Principles X - (Cybersecurity - Forensics)

Cybersecurity concepts are used to solve challenges and succeed in Capture-the-Flag (CTF) competitions, which serve as a safe and educational platform where students can learn and practice these skills. Forensics tasks are a common component in many of these competitions, where competitors are tasked to analyse digital forensic evidence or perform other "Blue Team" functions.The ability to extract and analyse digital forensic evidence is crucial in an age where cybercrime becomes increasingly prevalent. Combining all skills previously learnt at SG Code Campus with this course will allow students to hide, identify, and extract data across a wide range of applications!In this course we will learn how to:

- use Open Source Intelligence tools to fingerprint a target
- hide and extract hidden information in audio and image files with classical and modern steganographic techniques
- understand file signatures, perform file carving, and repair corrupted files of popular filetypes
- perform filesystem and memory dump analysis and exfiltration
- understand common networking protocols and attacks
- analyse and exfiltrate data in network packet captures

NOTE FOR NEW JOINERS: There will be a additional catch up session to introduce the following topics:
- navigate the world of cybersecurity capture-the-flag (CTF) competitions
- think of CTF problems in a wider, macro, real-world lens
- use the Linux command line effectively

Course Schedule

This is an 8 lesson course. Lessons will be conducted through online sessions from 11:30am-1:30pm, 26 April 2020 to 14 June 2020.

**NO MINIMUM CLASS SIZE
We appreciate that parents need certainty when signing up for classes. Hence, we do not have a minimum class size. In the event that a course has only one sign-up, lessons may end earlier as they are conducted on a 1-on-1 basis. Parents will be informed of any adjustments to the class duration at least 2 days in advance.