Cybersecurity

  • Introduction to security
    • historical development of cybersecurity
    • mapping of targets, and motives behind cyberattacks
      Cybersecurity threats
    • Vulnerabilities of the Internet
    • common cyber-security threats to individuals and institutions
    • Distributed Denial of Service’ (DDoS), phishing, e-scams, and identity theft.
      Cybercrime
  • Cybercrime classification
    • Analyses of economic and social impacts
    • Existing legal frameworks at the global and regional levels
    • International cooperation frameworks
    • Law enforcement approaches, computer investigation, and e-forensics
      Security of the core Internet infrastructure and critical infrastructure
    • Critical components of the Internet work
    • Political dimension of global security
  • Control over the DNS
    • Technical vulnerabilities of the DNS
  • Security and protection of the critical infrastructure
    • Internet infrastructure
    • Internet of Things/Next Generation Networks and ‘smart networks’