Backup of my notes and labs for Cybersecurity Engineering

This is most of the classes I have taken. Other ones are low level digital logic and embedded systems. I lost those classes when I was testing FreeBSD-current compiling most code and own kernel, which unsurprisingly crashed.

• CprE 308 - Operating Systems: Principles and Practice
  • Low level ideas on how the OS interacts with HW and users
  • Concepts of filesystems, processes, and system security + reliability
  • Labs were writing code
• CprE 310 - Theoretical Foundations of Computer Engineering
  • Discrete math course focusing on conceptual proofs and logic
• CprE 489 - Computer Networking and Data Communications
  • Low level networking course focusing on the physical, data link, and network layers
  • Data encodings, multilayered error detection/handling, flow control, OSPF/BGP, DHCP and NAT/subnetting
  • Labs were socket programming and configuring Cisco switches

• CS 228 - Introduction to Data Structures
  • Some really bad code from when I was a freshman
• CS 311 - Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • This extends CprE 310 and CS 228 applying proofs to algorithms
  • Graph theory and Java programs implementing shortest path algorithms
• CS 309 - Software Development Practices
  • This is the Chirrup project that can be found on my github profile
  • Intro to DevOps and Agile workflows with teams of 4 to build front and back ends

• CprE 230 - Cyber Security Fundamentals
  • Sysadm course that goes over the basics of Nix OSes, simple networking, VMs, and implementing services
  • Labs were about setting up services in Linux VMs in ESXi like LDAP, DNS, and OpenVPN
  • Final Project was a scenario where a disgruntled employee set up backdoors and vulnerabilities on a machine and you have to hunt them down
• CprE 231 - Cyber Security Concepts and Tools
  • Ethical hacking course where we learn of security attacks and incident response finding attacks in a SIEM set up for us
  • Labs were going through the MITRE ATT&CK framework starting with initial access techniques and moving to priviledge escalation and lateral movement techniques
  • Final was an attack competition where students defended their own VMs and tried to exploit vulnerabilities in other students VMs, all of which were filled with backdoors.
• CprE 234 - Legal, Professional, and Ethical Issues in Cyber Systems
  • Primary ethics course for cybersecurity that goes over many different concerns that people face in the numerous security positions
  • I have all of the papers I have written for the course stored here
• CprE 331 - Application of Cryptographic Concepts to Cyber Security
  • Simplified view of cryptographic algorithms, PKI, Kerberos, IAM, blockchain, SAML, and attacks to these
  • Labs working within VMs set up as environments with infrastructure of these concepts and view how they function
• CprE 430 - Network Protocols and Security
  • Abstract view point of mechanisms that operate on each layer of the OSI model
  • Looking at protocols and software vulnerabilities/weaknesses in the fundament design like ARP and SMTP
  • Defensive mechanisms put in place such as firewalls, WAF, and IPS
• CprE 437 - Intro to Wireless Security
  • Wireless networks such as Cellular, WLAN, and PAN
  • Looking at security challenges and attack points of these networks
• CprE 531 - Information System Security
  • Fundemental ideas of trusted/trustworthy, entropy, and cryptographic analysis
  • The CIA triad and extended ideas like authenticity and nonrepudiation
  • Hardware security mechanisms like cpu ring levels and virtual memory
  • Encryption and KX algorithms like AES, RSA, and DH as well as hashing algorithms like SHA
  • Look at certificates, verification of signatures, and functioning of TLS
  • Authenitcation models like RBAC, PBAC, MAC, and DAC as well as inner working of many MFA methods like biometrics and hardware tokens
• CprE 536 - Computer and Network Forensics
  • Goes over digital forensics ideas like watermarking and ip traceback
  • Analyzing hardware compenents like harddrives, ssd, and memory
  • Finding hidden information in file systems
  • Projects use FTK and Encase
• CprE 532 - Information Warfare
  • This is an offensive and defensive course looking at how attackers utilize the entirety of IT infrastructure
  • We go over attack methodologies and utilizing tools like Metasploit
  • We go over abilities to mitigate attacks and incident response techniques
  • With labs on virtual machines (this is similar to encompassing 230, 231, and 331 with more complexity)

• SE 422 - Cloud Computing Software Development
  • Team based project course going over cloud concepts like rapid elasticity and using AWS
  • This goes further into detail about containerization and distributed computing
  • Focuses on abstract view cloud systems for software engineer and light amounts of inner workings of cloud systems