Topic outline

  • The course focuses on overall understanding of cybersecurity including different types of threats and solutions and the evaluation of technological solutions. After the course students are expected to understand digital security.

    The course consists of a preliminary exercise, five lecture days in April and May, three group exercises (one of which is a case study project) and two individual exercises. Attending all the lecture days (for the whole time!) is mandatory, and compensating an absence is generally not possible. All exercises are mandatory as well, and deadlines must be met! Group members will also grade each other, and this may have an effect on the overall grading as well.

    The course is graded pass/fail.


    This is a very high-level course; there are other courses that are much more technical. Some of these include:

    CS-C3130  Information Security
    CS-E4160  Laboratory Works in Networking and Security
    CS-E4300  Network Security
    CS-E4310  Mobile Systems Security
    CS-E4320
     Cryptography and Data Security
    CS-E4330  Special course on information security
    ELEC-E7330  Laboratory Course in Internet Technologies


    NB: All texts you submit must be written by you (in the case of group exercises, your group) in their entirety. Quotations are okay, as long as they are clearly marked as such.

    Hand in all personal and group assignments as PDF files (slide shows can be PowerPoint files as well).


    The responsible teacher for this course is Professor Jarno Limnéll. The course assistant is Juho Kaivosoja.


    The schedules for the lecture days can be found in their own sections (in the menu on the left).

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