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The book on “Cyber Security” aims to cover interesting topics that can serve as textbook for Undergraduate level courses in Technology/ Engineering and Post Graduate level courses in Management, Arts and Social Sciences and Sciences. Every chapter is supported with a glossary, acronyms, objective type of questions, activities along with short and long answer questions. Adequate number of tables and figures are added to understand the topics thoroughly. It is a self-guided material prepared for UGC-SWAYAM MOOC on “Cyber Security”, a non-technology PG Course suitable for core level course or elective level course.
The major objective here is to create awareness among the learners through an introductory level course on cybersecurity through discussions on the basics, different models, cyber-attacks, legal and ethical aspects for building cyber ecosystems. On completion of reading the entire book, the learners will be able to recognize the fundamental concepts in cybersecurity, distinguish among attacks, threats, and vulnerabilities, Intrusion detection and prevention systems.
Padmavathi Ganapathi, Ms. M. Kalaivani
Dr Padmavathi Ganapathi is the Dean-School of Physical Sciences and Computational Sciences and Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women (Deemed to be University),
Coimbatore. She has more than 33 years of teaching experience and 25 years of research experience. Her areas of interest include Cyber Security, Wireless Communication and Real-Time Systems. She has executed funded projects worth 267.368 lakhs Sponsored by AICTE, UGC, DRDO and DST. Supervised 22 scholars at the PhD level, she has more than 200 publications in Prestigious conferences and peer-reviewed journals. She is the life member of various professional bodies like CSI, ISTE, ISCA, WSEAS, AACE and AICW. Reviewer for many IEEE Conferences and Journals. She has visited many countries for technical deliberations. She is the Course Co-ordinator for SWAYAM-MOOC on Cyber Security. So far, more than 71, 000 learners have enrolled for various sessions and benefitted.
Co-author
Mrs. M. Kalaivani, Assistant Consultant working at Tata Consultancy Services, Kochi-682042.
