<Cyber Security Base>

Cyber Security Base with F-Secure is a free course series by University of Helsinki in collaboration with F-Secure Cyber Security Academy that focuses on building core knowledge and abilities related to the work of a cyber security professional.

About the Course Series

The course series consists of multiple smaller courses, each centered around a specific theme. These themes include a brief introduction to cyber security and operational security, web software development, types of vulnerabilities that are typical to web software, how such vulnerabilities are discovered and then mitigated, and advanced topics such as secure software architectures and cryptography. There will be a few case studies as well as projects that participants can work on. At the end of the course series, we'll also organize a friendly competition where participants get to find and fix vulnerabilities within a limited time-frame.


New material and content will be released as the courses progress. Next week, we'll release the first parts of the Securing Software -course.


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Open courses

Introduction to Cyber Security 1 Cr. (ECTS)

date_range 25.10.2016 - 13.11.2016


This part of the course series will introduce the participant to the relevant issues in cyber security. These issues include the stakeholders' and users' ability to disrupt the functionality of a system; corporate responsibilities and liabilities; and the neverending software crisis that is related to the increasing amount of software and maintenance.

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Securing Software 3 Cr. (ECTS)

date_range 31.10.2016 - 18.12.2016


This part focuses on security issues related to interconnected software. The participant will learn the principles of developing web applications, typical security issues that are related to such applications, and how such issues are discovered and mitigated.

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Course Project I 1 Cr. (ECTS)

date_range 12.12.2016 - 29.1.2017


In the first project, the participants will identify and fix flaws in an existing software project.

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Advanced Topics 3 Cr. (ECTS)

date_range 16.1.2016 - 6.3.2017


To be announced.

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Course Project II 1 Cr. (ECTS)

date_range 20.2.2017 - 3.4.2017


To be announced.

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Capture The Flag 1 Cr. (ECTS)

date_range 3.4.2017 - 10.4.2017


A Capture the Flag (CTF) competition will be organized at the end of the course series. In the competition, participants are given a variety of tasks that are related to the topics of the course series. Participants gain points for every solved task, where the amount of points depends on the complexity of the task as well as the amount of time that the participant spends on the task.

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