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About the Course

This course provides learners with a baseline understanding of common cyber security threats, vulnerabilities, and risks. An overview of how basic cyber attacks are constructed and applied to real systems is also included. Examples include simple Unix kernel hacks, Internet worms, and Trojan horses in software utilities. Network attacks such as distributed denial of service (DDOS) and botnet- attacks are also described and illustrated using real examples from the past couple of decades. Familiar analytic models are outlined such as the confidentiality/integrity/availability (CIA) security threat framework, and examples are used to illustrate how these different types of threats can degrade real assets. The course also includes an introduction to basic cyber security risk analysis, with an overview of how threat-asset matrices can be used to prioritize risk decisions. Threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks are examined and mapped in the context of system security engineering methodologies....

Top reviews

HI

Mar 3, 2020

I'm so glad I could complete this course as I look forward to continuing other courses on Cyber attacks. Its been helpful as it gave me the background knowledge as to what is needed in Cyber Security.

PH

Jun 27, 2020

Ed is a very engaging instructor and tries to make the content applicable and understandable. I would recommend this course for anyone who is looking for an introduction to the world of cybersecurity!

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By Ralph B

May 13, 2020

A good introduction.

By Oiza F Y

Dec 9, 2020

A very good course

By Abhishek S

May 23, 2023

Fantastic teacher

By Jerroll D

Feb 7, 2022

great information

By Narendra G B

Jul 23, 2019

Very nice Course.

By Charles M

Apr 7, 2023

well explained

By ABHIJEET S

Apr 24, 2021

Nice content.

By SAPTARSHI D

Jul 6, 2019

Great course

By Nitin k t

Sep 11, 2023

good course

By Farhan I

Nov 2, 2022

very good

By NADIYAH M G A

Aug 16, 2022

very good

By Muhammad F

Oct 7, 2022

not bad

By Filippo P

Oct 6, 2018

basic

By TienMDHE180359

Nov 20, 2023

good

By JANANEE V (

Oct 23, 2021

Good

By Adam L

Aug 4, 2021

Cool

By Faraz B

Apr 24, 2020

Good

By Cheru B

Jul 17, 2019

Fab

By uday p g

Jan 8, 2022

4

By Graham H

Jul 30, 2022

Dear Professor Ed,

Thank you for this class. I have some thoughts about it:

Shoehorning "Fraud" into the CIA model is not useful. Fraud is simply a breach of confidentiality and sometimes availability. It's not a separate category, and framing it as one muddies the waters.

At least 2 of the required reading links in this course have expired. I haven't found any tools that will accept a list of URLs and notify you if any of them begin to 404, but it would be trivial to write such a piece of code to run as a service somewhere. Then you'll know if students aren't able to access the resources of your class anymore. Of course, the other option would be for you or NYU to self-host the PDFs required in this course instead of relying on 3rd party sites.

Overall, I thought this was a good introdution to cybersecurity. I wish it had covered more material but it has certainly piqued my interest and I will be taking other courses in this specialization. Thank you Professor Ed!

Sincerely,

Graham Home

By M. D

Jul 8, 2020

Everything is great except the tests. They were thoughtful in the start of the course - meaning that getting a question wrong and revisiting the relevant material would a) produce a correct answer b) help you understand why the first answer you chose was incorrect, and c) your *second* attempt would be correct. By the final, those properties were absent. We were being graded on questions that the professor had stated was _subjective_, there was not enough information about the hypothetical company we were supposed to create an analysis of, and I am pretty sure one of 9 questions was _not possible to answer correctly_ since it had only three answers and by trying multiple times over two days, I was able to try all three and all three were wrong?

By Britta G

Feb 10, 2020

The content and the videos are great and it is a fun to learn. But the quizzes inside the videos and the weekly ones are a catastrophy. For some questions there are no correct answers and for other questions a solution that was marked correct in the first try is marked wrong the next and correct again on the 3rd round. And the worst is that there is no support in the discussion forum. The existing problems seem to be old but were never fixed.

By Isabelle B

Mar 7, 2021

The videos are very clear in explaining the module content, but the follow-up reading could be difficult to understand, especially for someone who would be completely new to computer networks. Also, many of the links to papers and videos don't work anymore. Sometimes other classmates would help provide working links in the class discussion forums, but most of the time we just can't find the required reading material.

By Wolfgang G

May 24, 2018

Interesting course, engaging lecturer. Needs some polish, however. Test questions are often confusingly phrased (perhaps on purpose? would be a questionable pedagogical principle) and not well aligned with the lectures, not noticeable support in the discussion forums. The additional reading material was interesting, but seemed quite random and not really coordinated with the course content.

By Ricardo d S L

Dec 17, 2020

Eduard have a nice way to explain those subject. He is really a good teacher. I just think that it should be better if this course had some practical task, e.g. like programing. Another problem is about the TCP/IP book recommendation. In fact, this is a great book, but the time to read each chapter is much greater than what is recommended in this course.