Cybersecurity Fundamentals

Introduction

Introduction to Cybersecurity

• Data and information
• Data communication
• Computer network
• World Wide Web
• Internet
• W3 Consortium (W3C)
• Networking, W3 and internet relationship
• Information security
• World Wide Web Security
• Network Security
• Cybersecurity
• Information security to cybersecurity
• Role of risk analysis in cybersecurity
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Cybersecurity Landscape and Its Challenges

• History of computers and cybercrime
• Cybercrime – As a profession
• Cost of cybercrime
• Framework for analysing the cybercosts
• Various forms of cybercrimes
• Challenges in cybersecurity
• Cybercrime – As a Service
• Cybercrime underground black market
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Information Security and Intrusion Detection System

• Critical National Infrastructure
• Confidentiality-Integrity-Availability Triad
• Defensive Lifecycle
• Intrusion and its types
• Intrusion Detection system
• Characteristics of IDS
• Major types of Intrusion Detection System
• Host-based IDS versus Network-Based IDS
• Intrusion detection and prevention principles
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Cybercrime Source Identification Techniques

• Cyber forensic
• Intrusion activities
• Attribution and traceback
• Why attribution is difficult?
• Assumptions in traceback
• IP address and traceback mechanism
• Classification of traceback schemes
• Evaluation of IP Traceback Schemes
• Active response characteristics
• Sleepy Watermark Tracing (SWT)
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Stepping Stone Detection and Tracing System

• The problem of accountability
• Stepping stones
• Timing-based stepping stone detection approach
• Brute Force Content-based Algorithm
• Simple content-based algorithm
• Anomaly detection techniques
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions

Infrastructural Vulnerabilities and DDoS Flooding Attacks

• COTS software and internet security
• Shortfalls in internet structure
• Cooperative intrusion traceback and Response Architecture (CITRA)
• DDoS flooding attacks
• DDoS attacks on OSI layers
• Cyberwar
• Conclusion
• Points to remember
• Questions