Public Interest Cybersecurity Practices and Society

Course #: CSIC30171

• Time: Friday 18:30--21:20
• Classroom: EC114
• Prerequisite: (either one would be fine) cybersecurity courses, information science background, social science research methods
• Textbook: No - Lecture slides only: The course will highly apply the lesson modules and materials from UC Berkeley's Citizen Clinic Cybersecurity Education Center: https://www.citizenclinic.io/

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Course Details

• TAs

  • TA group: Tse-Wei Huang, Hsuan-Yu Peng, Yen-Chia Peng, and Hong-Yi Lin
  • Email: echo 'dGFAem9vbGFiLm9yZwo=' | base64 -d (you know how to decode it if you have participated the class on the 1st day)
• TAs' Office Hour: by appointment @ EC223A
• Course Topics

  • Overview: { overview, ethics, code of conducts }
  • Security basics: { usable security, basic security controls, common surveillance threats }
  • Security threats: { threat modeling & risk assessment, Client's contextual & capacity research, open source research, adversary persona, threat scenario, social engineering }
  • Cybersecurity Clinic: { introduction, clinic, final presentation }
• Tentative Schedule & Arrangement

  Week	Date	Arrangement	Topic
  1	09/06	Lecture	Course introduction
  2	09/13	(no-class)
  3	09/21 [Sat]	Fullday lecture: 9am to 6pm	Information security basics
  4	09/28 [Sat]	Fullday lecture: 9am to 6pm	Problem diagnosis and reframing
  5	10/05 [Sat]	Fullday lecture: 9am to 6pm	The OSINT framework
  6	10/11	Presentation	First clinic with your clients
  7	10/18	(no-class)
  8	10/25	(no-class)	<midterm week>
  9	11/01	(no-class)
  10	11/08	Presentation	Second clinic with your clients
  11	11/15	(no-class)
  12	11/22	Presentation	Final clinic with your clients
  13	11/29	(no-class)	Final clinic with your clients
  14	12/06	Presentation	Final presentation
  15	12/13	(no-class)	Final report (submission)
  16	12/20	(no-class)	<final term week>

• Grading Policy

  • [15%] First clinic - client's context & presentation.
  • [15%] Second clinic - solutions
  • [20%] Final clinic - deployment, feedback, and refinement
  • [30%] Final presentation
  • [15%] Course labs
  • [05%] Participation

Lab & Homework Submission

1. Pack all your files into a single tar.gz archive file.
2. Upload your homework via the campus E3 system.

Downloads

• Slides:

  • Course introduction (NYCU)
  • Course introduction (NICS)
  • NPO sharing (TWNPOS)
  • Threat Model (NTU)
  • Security Threats & Trends (NYCU)
  • Interview Skills (NICS)
  • 如何改變⼈的資安⾏為 (NICS)
  • 錯假訊息對組織的影響 (NICS)
  • Networking & Networking Labs (NYCU)
  • Digital Safety (NTU)
• Documents:

  • 資安健檢團諮詢會議討論題項 (v1.0)

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