Cyber Defense Monitoring Solutions

Basic Information

Course Code -- ITX8071
Credit Points -- 6.0 EAP
Course Language -- English
Course Schedule -- the course will be lectured from 17:45 to 21:00 on every Friday of fall semester 2014. All lectures and lab sessions will be held in room ICT-401 (Akadeemia tee 15A building).
In September 25 (Thursday), there will be an extra lecture from 17:45 to 21:00 in room ICT-315 (Akadeemia tee 15A building).
The lecture of October 10 (Friday) will be cancelled.

Evaluation

During the semester, two homework assignments are given to each student. Both assignments can yield up to 20 points, thus the maximum score from homework is 40 points. During the exam, three tasks are given to each student, with each task yielding up to 20 points and the whole exam up to 60 points. The final grade for a student is derived from his/her personal score:

score > 90 -- grade 5 (excellent)
80 < score ≤ 90 -- grade 4 (very good)
70 < score ≤ 80 -- grade 3 (good)
60 < score ≤ 70 -- grade 2 (satisfactory)
50 < score ≤ 60 -- grade 1 (pass)
score ≤ 50 -- a student has failed to pass

Virtual Machine Image

For course lab sessions, there is a virtual machine image which has been tested with VirtualBox. When importing the image into VirtualBox, don't forget to check the box "Reinitialize the MAC address of all network cards". Also, if you are using the image on a classroom computer, import your virtual machine into the C:\PublicVM directory. In order to run your virtual machine as a node of the classroom network, change the network adapter mode from NAT to Bridged Adapter. Further virtual machine tuning hints can be found here.

Lab Sessions

Solutions for past lab sessions are available here.

Homework assignments

Task1 -- a group work for max 3 students (to be announced).
Task2 -- a group work for max 3 students (to be announced).

Solutions to homework assignments should be sent to the e-mail address of the lecturer (given in the title page of each slide module). Together with the solution, full names and student codes of the authors must be listed. You should consider your solution submitted only after its reception has been confirmed by the lecturer.

All submitted solutions should be carefully tested final versions. Please submit the solution only once, and do not send in partial and/or untested work. It is not allowed to submit a partial solution, and use comments from the lecturer for later resubmission of improved version(s).

Please note that each student can be a (co)author of only one solution (i.e., participation in more than one student group is not allowed). Also note that the list of authors can not be changed after the deadline.

The correct solution with your score will be announced after the deadline.

Solutions submitted after the deadline will not be accepted. Also, it is not possible to redo the homework assignment after the deadline.

Information about the exam

During the exam, each student has to accomplish 3 tasks within 3 hours, using either a classroom computer or a personal laptop. All course slides and other electronic or printed materials (such as UNIX man pages or regular expression textbooks) can be freely used during the exam. However, any collaboration between students or receiving online assistance from other persons (for example, through public mailing lists or chatrooms) are NOT allowed.

The exam can be taken at the following times:

Timeslot1 -- to be announced
Timeslot2 -- to be announced

Re-examination information

Each student is granted one re-examination attempt which requires official application. The student can apply for re-examination after failing a regular exam, or for improving a low grade from a regular exam. Re-examination invalidates any previous grade or intermediate result which was obtained during the semester. During re-examination, 2 assignments have to be accomplished within 1 hour. The final grade is solely based on assignment solutions, and no work from previous exam or semester can be combined with the re-exam.

Re-examination time will be announced by mid December.