Course1: CyMOT Cybersecurity Fundamentals.

Course Schedule

Module 1 – Networking Fundamentals

Module 2 – Topologies and Models

Module 3 – Network Addressing

Module 4 – Major Protocols

Module 5 – Cryptography

Module 6 – Scanning and Protocol Analysis

Module 7 – Information Assurance Principles

Module 8 – Attack Vectors

Module 9 – System Hardening

Module 10 – Incident Respons

Course Objective

The Cybersecurity Fundamentals course will explore student how information systems communicate and exchange data and approach how to secure those systems. This course complements any networking and operating system foundations and paves the way for more advanced topics in manufacturing cybersecurity systems operation. It will prepare students for follow-on roles that contribute to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of production/processing controls and communications that protect assets.

The course modules align with many of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework key role responsibilities for those charged with the identification of information system assets, their configurations, and proper cybersecurity architectures.

Following the same framework, students will learn to protect those information systems. Students will examine vulnerabilities and threats, monitoring preventative and detective controls, and recognizing supply chain risks. In the event of an incident, students will learn to provide initial analysis, respond, and assist in the containment, eradication, and recovery of information technology/operational technology data and environment.

Course Description

The course is separated into ten modules. Earlier modules cover basic networking concepts, topologies, and standardized internetworking models. We focus attention on network infrastructure components and their functional. The course presents key standards organizations and governing bodies that influence today’s networks and their security. Later modules discuss the physical and logical methods for interconnecting systems and focus on the two foremost networking models: TCP/IP and DoD. Students examine actions and common protocols in use at each layer of the TCP/IP model. Further modules make distinctions between physical addressing and connection types and detail logical addressing with the dissection of IPv4 and IPv6 headers.

The course examines normal networking behaviors and discusses how attackers can manipulate common protocols to achieve malicious goals. We present wireless technologies beyond traditional Wi-Fi networks along with their Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technologies (OT) implications and influences. Students receive a brief overview of cryptographic methods to address securing data in transmission and at rest.