| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Course Overview: Introduction to Public Interest Cybersecurity |
| Week 2 |
Ethics and the Code of Conduct; Usable security: friction in security and privacy behavior
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| Week 3 |
Basic Security Controls in Organizations |
| Week 4 |
Common Surveillance Threats in NGOs and SMEs; Problem Diagnosis and Re-framing; Information Gathering: Interview Skills |
| Week 5 |
Cybersecurity Clinic: Introduction and first meeting with clients.
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| Week 6 |
Threat Modeling & Bounding Risk Assessments |
| Week 7 |
Client’s Contextual & Capacity Research |
| Week 8 |
Client’s Contextual & Capacity Presentation |
| Week 9 |
Open Source Research Methods, Safety, and Tools |
| Week 10 |
Adversary Persona Development
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| Week 11 |
Threat Scenario Development |
| Week 12 |
Cybersecurity Clinic (I) |
| Week 13 |
Cybersecurity Clinic (II) |
| Week 14 |
Cybersecurity Clinic (III)
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| Week 15 |
Social Engineering and Phishing; Harmful Information (Misinformation and Harassment); Designing Security Training
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| Week 16 |
Final Presentation
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self-directed
learning |
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