Future Learn notes: Automotive Cyber Security: An Introduction Coventry University
These are the notes I have made whilst doing the titled course on Future learn. More detail on this can also be found on my Folio space . Week 1 What is the difference between vulnerability and threat? A vulnerability is a weakness to attack where as a threat is the intent to or act of attacking. What are the requirements to compromise a device? For a device to be compromised it must have a means of access that is unproteted or inadequately protected from attack. What does root credential mean? Log in/account details. What does reconnaissance mean? Observation and recording to build a picture of the subjects life patterns. What is misconfiguration (security)? Having a security system that fails to protect the thing that needs protecting fully. A very simple example would be a locked compound with all of the valuables on the outside, What is port scanning? Can you name a few tools? Port scanning is essentially knocking on doors. A request for access is attempted on all ...