Degree Level Course

Introduction to Cryptography and Cyber Security

This course introduces the principles and practice of cryptography and network security. It aims to teach the foundational principles of cryptographic algorithms and how to think like a security practitioner, the need for cryptography, the evolution of cryptography, and modern encryption-decryption algorithms. It also introduces an overview of network security -- the threat models, security in internet scale systems, protocol based attacks, DDos attacks and defenses etc.