ICT infrastructure is at the heart of both critical and non-critical functionality which as a society we have come to rely upon. With the ongoing digitization (e.g. smart appliances, smart phones, smart homes, smart cities, smart energy grids, cloudsystems) it is essential that the security of this infrastructure is given proper attention.
The goal of this course is to get to know by which methods cyber-attackers will typically attempt to infiltrate or disturb proper functionality of these systems, and – if they gain entry – how they will attempt to gain control over lateral systems and potentially conceal their steps. Armed with this knowledge, setting up proper multilayered network defences against such attacks will be explained.
This is complementary to courses such as Information Security, which focuses specifically on cryptography and implementations of it at a high level of abstraction; and Software Hacking and Protection, where the behaviour of the system is (either partially or fully) unknown by an attacker, the goal of an attacker is to understand or manipulate the behaviour of this system.
More info -> www.ugain.ugent.be/NHP2026
