Topic outline

  • General

  • Introduction to Cybersecurity

    - Definition

    - Types of threats

    - Security services

    - Security mechanisms

  • Classical encryption

    - Cryptography

    - History

    - Techniques:

    • Substitution
    • Transposition
  • Modern encryption - Part 1

    - Key management

    - Block cipher modes

  • Modern encryption - Part 2

    - Symmetric key encryption

    • DES, AES Algorithms

    - Asymmetric key encryption

    • RSA Algorithm

  • Miscellaneous

    - Hash function

    - Digital signature

    - Cryptanalysis

    - Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)