About the Course

Introduction

The course enlighten about the basic introduction to cyber security, cyber crime and Information Security. Classifications of Cybercrimes. An Indian Perspective, Hacking and Indian Laws., Global Perspectives. How Criminals Plan Them: Introduction, How criminals plan the attacks, Social Engineering, Cyber Stalking, Cyber Café & cybercrimes. Botnets: The fuel for cybercrime, Attack Vector. Tools and Methods used in Cybercrime: Introduction, Proxy Servers, Anonymizers, Phishing, Password Cracking, Key Loggers and Spyways, Virus and Worms, Trozen Horses and Backdoors, Steganography, DoS and DDOS Attackes, Attacks on Wireless networks. Phishing and Identity Theft: Introduction, methods of phishing, phishing,phising techniques, spear phishing, types of phishing scams, phishing toolkits and spy phishing, counter measures, Identity Theft. Understnading Computer Forensics: Introdcution, Historical Background of Cyberforensics, Digital Foresics Science, Need for Computer Foresics, Cyber Forensics and Digital Evidence, Digital Forensic Life cycle, Chain of Custody Concepts, network forensics.  This course is a Prerequisite for many courses and the same is shown in the link file. 

Prerequisite courses: Students are expected to be relatively fluent with the knowledge of Computer Applications.

Course Learning Objective

This course will enable students to

Syllabus

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Course Outcome

After studying this course, Students will be able to

Course Outcomes – Program Outcomes (CO-PO) Mapping

Continuous Internal Evaluation (CIE)

Blooms Taxonomy Levels

L1 - Remember

L2 - Understand

L3 - Apply

L4 - Analyze

L5 - Evaluate

L6 - Create

Course Utilization for CIE (Continuous Internal Evaluation) and SEE (Semester End Examination)

Percentage Cover of COs with respect to CIE-Tests and Assignments

Textbooks

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, 2011, First Edition (Reprinted 2018)