Title: 1.4 Cyber Threats
Course: Center of Academic Excellence (2 Year)

The intent of this Knowledge Unit is to provide students with basic information about the threats that may be present in the cyber realm.

1.4.1 Topic(s):

Adversaries and targets

Motivations and Techniques

The Adversary Model (resources, capabilities, intent, motivation, risk aversion, access)

Types of Attacks

Password guessing / cracking

Backdoors / trojans / viruses / wireless attacks

Sniffing / spoofing / session hijacking

Denial of service / distributed DOS / BOTs

MAC spoofing / web app attacks / 0-day exploits

Vulnerabilities that enable attacks

Attack Timing (within x minutes of being attached to the net)

Social Engineering

Events that indicate an attack is/has happened

Legal Issues

Attack surfaces / vectors

Attack trees

Insider problem

Covert Channels

Threat Information Sources (e.g., CERT)

1.4.2 Outcome(s): Students will be able to:
____ Identify the bad actors in cyberspace and compare and contrast their resources, capabilities/techniques, motivations, aversion to risk
____ Describe different types of attacks and their characteristics