Digital Security - JKB160

• Title: Digital Security
• Czech title: Digitální bezpečnost
• Guaranteed by: Department of Media Studies (23-KMS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2023
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:2/0, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (20)
• Min. number of students: 10
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course for students of another faculty; course taught by another faculty; course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: Mgr. Jan Miessler
• Class: Courses for incoming students

Annotation

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (21.01.2022)

Living and working online means leaving a digital footprint. In this course, students will learn how to secure their work, data and privacy in the digital world. The course will introduce knowledge that governments, hackers, IT-professionals and corporations may use against media professionals. The course will also discuss ways how to mitigate the most common digital threats, such as KRACK, Heartbleed, SCAM and Social Engineering attacks.

Aim of the course

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (04.02.2022)

Course instructor: Alexander Weber

The course is aimed at professional communicators: reporters, public relations strategists, political communicators, communications managers and directors, brand influencers, press spokespeople – anyone whose job requires them to protect intellectual property, ideas, designs, and concepts, or the integrity of communications between them and their partners, clients or sources. It is a practical course focusing on defending privacy and protecting clients, sources, publications and investigations without prior advanced IT knowledge.

Overall Learning Objectives and Assessment

·         Identify threats and risks in a fast-changing digital environment

·         Assess, and reduce their social, digital and personal footprints

·         Describe the basic structure of the connected networks (Internet, WWAN, LAN, 2G/3G/4G/5G) and understand its inherent design flaws, including the vulnerability of the cloud, the layers of the Internet, ISP data collection, service providers, devices, credential verification, digital certificates.

·         Challenges of travelling abroad with sensitive information or with aim to collect sensitive information

·         Describe the laws governing search, seizure, access, and communications interception and apply that knowledge to protect their own and others’ information in different legislations in Europe, Asia and the Americas

·         Use encrypted communication, TOR, VPNs, secure document systems, 1.1.1.1. to protect their own and others’ information.

·         Analyze information risks in communication scenarios and create strategies to minimize, mitigate or eliminate those risks

The course content may be adjusted to address current events and developments in the field.

Literature

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (21.01.2022)

Full Disclosure (continuous mailing list) https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/

GILES, Matt & SNOWDEN, Edward (2016) The Internet is broken. Popular Science

HADNAGY, Christopher (2018), Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking, 2nd Edition. Wiley

MIESSLER, Daniel (continuous blog) https://danielmiessler.com/

MITNICK, Kevin (2018), The Art of Invisibility. Back Bay Books

SCHNEIER, Bruce (2018) Klick here to kill everybody. W. W. Norton & Company

SCHNEIER, Bruce (2019) We have root. Wiley

SCHNEIER, Bruce (continuous blog) https://www.schneier.com/

Teaching methods

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (21.01.2022)

The course will be taught as a seminar.

Requirements to the exam

Last update: Mgr. Jan Miessler (21.01.2022)

Breakdown of Grades

Assignment	Points	% of Grade
Participation	15	15%
Assignments (6, 10 points each)	60	60%
Quizzes	10	10%
Final Exam	25	25%
TOTAL	100	100%

Grading Scale

A: 91-100, B: 81-90, C: 71-80, D: 61-70, E: 51-60, Fail: <51

Active participation, submitting at least 4 of the 6 assignments, at least 6 of the 10 quizzes, and the final exam is required to pass the course.