Phishing: Recognizing Email Scams

Authentication Means and Best Practices

Explores authentication means, secure password practices, biometric verification, and bi-directional authentication to enhance cybersecurity.

Access Control: Password-based Cryptography

Explores access control and password-based cryptography, including challenges, biometrics, and the biometric passport case study.

Authentication: Passwords

Covers the importance of passwords in authentication, including secure transfer, storage, and checking techniques.

Data Security: Hashing, Salting, and Password Storage

Emphasizes the significance of hashing, salting, and secure password storage in data security, highlighting the use of salt to prevent dictionary attacks and memory hard functions to slow down password cracking.

Authentication - Biometrics

Covers the concept of biometrics, the process of enrolling and verifying biometrics, and the importance of balancing false positives and false negatives.