- DDoS attacks and defenses
- Cloud Computing Security
- Security and Privacy in Tor network
- geolocation-based access control
- Attribute-Based Access Control
Advanced System Security Design Specialization
Advanced Secure System Design and Analysis Skills. Apply state of art techniques and tools to design, analyze, and implement critical cyber systems
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What you will learn
Understand basic cloud services and its application and how to work with AWS cloud computing resources.
Understand, analyze and evaluate DDoS attacks, detection and prevention techniques.
Understand and apply basic security and privacy in TOR network and blockchain systems.
Understand geo-location/attribute based access security and learn how to apply XACML in ABAC systems.
Skills you will gain
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Applied Learning Project
With high available AWS load balancing cluster project, the learners apply the knowledge and skills of cloud computing security to demonstrate the abilities to create high available secure systems; with anonymous TOR browser and hidden server project, the learners apply the knowledge and skills of security and privacy in censorship resistance systems to protect the anonymity of the users or servers; with secure geo-coding project, the learners apply apply the knowledge and skills of RBAC/ABAC and context-aware access controls to implement secure data delivery service using web crypto and geolocaiton API.
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