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Managing Enterprise Cybersecurity

Department of Management Information Systems, Temple University

Managing Enterprise Cybersecurity

MIS 4596.001 ■ Spring 2021 ■ David Lanter
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Schedule

 

Dates Topic & Assignments Due Readings
Tuesday, 8/24/2021

Introduction to the Course

Anderson, Ch. 1

 

Thursday, 8/26/2021

Threat modeling

Read the beginning of each chapter, skim the rest of the chapter: “Threat Modeling,” by Adam Shostack, Introduction, Chapter 1, Chapter 4

Optional: Schneier, Chapter 21

Tuesday, 8/31/2021

Risk Assessment

 

Thursday, 9/2/2021

Threat Modeling Lab due

Start Milestone 1: Risk Assessment Report Draft

Information Privacy

Tim Cook, “‘Technology can harm, can help”

Tuesday,9/7/2021 Introduction to Linux | Google Cloud Platform (GCP)  
Thursday, 9/9/2021 

Web Privacy and Anonymity Lab due

Introduction to Cryptography

Anderson, Ch. 5, pp. 129 –134. Sections 5.1 through 5.2.2
Saturday, 9/11/2021

Milestone 1: Risk Assessment Report Draft due

 
Tuesday, 9/14/2021

Introduction to Google Cloud Platform and Linux Tutorial Lab due

Symmetric Cryptography

 

Anderson, Ch. 5 pp. 134 -136,  Section 5.2.3
Thursday, 9/16/2021

No Class Meeting

 

Saturday, 9/18/2021

Milestone 2: Risk Assessment Final Report due

 

Tuesday, 9/21/2021

Asymmetric Cryptography

Anderson, Ch. 5, pp. 140–148, 153–155.

Thursday, 9/23/2021

Digital Certificates and Public Key Infrastructure

Anderson Ch. 5, pp. 157-184, Sections 5.4.3.2 through 5.8

Tuesday, 9/28/2021

Authentication and Passwords

 
Thursday, 9/30/2021

Symmetric Encryption & Hashing Lab due

Password Cracking

 
Monday, 10/4/2021

Mid-term Exam opens

 

Tuesday, 10/5/2021

 No Class Meeting – Group Work

 

Thursday, 10/7/2021

Asymmetric Cryptography Lab due

Introduction to Networking

 
Saturday, 10/9/2021

Deadline for Mid-term Exam 

 

Tuesday, 10/12/2021

Vulnerability Scanning

Gosney, “How LinkedIn’s password sloppiness hurts us all“

Goodin, “Why passwords have never been weaker“

Thursday, 10/14/2021

Digital Certificates and Trust Lab due

Vulnerability Scanning continued

 

Tuesday, 10/19/2021

Start Milestone 3: Penetration Test

Vulnerability Exploitation

 

Thursday, 10/21/2021

Vulnerability Exploitation continued

 

Tuesday, 10/26/2021

Password Cracking Lab due

Human Element – Information Security in Organizations

 

Thursday, 10/28/2021

Midterm Exam due

Physical Security

 

Tuesday, 11/2/2021

Vulnerability Discovery Lab due

Network Security Monitoring

 

Thursday, 11/4/2021

Incident Response – Equifax Case Study

 

Saturday, 11/6/2021

Milestone 3: Penetration Test Report due

 

Tuesday 11/9/2021

Vulnerability Exploitation lab due

Incident Recovery – Maersk Case Study

Online video: Bruce Schneier, The Security Mirage

“Cosmo, the Hacker ‘God’ Who Fell to Earth,” by Mat Honan.

Anderson, Chapter 2, pp. 17–43

Thursday, 11/11/2021

Incident Recovery continued

“Network Security Monitoring,” by Richard Bejtlich, Chapter 1

Tuesday, 11/16/2021

Start Milestone 4: Penetration Test Report with Mitigations

Social Engineering Lab due

Malware Analysis

Introduction and Chapter 0 of Practical Malware Analysis by Sikorski and Honig.

Thursday, 11/18/2021
Malware Analysis continued…

HBR Case Study: “CYBERATTACK:”The Maersk Global Supply-Chain Meltdown,” Wesley et al.

“The Untold Story of NotPetya,” by Andy Greenberg

Tuesday, 11/23/2021

Network Security Monitoring Lab due

Fall Break – No Class Meeting

HBP Case Study: “Data Breach at Equifax,” Srinivasan et al.

Thursday, 11/25/2021

Thanksgiving – No Class Meeting

 

Tuesday, 11/30/2021

Milestone 4: Final Penetration Test Report with Mitigations due

Malware Analysis Lab due

Course Wrap-up

 

Thursday, 12/2/2021 Course Wrap-up continued

 

Thursday, 12/9/2021

Final Exam opens

 
Wednesday, 12/15/2021

Final Exam closes

 

 

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