• Define cloud services, including types and service models • How to define cloud service requirements and identify appropriate services • Survey cloud-based security capabilities and offerings • Discuss cloud storage encryption considerations • Protection of cloud-based applications and infrastructures • Explain the major federated identity management standards and how they differ

• Define the Internet of Things and discuss associated emerging security issues • Discuss nascent efforts to financially measure cybersecurity to make sound investment decisions • Explore the evolving field of electronic voting, which has been an important and open security research problem for over a decade • Study potential examples of cyber warfare and their policy implications

• Attacks against browsers • Fake and malicious websites • Attacks targeting sensitive data • Injection attacks • Spam • Phishing attacks

• Define privacy and fundamental computer-related privacy challenges • Privacy principles and laws • Privacy precautions for web surfing • Spyware • Email privacy • Privacy concerns in emerging technologies

• Learn basic terms and primitives of cryptography • Deep dive into how symmetric encryption algorithms work • Study the RSA asymmetric encryption algorithm • Compare message digest algorithms • Explain the math behind digital signatures • Learn the concepts behind quantum cryptography

• Study the contents of a good security plan • Learn to plan for business continuity and responding to incidents • Outline the steps and best practices of risk analysis • Learn to prepare for natural and human-caused disasters

• Networking basics • Network threats and vulnerabilities • WiFi security • Denial-of-service attacks • Network encryption concepts and tools • Types of firewalls and what they do • Intrusion detection and prevention systems • Security information and event management tools

• Learn about memory organization, buffer overflows, and relevant countermeasures • Common programming bugs, such as off-by-one errors, race conditions, and incomplete mediation • Survey of past malware and malware capabilities • Virus detection • Tips for programmers on writing code for security

• Basic database terminology and concepts • Security requirements for databases • Implementing access controls in databases • Protecting sensitive data • Data mining and big data

• Basic security functions provided by operating systems • System resources that require operating system protection • Operating system design principles • How operating systems control access to resources • The history of trusted computing • Characteristics of operating system rootkits