General Information

Course description

This course covers advanced techniques for attacks and defense in Cybersecurity. In particular, the course will teach binary reverse engineering, vulnerability analysis, exploit development, patching vulnerabilities, bug hunting, etc. through ten-weeks of hands-on labs with examples.

This course borrows the format of Capture-The-Flag (CTF) challenges for not only learning techniques required to solve the challenge but also enjoying the fun of taking over the systems and blocking attacks.

Prerequisite (Recommended)

• Programming in C and Python

• UNIX/Linux command line tools (tmux, gdb, gcc, make, vim or emacs, sh)

• Operating systems basics (process, file, memory layout, etc.)

Who should take CAND?

CAND is primarily intended for both undergraduate and graduate students who are interested in obtaining skill sets required to thwart cyber attacks in the wild.

Over the course of lab exercises, students will become confident in competing in Capture-the-Flag (CTF) contests, conducting real-world bug hunting and getting bug bounty awards, and contributing to open-source projects by sending their patches via pull-requests.