IIT Guwahati Post Graduate Certificate Program in Cybersecurity

Programme Start Date: 28^th May, 2022 | Admission: Open

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DELIVERY TYPE

Live online instructor-led sessions (Direct-to-Device)

COURSE DURATION

9 Months

DEADLINE TO APPLY

22^nd May, 2022

COURSE FEE

₹2,00,000 + GST

CLASS TIMINGS

Saturday & Sunday – 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

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Course Highlights

Contextually designed 9 months programme for professionals from IT background

Designed for working executives with weekend lectures

Comprehensive curriculum covering fundamental to advanced topics

Live online classes via Direct-2-Device (D2D) mode

Demonstrative capstone project & real business use cases

5 days of campus immersion

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Eligibility

Any Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 50% aggregate marks
Working professional with a minimum of two years of experience in IT/Software Development

Programme Duration

Programme Delivery

Sessions will be conducted via a state-of-the-art Interactive Learning (IL) platform and delivered in Direct-to-Device (D2D) mode that can be accessed by learners on their desktop, laptop, tablet or smartphone.

Programme Roadmap

Topics

Introduction to Linux
Linux concepts
Linux system start up
Command Line Interface
Command line operations
File Operations
Network Operations
Shell Scripting"

Learning Outcome

Learning and understanding the Linux Operating system is the key essential factor.
You will learn the Linux File system, Linux Command Line operations, File operations, Linux Shell Script Programming, Linux Network Configurations, User and Group Creations.

Topics

What is information security?
Identification & Authentication
Access Control
Security Architecture and Engineering

Learning Outcome

Knowledge of Cyber Security for every individual and organization to keep the resources secured from attacks. In this module, you will get to know the best practices and standards of Information security like CIA, Access Control mechanism.

Topics

Foundations of encryption
Classical Cryptosystem
Data Encryption Standards (DES)
Stream Cipher
Public Key Cryptosystems
Knapsack Cryptosystem, RSA Cryptosystem
Hash functions
Universal hashing, cryptographic hash functions, SHA

Learning Outcome

Cryptography is one of the key integrating factor in contributing to information security. In this module you will learn various cryptographic primitives and standards that includes cryptographic algorithms, protocols, Hash functions and their applications.

Topics

Key distribution
Transport layer security
Internet protocol security
Wireless security
Email security
Network Monitoring / Intrusion detection system
Virtual private network and firewall (SP)

Learning Outcome

Network security is essential to reduce the risk of data loss, theft and preventing the cyber attacks on network resources. In this module you will learn factors which drives the network security. Identify and classify the examples of the attacks, various protocols and its importance.

Topics

Common web security vulenrabilitites
SQL injection
DDoS
Cross Site Scripting
Data breach
Web application firewall
DDoS mitigation
DNS security
Use of encryption

Learning Outcome

Securing any application from the attacker is most important as per as data is concerned. In this module you will learn various types of vulnerabilities, types of attack and its mitigation techniques.

Topics

Hacking and ethical hacking concepts
hands-on labs on information security testing, penetration testing
Information security Laws & Regulations

Learning Outcome

Information about the ethical hacking is important to explore its application in Cyber Security. In this module you will get to know basic concept of hacking, its lab demonstration also the information about Cyber Laws.

Topics

Cyberphysical system security
IoT security
Cyberforensics
Cloudsecurity

Learning Outcome

Its utmost important to know latest trends and tricks the attackers are using to breach the information or data security. In this module you will learn basic information of various emerging threats and its preventive measures.

Topics

Variables and Data types, Strings, Operators
Introduction to OOPs concepts: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Inheritance, Polymorphism
Classes and Objects, Methods, Inbuilt classes
Conditions & Loops: If-else, For, While, do while, Switch
Arrays
Interfaces
Error handling
Collection interface
Files :input output stream, reading and writing files

Case Study Project
1. Linux Bash shell Programming.
2. Linux Programming w.r.t. kernel modules and OS Services.
3. Hands on experience of Types of Attacks, Threats, and mitigation.
4. Identification of Security Risks and security policies.
5. Implementation of cryptographic algorithms and functions.
6. Cryptographic Hash Functions and applications.
7. Network Architecture, Cyber-attack patterns and their mitigation.
8. Penetration testing for DoS and DDoS attack.
9. Web Application and Web Server attack methods, Pen Testing and Security Tools.
10. Cyber Security Threat Hunting.
11. Understanding of Cyber Crimes and Cyber Laws.
12. IoT hacking methodology, hacking tools and Pen Testing.
13. Cyber Forensics Investigation of the Compromised computer System

Disclaimer: ‘*IIT Guwahati/Times TSW reserves the right to modify, amend or change the structure of module delivery & the curriculum/tools.

Months course

200+

Hours

Faculty Profiles

Dr. Parmeswar K. Iyer

Professor, Department of Chemistry & Center for Nanotechnology, IIT Guwahati

Dr. Iyer received his PhD in Chemistry from the CSIR-CSMCRI, Bhavnagar, India, in 1999. In 2004, he joined as a Faculty at IIT Guwahati. His research interests include the design and development of functional materials and their applications in photovoltaics, LED, transistors, etc. He has more than 200 International Journal Publications and received several National and Internationl Awards.

Dr. Sushanta Karmakar

Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Sushanta Karmakar received his PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, India, in 2009. He received his B.E. and M.E., both in Computer Science and Engineering from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, in 2001 and 2004, respectively. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Guwahati, India, since April 2016. His research interest lies in distributed graph algorithms and algorithms for various networks. He is a member of the ACM.

Dr. Manas Khatua

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Guwahati

Dr. Manas Khatua is working as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, India, since May 2018. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, from 2016 to 2018, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, from 2015 to 2016. He completed his PhD in Wireless Networks from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. He passed M.Tech. in Information Technology from Bengal Engineering and Science University, Shibpur, India, and B.Tech. in Computer Science & Engineering from the University of Kalyani, India. He was associated with Tata Consultancy Services (India) for two and half years and worked as a Lecturer at Bankura Unnayani Institute of Engineering, India, for more than two years. His research interests include Performance Evaluation of Communication Protocols, Internet of Things, Wireless Networks, Sensor Networks, Network Security, Cloud and Edge Computing, and Cyber Physical Systems. He is the author of many reputed international journals and conference publications. He is a member of IEEE and ACM.