Level 2 · M.Sc

Computer Security

Syllabus · 42 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

Phase 0 Foundations & lab hygiene
Phase 1 The security mindset & threat modeling
Phase 2 The isolated lab range
Phase 3 CPU, memory & the process address space
Phase 4 Stack buffer overflows
Phase 5 Shellcode
Phase 6 Format-string bugs
Phase 7 Heap internals & heap exploitation
Phase 8 Exploit mitigations
Phase 9 Return-oriented programming & bypasses
Phase 10 Users, privileges, permissions & syscalls
Phase 11 Privilege escalation (Linux)
Phase 12 Sandboxing & isolation
Phase 13 OS hardening & secure configuration
Phase 14 Logging, auditing & host telemetry
Phase 15 Hashing & password storage
Phase 16 TLS, certificates & PKI in practice
Phase 17 Secrets management & key handling
Phase 18 HTTP, the browser model & same-origin
Phase 19 Injection & SQL injection
Phase 20 Cross-site scripting (XSS)
Phase 21 CSRF & SSRF
Phase 22 Authentication & session management
Phase 23 Access control & IDOR
Phase 24 Insecure deserialization & file upload
Phase 25 API & supply-chain security
Phase 26 Sniffing & traffic analysis
Phase 27 MITM & ARP/DNS spoofing
Phase 28 Scanning, enumeration & recon
Phase 29 Pivoting & lateral movement
Phase 30 Static & dynamic binary analysis
Phase 31 Anti-analysis & obfuscation
Phase 32 Incident response & digital forensics
Phase 33 Detection engineering & threat hunting
Phase 34 Vulnerability management & fuzzing
Phase 35 Secure SDLC & SAST/DAST in CI
Phase 36 Cryptographic & protocol misuse review
Phase 37 Blue-team operations & purple-team exercise
Phase 38 Red-team engagement (end to end)
Phase 39 Capstone
Phase 40 Hardening, postmortem & "What's Next"
Phase 41 Portal integration