Offensive Security: Applications and Systems - SPECTRO
The 'Offensive Security: Applications and Systems' course is taught by Florian Hahn (University of Twente). After this short course, you will have a fundamental understanding of different aspects of offensive security on system security and (web) application security. The course content is inspired by CTFs (capture the flag) – a type of cybersecurity competitions where participants compete to solve challenges and puzzles related to computer security.
Following the theme of CTFs, the areas covered in this course are:
- OSINT
- Web exploitation
- Reverse engineering
Course content
The course contains 8 quizzes and 13 lessons split into four sections:
- Welcome and content
- Open source intelligence
- Web Security
- Reverse engineering
For the best experience of the course, it is recommended to enroll at the CTF platform hosted by the University of Twente and solving the challenges there.
About SPECTRO
This course is delivered by SPECTRO. SPECTRO is a consortium consisting of 12 higher education institutions from 7 different countries, 2 innovative SMEs, 1 leading research centre in Information Systems and EIT Digital. SPECTRO is co-funded by the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme.
