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Level 3 · Ph.D

Advanced Computer Security

Ph.D syllabus · 56 phases · +1 year

Every unit this programme teaches, in the order it is taught. Headlines only — the material itself opens once you are enrolled.

Dates, price and prerequisites

1. Phase 0 Foundations & research-grade lab hygiene
2. Phase 1 From practitioner to researcher
3. Phase 2 The hardened research range
4. Phase 3 Security-research methodology & the literature
5. Phase 4 Adversary modeling & formal threat models
6. Phase 5 Measurement & evaluation in security
7. Phase 6 The modern allocator, deep
8. Phase 7 Advanced heap exploitation
9. Phase 8 Advanced information disclosure
10. Phase 9 Advanced control-flow hijacking
11. Phase 10 Code reuse at scale
12. Phase 11 Modern mitigations & their limits
13. Phase 12 Bypassing advanced mitigations
14. Phase 13 Linux kernel exploitation (intro)
15. Phase 14 Exploit reliability & weaponization engineering
16. Phase 15 Static program analysis foundations
17. Phase 16 Taint analysis & abstract interpretation
18. Phase 17 Symbolic & concolic execution
19. Phase 18 Coverage-guided fuzzing, deep
20. Phase 19 Structure-aware & grammar-based fuzzing
21. Phase 20 Automated triage & root-cause analysis
22. Phase 21 Hybrid fuzzing & directed analysis
23. Phase 22 The vulnerability-research pipeline
24. Phase 23 Advanced static reversing
25. Phase 24 Advanced dynamic analysis & emulation
26. Phase 25 Anti-analysis, deep
27. Phase 26 Malware techniques & capability analysis (lab-only)
28. Phase 27 C2 & adversary-emulation design (lab range)
29. Phase 28 Memory forensics, deep
30. Phase 29 Binary similarity, provenance & attribution reasoning
31. Phase 30 Practical cryptanalysis of the stack's crypto
32. Phase 31 Side-channel & timing attacks, applied
33. Phase 32 Protocol attacks
34. Phase 33 Randomness & key-management failures
35. Phase 34 Applied formal reasoning for protocols
36. Phase 35 Cryptographic misuse detection
37. Phase 36 Advanced web & HTTP attacks
38. Phase 37 Advanced lateral movement & pivoting
39. Phase 38 Identity & auth-infrastructure attacks
40. Phase 39 Container & isolation-escape reasoning
41. Phase 40 Supply-chain & build-pipeline attacks (lab)
42. Phase 41 Network detection engineering
43. Phase 42 Telemetry engineering with eBPF
44. Phase 43 Detection-as-code, in depth
45. Phase 44 Threat hunting & detection evaluation
46. Phase 45 Machine learning for security (honest treatment)
47. Phase 46 Secure-by-construction systems
48. Phase 47 Exploit-mitigation design & evaluation
49. Phase 48 Incident response & adversary emulation as research
50. Phase 49 Vulnerability-research methodology & responsible disclosure
51. Phase 50 Reading, reproducing & refuting security research
52. Phase 51 Writing security research
53. Phase 52 Proposing the capstone
54. Phase 53 Capstone I: execute the research
55. Phase 54 Capstone II: the verified publication
56. Phase 55 Frontier, ethics & close; portal integration