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CS50's Introduction to Cybersecurity

David J. Malan · Harvard University

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About

An introduction to cybersecurity for technical and non-technical audiences alike. Learn how to secure your accounts, data, systems, and software against today’s threats and how to recognize and evaluate tomorrow’s as well, both at home and at work. Learn how to preserve your own privacy. Learn to view cybersecurity not in absolute terms but relative, a function of risks and rewards (for an adversary) and costs and benefits (for you). Learn to recognize cybersecurity as a trade-off with usability itself. Course presents both high-level and low-level examples of threats, providing students with all they need know technically to understand both. Assignments inspired by real-world events.

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How to Take this Course

Even if you are not a student at Harvard, you are welcome to “take” this course for free via this OpenCourseWare by working your way through the course’s five weeks of material. For each week, follow this workflow:

flowchart TD A[Watch Lecture] --> B[Submit Assignment]

And then submit the course’s final project.

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Lectures

  1. Securing Accounts Securing Accounts · Video
  2. Securing Data Securing Data · Video
  3. Securing Systems Securing Systems · Video
  4. Securing Software Securing Software · Video
  5. Preserving Privacy Preserving Privacy · Video

Syllabus and materials

At CS50 at Harvard, as the course publishes them.

Credits and licence

Institution
Harvard University
Department
CS50
Teacher
David J. Malan
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science
Source
CS50 at Harvard
Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, as CS50 at Harvard states it. Non-commercial use only. CS50 at Harvard's terms
Attribution
CS50, Harvard University. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.
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