CITS3004
Cybersecurity
Alvaro Monsalve
CITS3004 Admin
Unit Coordinator: David Glance
Lecturer: Alvaro Monsalve
alvaro.monsalveballester@uwa.edu.au
• Office: G15
• Office hours: Tuesday 08:00 to 12:00
Request your consultation via
“Consultation Request” Channel of Teams
Lab Facilitators:
• Office: not yet
• Office hours: arrange via email –
– Alex Brown: 21955725@student.uwa.edu.au
– Haolin Wu: haolin.wu@uwa.edu.au
2Alex Haolin
3Timetable
Please note: Lectures are
delivered ONLINE and will
be available at the
beginning of each week
Students with unallocated
Labs:
Please choose a time from
the purple Lab options
*note: Monday and Friday labs are
a reserve, it will be allocated if the
enrolment numbers go up.
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4Assessments
Assessment Item When Covers Worth (total)
Assignments 30%
- Labs (10) Weekly (no 6, 12) Each week 10%
- Project Out in Week 8
Due Week 11
Cyberattack topic 20%
Mid Semester Test Week 7 Up to week 6 (inc) 20%
Exam TBA Everything 50%
Please note, all dates are tentative and subject to change!
Course overview: Term 3
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Week Lecture Lab Assessments
1 Introduction Linux
2 Cryptography 1 Secret Key Ciphers
3 Cryptography 2 Public Key Ciphers
4 Cyberattacks 1 Hashing and Blockchain
5 Cyberattacks 2 BoF
6 Cyberattacks 3 Key Log & Ransomware
7 Defense Mechanisms 1 Sniffing and Spoofing Mid-Sem Test
8 Defense Mechanisms 2 TCP/IP Attacks Assignment out
9 Security Management Steganography
Labs start first week!
6Course overview: Term 4
Week Lecture Lab Assessments
10 Software Security
11 Emerging Security Issues IoT, AI (TBD) Assignment due
12 Unit overview Lab catch up
Break
Exam
7Prerequisites
• You should have understandings of computer networks and
operating systems.
– CITS3002 and CITS4407 are strongly recommended.
• This unit expects students to be knowledgeable in various
programming languages including Python and C.
• Background materials on those programming languages are
provided on LMS, should you need them.
• You should also be familiar with basic discrete mathematics.
• You are welcome to discuss with me to see if you have sufficient
background knowledge for this unit.
8Prerequisites
• "Students with no prior knowledge of python,
c were allowed in this unit despite heavily relying on
them during some of labs. "
– As noted before, you need to know them or be able to
learn them quickly in order to do well in this unit!
9Assignments - Labs
• Weekly labs:
– Lab Sheet with tasks to be completed within 1 week (Available from Monday).
– Lab Quiz (Due on Sunday at 23:59 of each week)
– Lab Quizzes are 10% of the total course marks (1% each)
• All on LMS
• Done during the lab times
– But you can do them on your own time too.
• Individual assessment
– You can discuss how to solve them with your peers
– If someone give you answers only, then they are distracting your learning
• Open book – Google is your friend
• Main focus to acquire knowledge and develop practical skills
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Assignments - Project
1. Cyberattack Assessment
– Capture the Flag Challenge
– A number of Tasks and Questions
– Given in week 8 (approx.)
– Due week 11 (approx.)
– Worth 20%
– Details to come in due course.
11
Mid Semester Test
• 60 minutes long (tbc)
• In week 7 (or possibly 8)
• Lecture still happening!
– But no new labs the week before (so no lab deadline)
• Cover materials up to week 7, but not including.
• Worth 20%
• Worth 50%
• Covers all materials
• 120 minutes long
• Course summary will cover possible questions in
week 12
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Exam
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References
• Not mandatory textbook
1. Online Content (Use Google)
Additional Bibliography (You are not required to purchase any of them):
1. M. Ciampa, CompTIA Security+ Guide to Network Security
Fundamentals, 5th, 6th or 7th editions.
2. J.M. Kizza, Guide to Computer Network Security, 5th Ed., Springer, 2020
3. M. Whitman & H. Mattford, Principles of Information Security, 6th Ed.,
2017
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