5. Installing a Virtual Machine

Unit 1 - Linux

  1. Intro to Linux
  2. Command-line Crash Course
  3. Lab Assessment

Unit 2 - Encoding Data

  1. Binary Encodings
  2. Units of Information
  3. Representing Images
  4. Representing Text
  5. Assessment

Unit 3 - Crypto

  1. Intro to Crypto
  2. Exercise
  3. Research Project

Unit 4 - Digital Citizenship

  1. Introduction
  2. Online Advertising and Tracking
  3. Security Principles
  4. Social Media and Ethics
  5. Internet Behavior
  6. Assessment

Unit 5 - Networking

  1. Intro to Networking
  2. Networking Hardware
  3. Protocols
  4. Websites
  5. Common Attacks
  6. Social Engineering
  7. Network Security
  8. Wireshark
  9. Assessment

Unit 6 - Forensics

  1. Intro to Forensics
  2. Digital Forensic Investigations
  3. Legal Issues
  4. Memory Forensics
  5. Programming Intro
  6. Reverse Engineering
  7. Assessment

Unit 7 - Emerging Technologies

  1. Blockchain
  2. Artificial Intelligence
  3. Quantum Computing
  4. Assessment

Unit 8 - Wrap-up

  1. IT Fundamentals Exam
  2. Legal Cybersecurity