Cybersecurity Course & Exercises Guide
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ScribdTranslationsCybersecurity Course & Exercises Guide
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ScribdTranslationsCybersecurity: course and
corrected exercises
Gildas Avoine
Vuibert
286 pages
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Cyber attacks are today one of the scourges of our civilization. Each
The week brings its share of alerts regarding vulnerabilities in system security.
information, exploited by hackers and other virus creators. These attacks affect
both individuals and businesses, with consequences for the latter
financial burdens that are sometimes very heavy. The education sector has become aware of the
the necessity to raise awareness among the generations of tomorrow about computer security. It is not about
not necessarily to train experts but rather to emphasize the related risks
to poor use and management of computer systems. The majority of the
incidents could indeed be avoided if basic notions of safety were
known. This work covers the fundamental aspects of computer security:
email, virus and antivirus; vulnerabilities of programs and networks;
firewall: address translation, filtering and proxy; cryptography; communications
secured; secured applications; security management. It relies on some
teaching of first and second cycle of computer science as well as knowledge of EU
network protocols. It offers over a hundred corrected exercises extracted from courses and exams.
from the Communication Systems section of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne
(EPFL).