Course Schedule

Week	Readings	Lecture	Case Study	Assignment
Week 1 (Jan 23-25)	Cybersecurity Background	Intro to Class	What is Cybersecurity?
Week 2 (Jan 30-Feb 1)	The Cybersecurity Ecosystem	Ecosystem Thinking	Actors and Motivations	Security Incident Case
Week 3 (Feb 6-8)	Think Like a Hacker	Kobayashi Maru Exam	Microsoft Email Breach
Week 4 (Feb 13-15)	Heuristic and Biases	Individual Cybersecurity Decisions	Oktapus
Week 5 (Feb 20-22)	At-Risk Populations	Security for Everyone	Twitter Advertising Bitcoin
Week 6 (Feb 27-29)	Misaligned Incentives and Cyber-Insurance	Strategic Incentives	Mirai
Week 7 (Mar 5-7)	Externalities, lock-in, and public goods	Externalities	Solarwinds
Week 8 (Mar 12-14)	Information Asymmetry	Solving Information Asymmetry	Not Petya
Week 9 (Mar 19-21)	Policy	Cybersecurity Policy	No Class; instructor away	Policy Analysis
Week SB (Mar 26-28)	Spring Break	Spring Break	Spring Break
Week 10 (Apr 2-4)	Vulnerability Pricing	Pricing Vulnerabilities	Uber Breach
Week 11 (Apr 9-11)	AI	No Class; instructor away	Generative AI	Generative AI and Cyber
Week 12 (Apr 16-18)	Lying	Signalling	Blackcat and UnitedHealth
Week 13 (Apr 23-25)	Phishing	Phishing and Fraud	MGM
Week 14 (Apr 20-May 2)	Is More Security Better?	Cybersecurity is Bullshit	Semester Review
Week Finals (May 6)				Final Paper: Recent Incident

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