ESEC
Enjeux de cybersécurité: security foundations, privacy, cryptography, OSINT, and digital security practice.
Instructor: Daniel De Almeida Braga
Term: L3 Informatique
Location: ISTIC, Universite de Rennes
Time: Lectures, TD, and practical sessions
Course Description
This course introduces L3 computer-science students to the technical, social, and political stakes of cybersecurity. It gives enough technical background to reason about common threats while keeping the discussion connected to real systems, privacy issues, and everyday security decisions.
The practical sessions cover security monitoring, OSINT, passwords, password managers, and metadata leakage.
Prerequisites
Basic computer-science knowledge.
Teaching Language
French.
Schedule
| Topic | Materials |
|---|---|
| Cybersecurity stakes and foundations Introduction to cybersecurity stakes, attacker goals, risk reasoning, and basic defensive vocabulary. | |
| Privacy and public-policy debates Privacy threats, surveillance tradeoffs, and structured discussion around encrypted communication. | |
| Cryptography basics Core cryptographic concepts used to understand confidentiality, integrity, authentication, and secure communication. | |
| Security monitoring and OSINT Practical work on technology watch, public information collection, and the limits of open-source intelligence. | |
| Passwords and password managers Password attack models, defensive choices, and practical evaluation of password-manager workflows. | |
| Mobile application metadata Practical analysis of information exposed by mobile applications and their distribution metadata. |