Week 11 Session: Operational security

Week 11 addresses attribution, infrastructure hygiene and the human errors that end campaigns technical detection never caught.

19 October 2027

Lecture 11

Operational Security

Attribution, infrastructure hygiene and the human errors behind famous operational-security failures

Lab 10

Lab 10: "How Did They Get Caught?"

Reconstruct a fictional actor from logs, metadata and operational-security mistakes, and assess the attribution evidence.

Assignment 2

Assignment 2: Don't Get Caught

A CTF-style practical requiring students to infect an assigned target machine, retrieve the flag, and remain undetected while doing so.

Teaching team