Cybersecurity - KAIE9M03

Goal(s)

• Raise awareness of industrial and social issues linked to cybersecurity.
• Identify the main types of software vulnerabilities and their consequences.
• Know elementary attack techniques and their countermeasures.
• Know how to use vulnerabilities detection methods for your own source code.
• Acquire notions of cryptography usage.
• Know available resources for cybersecurity in a business environment.

Content(s)

This cours is an initiation to issues, concepts and some technical aspects linked to cybersecurity, where study the following elements:

• Institutional, industrial and social issues linked to cybersecurity.
• Process and system security, security properties
• Attacks and vulnerabilities 1 : software vulnerabilities and countermeasures
  -- memory management vulnerabilities, code and command injection
• Attacks and vulnérabilities 2 : hardware vulnerabilities and countermeasures
  -- side-channel attacks, speculative execution attacks
• Symmetric Cryptography: hash functions and symmetric ciphers
  -- main algorithms, cipher modes, sécurity properties, indistiguishability
• Public-key Cryptography: key-exchange, signature, certificate-based authentication
  -- hard problems, discrete logarithm, post-quantum cryptography
• Initiation to code analysis tools for security assessments

• Microprocessor architecture
• C and Assembly language programming
• Basic knowledge of the Compiling process for the C language
• Mathematics:
  - binary algebra and boolean logic
  - elementary arithmetic, polynomials, linear algebra