Cybersecurity is important for our daily lives including various types of activities. There is a growing demand for students who can be researchers and engineers capable of understanding cybersecurity.
In order to satisfy this demand, Tokyo Tech has launched Progressive Graduate Minor in Cybersecurity in April 2016. We design the curriculum of Progressive Graduate Minor in Cybersecurity in collaboration with NRI as the core, also with Rakuten, NTT, AIST, and NISC. The following six courses are organized in School of Computing: Foundation of Cybersecurity (1Q, 2-0-0), Theory of Cryptography for Cybersecurity (3Q, 2-0-0), Cybersecurity Governance (3Q, 1-1-0), Attack and Defense on Cybersecurity I (2Q, 1-1-0), Attack and Defense on Cybersecurity II (3Q, 1-1-0), and Attack and Defense on Cybersecurity III (4Q, 1-1-0).
This course is one of the core courses in this minor and focuses on web security, one of the most important elements of cybersecurity. In particular, we first focus on OWASP Top 10, which represents a broad consensus about the most critical security risks to web applications. Then, based on it, the students will acquire practical knowledge on the attack and the defence on web security.
By the end of this course, students will be able to understand:
1) the overview of web security
2) the primitives of web security
3) the tools used in web security.
security, information security, cybersecurity, cryptography, network, software, programming, web application
✔ Specialist skills | Intercultural skills | ✔ Communication skills | ✔ Critical thinking skills | ✔ Practical and/or problem-solving skills |
The class offers a standard type and a hands-on exercise style of lecture.
Course schedule | Required learning | |
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Class 1 | The overview of this course, the overview of web security, and the introduction to OWASP Top Ten Project. | Understand the notions on web security. |
Class 2 | Top 1 to 3 of OWASP TOP 10 2013 | Understand the schemes of attack on web applications. |
Class 3 | Top 4 to 6 of OWASP TOP 10 2013 | Understand the schemes of attack on web applications. |
Class 4 | Top 7 to 10 of OWASP TOP 10 2013 | Understand the schemes of attack on web applications. |
Class 5 | Introduction to OWASP Broken Web Applications Project. | Understand the schemes of attack and defense on web applications. |
Class 6 | Hands-on training for OWASP Broken Web Applications 1 | Understand the schemes of attack and defense on web applications. |
Class 7 | Hands-on training for OWASP Broken Web Applications 2 | Understand the schemes of attack and defense on web applications. |
Class 8 | Hands-on training for OWASP Broken Web Applications 3 | Understand the schemes of attack and defense on web applications. |
Class 9 | Hands-on training for local proxy | Understand the local proxy. |
Class 10 | Hands-on training for the HTTP protocol | Understand the HTTP protocol. |
Class 11 | Practical problems in cybersecurity | Understand the practical problems in cybersecurity. |
Class 12 | Hands-on hacking training 1 | Understand the schemes of attack and defense. |
Class 13 | Hands-on hacking training 2 | Understand the schemes of attack and defense. |
Class 14 | Hands-on hacking training 3 | Understand the schemes of attack and defense. |
Textbooks will be used in this course.
References will be announced in classes.
The evaluation consists of the exercises solved in the classes.
Students must have successfully completed Attack and Defense on Cybersecurity I (XCO.T475), or have equivalent knowledge.
keisuke[at]is.titech.ac.jp
Appointment by e-mail is required.