How to study Cybersecurity — Electives, Pokhara University BECE
What it covers
Protecting systems and data: security principles, threats and vulnerabilities, cryptography, network and web security, and security management.
Topics worth extra time
- Threat landscape and common attack techniques
- Web application security (the OWASP Top 10)
- Cryptography in practice
- Network defence and incident response
- Security governance, policy and law
How to study it
Practise on legal training platforms and deliberately vulnerable lab apps to understand how attacks work and how to defend against them.
In the exam
Explain attacks with the steps involved and the countermeasures for each.