Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Critical Infrastructure and Industrial System Security (19.IB27)

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Information Security (Year: 1, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Primenjeno softversko inženjerstvo
ECTS	6

The goal of this course is to master advanced threats and security controls used for protecting infrastructure and industrial systems. Analysis of real attacks against infrastructure systems. Familiarize with various industrial protocols and the techniques used for securing them. Learn about the relevant standards in infrastructure system protection. Develop advanced solutions for authentication and access control. Develop an information security architecture and a security plan.

Familiarity with the details of well-known attacks agains infrastructure systems. Capability to develop an information security architecture and implement adequate security controls. Familiarity with the relevant infrastructure protection and industrial system security standards. Capability to develop distributed information systems and apply advanced authentication and access control techniques. Capability to secure communication channels.

Detailed review and analysis of the Stuxnet attack on nuclear facilities. Detailed review and analysis of the cyber attacks against distribution systems in the Ukraine. Detailed review and analysis of other attack agains infrastructure systems. Discussion of relevant information security standards. Secure industrial communication protokol. Threat modeling in infrastructure systems. Information security architecture.

Lectures; Other types of teaching; Consultations.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
George Loukas	Cyber-Physical Attacks: A Growing Invisible Threat	2015	Butterworth-Heinemann	English
Clint Bodungen, Bryan Singer, Aaron Shbeeb, Kyle Wilhoit, Stephen Hilt	Hacking Exposed Industrial Control Systems: ICS and SCADA Security Secrets & Solutions	2016	McGraw-Hill Education	English
Robert S. Radvanovsky, Allan McDougall	Critical Infrastructure: Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness	2013	CRC Press	English
Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel, Chris K. Williams, Abdul Aslam	Enterprise Cybersecurity: How to Build a Successful Cyberdefense Program Against Advanced Threats	2015	Apress	English
Al-Sakib Khan Pathan	Securing Cyber-Physical Systems	2015	CRC Press	English

Course activity	Pre-examination	Obligations	Number of points
Oral part of the exam	No	Yes	20.00
Project	Yes	Yes	50.00
Written part of the exam - tasks and theory	No	Yes	20.00
Lecture attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00
Exercise attendance	Yes	Yes	5.00