MS in Cyber Security

• Get introduced to Kali Linux and explore commands such as Wget, curl, grep, awk, tail, head, watch, find, locate, and more.
• Master the concept of Piping and redirection, including the difference between them.
• Build a solid understanding of Python programming fundamentals while exploring the key concepts of Bash Scripting.
• Learn to use cyber tools like Netcat, Socat, Powercat, Powershell, Wireshark & tcpdump and perform hands-on to master them.

• Understand the principles of ethical hacking and explore its core techniques, including footprinting, reconnaissance, scanning, and enumeration. Additionally, learn to perform Networking Scanning using various scanning tools.
• Perform vulnerability analysis and system hacking to identify and effectively exploit security vulnerabilities. Furthermore, gain insights into malware threats, and sniffing methods while also understanding social engineering and exploring denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, including the fundamentals of SQL injection.
• Explore the session hijacking technique, along with the methods for evading intrusion detection systems (IDS), firewalls, and honeypots. Additionally, learn techniques to hack web servers, web applications, mobile devices, wireless networks, IoT, and operational technology (OT) devices. Furthermore, understand the relationship between ethical hacking and cloud computing, and discuss the associated challenges and strategies.
• Gain in-depth understanding of cryptography, its principles, techniques, and applications.

• Learn the concept of cyber security and its significance in protecting our information system. Also, understand its importance in today’s digital landscape.
• Explore the various verticals within cybersecurity and unique challenges & solutions.

Cybersecurity Governance – Data Protection Laws, Ethical Compliance, and Risk Management

• Explore the regulatory and legal issues, learn about confidentiality, availability, and integrity concepts, understand the principle of security governance, and explore various frameworks.
• Understand compliance requirements, professional ethics, and policies for safeguarding sensitive information and maintaining employee integrity.
• Learn to identify potential threats and assess risks while understanding security education, awareness, and training for effective responses.
• Familiarize yourself with security policies, standards, procedures, and guidelines to establish a robust security framework and ensure regulatory compliance.

• Discuss privacy protection assets and information classification also understand what ownership is.
• Discuss various data security controls and appropriate retention methods while also covering requirements handling.

• Overview of security evaluation models and fundamentals of security models, with a focus on understanding security designs, architectures, vulnerabilities, and information systems.
• Learn how to use secure design principles for engineering processes, and discuss the vulnerabilities of web-based applications and mobile systems. Additionally, explore cryptography, cyber-physical systems vulnerabilities, and secure principles of facility and site design.
• Understanding the techniques for safeguarding digital assets through Access Control, Surveillance, and Infrastructure Protection.

• Understand the architectural design of a secure network and also explore the channels for establishing secure communication.

• Understand logical and physical access management along with deeper insights of authentication and identification management.
• Explore the integration of identity as a third-party service and also discuss the mechanisms of authorization.
• Understand the provisioning lifecycle of identity and access.

• Understanding the fundamentals of test outputs of both manual and automated testing, while also discussing the security process including operational and management controls.
• Explore the vulnerabilities of a security architecture and gain an understanding of how to test security controls effectively, also discuss the test and assessment strategies.

• Explore the monitoring and logging activities, and also understand the investigation requirements and support. Additionally, discuss incident management, resource provision and cover the foundational security operations.
• Discuss the recovery strategies, also covering the techniques for resource protection, physical security, and prevention measures.
• Study the fundamentals of vulnerability and patch management, and discuss change management processes while understanding business continuity exercises and planning. Additionally, explore personnel safety concerns and explore disaster recovery planning.

• Understand the security controls for the development environment and software development life cycle
• Study the impact of acquired software security and evaluate the effectiveness of software security

This course focuses on fundamental concepts of digital forensics. Use various tools and techniques to combat any cyber-attack, investigation, and extraction of data from digital evidence collected from the crime scene. Techniques are used for securing and collecting evidence from the crime scene.

This course includes Security Administrators, Network Security, and Cyber Security Audits. Students can choose any two courses and will get training for both the courses:

• Security Administration: Students will be provided with knowledge about system security, how attackers harm the system, and practicals including Data and System Security, Disk encryption, Hardware Firmware Security, securing different operating systems from data destruction, and any cyber-attack. Students will be provided with expertise in firewall technologies, Intrusion Detection, and Intrusion Prevention Systems.
• Network Administration: Students are trained for identifying and solving any problem that arises in computer networks, and in their installing and configuring. Hands-on training is provided in Network Firewalls, and proxy servers using Virtual Private Networks (VPN), protecting servers from cyber-attacks, providing security of different layers, and application of Code Quality and Testing.
• Cyber Security Audits: In this course, students will be trained to perform audits that include Operation Security (review of policies, procedures, and security control), Data Security (use of encryption techniques, data security during transmission and storage), Physical Security (role-based access controls, disk encryption, and multi-factor authentication). The student will get complete practical knowledge to identify vulnerabilities in security, compliance, and testing controls.

Followed by the dual specialization comes the Capstone project, where students will be required to apply the knowledge gained with this curriculum and projects. Students are expected to engage in a real project for an organization to solve any one of the security and data issues. This includes the Capstone project where the student will be provided with internships, hands on practical knowledge will be developed such as forensics, NIDS, HIDS and honeypots. It also includes secure inventory management; application control and device control will be performed by the students to check for the ability of the student after the completion of the course.