Two Week ISTE Main Workshop on Cyber Security

Introduction

Over 5 years ago, we started conducting ISTE workshops for empowering teachers of engineering colleges. We first scaled up to engage 1,000 teachers at a time, in subject specific training workshops of two week duration. In 2013 we scaled this program further, to train up to 10,000 teachers at a time (T10KT), using 342 established remote centers across India. IIT Kharagpur is our partner Institution. Together, we have a mandate through a funded project from the National Mission on Education using ICT (NME-ICT) of MHRD, to train 1,50,000 teachers in 15 such workshops.

Since December 2009, we have conducted several two-week ISTE workshops on various engineering subjects. We have reached out to more than 65,000 teachers and helped them to enhance their teaching skills in these subjects.

In order to run these workshops at selected remote centers, we invite expert faculty from various remote centers to a One Week Coordinators training workshop which is held in IIT Bombay, typically two months before the main workshop. These faculty members then act as Workshop Coordinators during the main training workshop to be conducted later for 10,000 teachers, during which, the Coordinators supervise the conduct of tutorials and Labs at their Centers. They liaise between the participants at their Remote Centers and IIT Bombay, from where the interactive lectures are transmitted live. All the lectures and tutorial sessions are recorded. The final edited audio-visual content, along with other course material, are to be released in Open Source. The content can be freely used later by all teachers, students and other learners.

Given the success of such workshops, we now announce a two-week ISTE workshop on Cyber Security, to be held in July, 2014.

Course content

The workshop will provide training to participants on teaching pedagogy to make extensive use of Technology, and will cover teaching of the following topics:

• Secret Key Cryptography
• Public Key Cryptography
• Applications of the crypto hash
• Key Management and PKI
• Network Security
• DDoS Attacks
• Authentication Protocols
• Transport Layer Security (SSL/TLS)
• Access Control and Firewalls
• Software security
• Worms, viruses, bots, etc.
• Malware protection
• Web application security
• Browser security
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• Security Tools - Wireshark, Snort, Metasploit, etc.

Teaching Faculty

Prof. Bernard L. Menezes
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~bernard

Prof. G. Sivakumar
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Bombay
http://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~siva

Who Should Attend

Teachers, who wish to participate in this workshop, should specifically note that this is NOT a workshop to learn Cyber Security. Applicants should already have had some exposure to this subject. For example, teachers who have taught Network Security or System Security or Cryptography or a related course are eligible to enroll for this workshop.

This workshop is only for B.C.A, M.C.A, Engineering and Polytechnic Faculty. Students are not entitled to attend the course.

Duration and Venue

The duration of the workshop is 2 weeks (10 days). It commences on Thursday, 10th July, 2014 at 9:30 hrs and ends at 18:00 hrs on Sunday, 20th July with a days break on Sunday, 13th July, 2014. Additional contributions from the participants are required to be made within the following two weeks.

Criteria for Certification

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Course Fee

Since the workshop is partly funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Government of India), there is no course fee for participation.

How to Apply

Those wishing to attend this course should register online at http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict/home.do

The online form contains a list of remote centers. From this list, please select a center close to your institute, where you wish to attend the workshop. The last date for enrollment and for submission of permission letter is 04th July 2014. A list of selected participants will be put up on this website on 7th July 2014. The selected participants will also be informed by an automated email.

Enrollment will be strictly online, and no other mode of application will be entertained.

Mandatory requirement: It is mandatory that while registering for the workshop, the participants should submit a scanned copy of a letter from the principal/Head of the Institute mentioning in our pre-format letter. Registration without this letter will not be confirmed.

LAST DATE FOR ONLINE ENROLLMENT: 04th July, 2014

Accommodation

Remote centers are being partially funded to provide tea/lunch on each day of the workshop, and for accommodation, wherever available*, for a limited number of outstation participants. Travel reimbursement up to Rs. 1000/- will be paid only to the outstation participants, if the distance travelled from their Institute to the Remote Center is more than 100 kms. *Accommodation is not guaranteed.

Note

Please note that this workshop is conducted by the eOutreach project of IIT Bombay, under the National Mission on Education through ICT. Live recording of the course and other created contents will be released under Open Source through a portal. The recorded CD/DVD of the course lectures will be available for distribution at cost, to any individual/ institution. All participants are required to sign an authorization for such release of contents contributed by them during and after the workshop. Recognition and citation will naturally be made for all contributors.

Address For Communication

Dr. Mukta Atrey,
Sr. Project Manager,
Department of CSE,
Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076
Tel.: +91-22-2576 4989
Fax.: +91-22-2572 0022
Email: eoutreach@it.iitb.ac.in