Course Schedule

Week	Readings	Lecture	Case Study	Assignment
Week 1 (Jan 20-22)	Cybersecurity Background	Intro to Class	What is Cybersecurity?
Week 2 (Jan 27-29)	The Cybersecurity Ecosystem	Ecosystem Thinking	Actors and Motivations	Security Incident Case
Week 3 (Feb 3-5)	Think Like a Hacker	Kobayashi Maru Exam	Mirai
Week 4 (Feb 10-12)	Heuristic and Biases	Individual Cybersecurity Decisions	Microsoft Email Breach
Week 5 (Feb 17-19)	Misaligned Incentives	Incentive Alignment	Solarwinds
Week 6 (Feb 24-26)	Information Asymmetry	Solving Information Asymmetry	Yondr Phone Pouches
Week 7 (Mar 3-5)	Externalities	Externalities	Blackcat and UnitedHealth
Week 8 (Mar 10-12)	System Reliability	Strategic Incentives	Not Petya
Week 9 (Mar 17-19)	Lying and Signaling	Signalling		Social Science Analysis
Week 10 (Mar 24-26)	At-Risk Populations	Cybersecurity Policy	Twitter Advertising Bitcoin
Week SB (Mar 28-Apr 5)	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break
Week 11 (Apr 7-9)	Vulnerabilities	Pricing Vulnerabilities	Uber Breach
Week 12 (Apr 14-16)	Security Products	Policy for Routers		Policy Analysis
Week 13 (Apr 21-23)	Phishing	Phishing and Fraud	MGM
Week 14 (Apr 28-30)	Is More Security Better?	Cybersecurity is Bullshit	Semester Review
Week Finals (May 5)				Final Paper: Recent Incident

Schedule is subject to change. Please check back here often for updates.