ISE

Introduction à la sécurité: first contact with system security, threat models, and practical defensive reasoning.

Instructor: Daniel De Almeida Braga

Term: L1 ISTN

Location: ISTIC, Universite de Rennes

Time: 1h30 lecture, 3h lab, 9h project

Course Description

This course is intended for L1 ISTN students. The unit gives a first experience of cybersecurity through a panorama of privacy, system security, reverse engineering, cryptography, and related topics.

This page covers the system-security part of the course. It focuses on the following questions:

  • What are we considering as a system?
  • How to identify threats?
  • What’s an attacker model, and how to define it?
  • How did cyber-threats evolve in the last decades?

Prerequisites

None.

Teaching Language

French.

Schedule

Topic Materials
Introduction to system security

Threat modeling, attacker models, defense in depth, and least privilege.
System security lab

First practical session on local systems, permissions, execution context, and basic security reflexes.
BadUSB project

Multi-part project around BadUSB-style attacks and defenses.