Cyber Security detailed syllabus for Information Technology (IT) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the IT students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Information Technology 6th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit IT 6th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-VI scheme and its subjects refer to IT Professional Elective-VI syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of cyber security is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION 6 Cyber Security – History of Internet – Impact of Internet – CIA Triad; Reason for Cyber Crime -Need for Cyber Security – History of Cyber Crime; Cybercriminals – Classification of Cybercrimes -A Global Perspective on Cyber Crimes; Cyber Laws – The Indian IT Act – Cybercrime and Punishment.
Unit II
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Unit III
RECONNAISSANCE 5 Harvester – Whois – Netcraft – Host – Extracting Information from DNS – Extracting Information from E-mail Servers – Social Engineering Reconnaissance; Scanning – Port Scanning – Network Scanning and Vulnerability Scanning – Scanning Methodology – Ping Sweer Techniques – Nmap Command Switches – SYN – Stealth – XMAS – NULL – IDLE – FIN Scans – Banner Grabbing and OS Finger printing Techniques.
Unit IV
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Unit V
INTRUSION PREVENTION 5 Firewalls and Intrusion Prevention Systems: Need for Firewalls – Firewall Characteristics and Access Policy – Types of Firewalls – Firewall Basing – Firewall Location and Configurations -Intrusion Prevention Systems – Example Unified Threat Management Products.
Practical Exercises:
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Course Outcomes:
On successful completion of this course, the student will be able to
- Explain the basics of cyber security, cyber crime and cyber law (K2)
- Classify various types of attacks and learn the tools to launch the attacks (K2)
- Apply various tools to perform information gathering (K3)
- Apply intrusion techniques to detect intrusion (K3)
- Apply intrusion prevention techniques to prevent intrusion (K3)
Text Books:
- Anand Shinde, Introduction to Cyber Security Guide to the World of Cyber Security, Notion Press, 2021 (Unit 1)
- Nina Godbole, Sunit Belapure, Cyber Security: Understanding Cyber Crimes, Computer Forensics and Legal Perspectives, Wiley Publishers, 2011 (Unit 1)
- https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten/
Reference Books:
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For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Information Technology 6th Sem, visit IT 6th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Information Technology results, visit Anna University IT all semester results direct link.