Course content

• Cyber security terminology and history.
• Legal and ethical issues in cybersecurity.
• Vulnerability in digital infrastructures.
• Identities, authentication and authorization.
• Human aspects of cybersecurity.
• Basic threat profiling and risk analysis.
• Future visions for a more secure digital society.
• Team collaboration, team building and team development.
• Work contract and conflict prevention.
• Project as a form of work (establishment, implementation, administration and control)
• Written and oral presentation.
• Copyright.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

• K1: The candidate can explain how to establish and carry out projects
• K2: The candidate can explain different models for team collaboration and team development
• K3: The candidate can explain the most used concepts in cybersecurity and the subject's most important historical development
• K4: The candidate can explain how vulnerabilities in digital infrastructures can arise and how the most common vulnerabilities can be counteracted

Skills

• S1: The candidate can convey subject matter effectively orally and in writing, obtain information to shed light on issues, and safeguard copyright in their communication
• S2: The candidate can carry out and document teamwork and reflect on their own professional practice and develop this based on feedback from others
• S3: The candidate can carry out basic threat profiling and risk analysis
• S4: The candidate can use tools to protect identities against common security attacks

General competence

• G1: The candidate can plan and complete tasks in team
• G2: The candidate can give constructive feedback to others
• G3: The candidate can explain societal vulnerability as a consequence of cybersecurity challenges

Learning methods and activities

Lectures, teamwork with and without supervision, project work, problem solving individually and in groups, lab activities.

Specific conditions

Course materials

Given at the start of the course.

Credit reductions