Cybersecurity for Everyone (Free Course)

 

There are 6 modules in this course

Cybersecurity affects everyone, including in the delivery of basic products and services. If you or your organization want to better understand how to address your cybersecurity, this is the course for you and your colleagues to take -- from seasoned professionals to your non-technical colleagues.

Your instructor, Dr. Charles Harry, has served on the front lines with the NSA (National Security Agency) and as an expert advising corporate and institutional leaders on managing cybersecurity risk. And he brings a rare and engaging perspective to help you learn cybersecurity from the ground up.

Cybersecurity for Everyone lays the groundwork to understand and explore the key issues facing policy makers attempting to manage the problem of cybersecurity, from its technical foundations to the domestic and international policy considerations surrounding governance, privacy, and risk management, to applications for achieving the goals of an enterprise, an institution, or a nation. This course is designed for students with some or no background in information technology, whether a novice or active in the cybersecurity field (engineers and computer scientists will learn the broader context and business aspects of cybersecurity), and will provide the principles to understand the current debates shaping a rapidly evolving security landscape.

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Harvard University: CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity (Free Course)

 

About this course

This is CS50's introduction to cybersecurity for technical and non-technical audiences alike. Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats and how to recognize and evaluate tomorrow's as well, both at home and at work. Learn to view cybersecurity not in absolute terms but relative, a function of risks and rewards (for an adversary) and costs and benefits (for you). Learn to recognize cybersecurity as a trade-off with usability itself. Course presents both high-level and low-level examples of threats, providing students with all they need know technically to understand both. Assignments inspired by real-world events.

What you'll learn

• hacking, cracking
• social engineering, phishing attacks
• passcodes, passwords, SSO
• brute-force attacks, dictionary attacks
• biometrics
• multi-factor authentication, password managers
• ethical hacking
• (distributed) denial-of-service attacks
• viruses, worms, botnets
• SQL injection attacks
• port-scanning
• proxies, firewalls
• automatic updates
• closed-source, open-source software
• buffer-overflow attacks
• secure deletion
• hashing, salting
• secret-key, public-key encryption, digital signatures
• full-disk encryption, ransomware
• cookies, sessions, incognito mode
• anonymization, de-identification
• verification
• operating systems, app stores

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