Cybersecurity

GENERAL OBJECTIVES The course aims to approach security and privacy in advanced information systems. The recent developments of future internet technologies (e.g. ICN) decentralised architectures (e.g. blockchain) and the Internet of Things raise new and challenging security and privacy issues. The course will introduce innovative solutions presented in the literature to address such issues in order to design and develop secure and privacy-aware components of a modern integrated ecosystem of services based on the aforementioned technologies. The course will discuss topics related to privacy and security in different domains, including: - Blockchain - Internet of Things - Future Internet Technologies - Machine Learning - Privacy-Preserving Systems SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES Knowledge and Understanding: The course stimulates the curiosity of the students toward new trending topics in cybersecurity. The student learns new concepts that allow them to acquire a basic knowledge of innovative information systems and their security. Apply Knowledge and Understanding: At the end of the course, the students should be able to analyze recent scientific papers related to security, understand the main information, discuss them with their colleagues, and reproduce their results. Critical and Judgment skills: The students acquire the ability to extract the main information from scientific papers and compare them with others in the literature. In this way, the student will be able to elaborate a critical judgment on the security of advanced information systems at the state of art and to assess what can be actually achieved and what is required to further progress in research. Communication skills: The discussion of a scientific paper with the class, as part of the exam program, requires the student to go in-depth with one of the topics seen during the lessons. This stimulates interaction during the class and the student's communication skills. Learning ability: In addition to the classic learning skills provided by the theoretical study of the teaching material, the course development methods, in particular related to the project activities, stimulate student self-learning.