This course provides a practical introduction to the fundamentals of IT security. Participants gain insight into how real-world cyberattacks differ from Hollywood portrayals, explore attacker goals and common attack methods, and learn the typical stages of an attack along the kill chain. On the defense side, the course introduces the layered security concept of defense in depth and explains how prevention, detection, and response work together in effective cyber defense. A short hacking demo and our “PenQuest” game provide hands-on learning experiences from both attacker and defender perspectives.

Details

Course Content

Basics of IT security:

• Hacking: Hollywood vs. reality
• Attacker goals and motivations
• Means of attack
• Kill chain: Attack stages
• Exemplary threats
• Defense concept: Defense in depth
• Applied cyber defense: Prevention, detection, response
• Hacking demo
• Gamified IT security with PenQuest

Tutors

Robert Luh

Study Programme

Bachelor IT Security

ECTS

1 (check with institutional E³UDRES² coordinators to see whether ECTS can be recognized)

Contact hours

6

Full/partial course

Partial course

Prerequisites

None