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Syllabus — Cyber Security

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BCC301 / BCC401 · 2 credits · L-T-P 2-0-0

Course Outcomes

At the end of course , the student will be able to

CO 1Understand the basic concepts of cyber security and cybercrimes.K K 1, 2
CO 2Understand the security policies and cyber laws.K K 1, 2
CO 3Understand the tools and methods used in cyber crimeK 2
CO 4Understand the concepts of cyber forensicsK K 1, 2
CO 5Understand the cyber security policies and cyber lawsK 2

Course Content

UnitTopicLecture
IINTRODUCTION TO CYBER CRIME : Cybercrime- Definition and Origins of the word Cybercrime and Information Security, Who are Cybercriminals? Classifications of Cybercrimes, A Global Perspective on Cybercrimes, Cybercrime Era: Survival Mantra for the Netizens. Cyber offenses: How Criminals Plan the Attacks, Social Engineering, Cyber stalking, Cybercafe and Cybercrimes, Botnets: The Fuel for Cybercrime, Attack Vector.04
IICYBER CRIME : Mobile and Wireless Devices-Introduction, Proliferation of Mobile and Wireless Devices, Trends in Mobility, Credit Card Frauds in Mobile and Wireless Computing Era, Security Challenges Posed by Mobile Devices, Registry Settings for Mobile Devices, Authentication Service Security, Attacks on Mobile/Cell Phones, Mobile Devices: Security Implications for organizations, Organizational Measures for Handling Mobile, Organizational Security Policies and Measures in Mobile Computing Era.04
IIITOOLS AND METHODS USED IN CYBERCRIME : Introduction, Proxy Servers and Anonymizers, Phishing, Password Cracking, Keyloggers and Spywares, Virus and Worms, Trojan-horses and Backdoors, Steganography, DoS and DDoS At-tacks, SQL Injection, Buffer Overflow, Attacks on Wireless Networks. Phishing and Identity Theft: Introduction to Phishing, Identity Theft (ID Theft).04
IVUNDERSTANDING COMPUTER FORENSICS: Introduction, Digital Forensics Science, The Need for Computer Forensics, Cyber forensics and Digital Evidence, Forensics Analysis of E-Mail, Digital Forensics Life Cycle, Chain of Custody Concept, Network Forensics, Approaching a Computer Forensics Investigation. Forensics and Social Networking Sites: The Security/Privacy Threats, Challenges in Computer Forensics.04
VINTRODUCTION TO SECURITY POLICIES AND CYBER LAWS : Need for An Information Security Policy, Introduction to Indian Cyber Law, Objective and Scope of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023, Intellectual Property Issues, Overview of Intellectual Property Related04

Legislation in India, Patent, Copyright, Trademarks.

Text Books

  1. Sunit Belapure and Nina Godbole, “Cyber Security: Understanding Cyber Crimes, Computer Forensics And Legal Perspectives”, Wiley India Pvt Ltd, ISBN: 978-81- 265-21791, Publish Date 2013.
  2. Basta, Basta, Brown, Kumar, Cyber Security and Cyber Laws, 1st edition , Cengage Learning publication
  3. Dr. Surya PrakashTripathi, RitendraGoyal, Praveen Kumar Shukla, KLSI. “Introduction to information security and cyber laws”. Dreamtech Press. ISBN: 9789351194736, 2015.
  4. Cyber Security and Date Privacy by Krishan Kumar Goyal , Amit Garg , Saurabh Singhal , HP HAMILTON LIMITED Publication, ISBN-13-978-1913936020
  5. Thomas J. Mowbray, “Cybersecurity: Managing Systems, Conducting Testing
  6. Investigating Intrusions”, Copyright © 2014 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc, ISBN: 978 - 1-118 -84965 -1.
  7. James Graham, Ryan Olson, Rick Howard, “Cyber Security Essentials”, CRC Press, 15-Dec 2010.
  8. Anti- Hacker Tool Kit (Indian Edition) by Mike Shema, McGraw-Hill Publication.

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