Academic Catalog

CSEC536 RESEARCH METHODS IN CYBER SECURITY

Course Code: 9100536
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Cyber Security
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Spring Semesters.

Course Content

The course will review research and applications on applied topics in cybersecurity, for the purpose of teaching methodologies for a systematic analysis of cyber security incidences in multiple domains, including methods for statistical analysis, the analysis of common cyber security attacks, malware analysis, and network packet analysis. The lectures in the course will introduce basic statistical methods, classical machine learning methods, deep learning methods, as well as the task analysis methods and Natural Language Processing (NLP) methods, together with their implementations.