security-summer-school / essentials-security

Security Summer School: Security Essentials Track

Essentials Security

These are open educational resources (OER). The repository should be used as a template for the your own classes.

Using the Content

The content is located in the chapters/ folder. It currently consists of 4 chapters:

• Scratch Linux
• Demystifying the Web
• Data
• Binary Introduction

Each chapter has its own folder. Content for each chapter is split in subfolders according to each topic: Each topic is further split into different kinds of materials that refer to it. These may be any collection of the following:

• reading/: content to be assimilated by learners on their own
• slides/: content to be aggregated into presentations
• drills/: practical exercises for learners
• media/: images, videos, audio or auxiliary materials to be imported in text content
• demos/: snippets to be presented by educators
• guides/: tutorials for learners with guided steps towards the solution

Chapter Contents

Lecture content consists of slides and demos. Slides are written in GitHub Markdown and use reveal-md and reveal.js to render HTML output. Lecture slides are built from the slides.md file using the make command (and the Makefile). Demos are snippets of code and support files that showcase concepts and ideas related to the lecture. Demos are located in the demo/ folder. Each demo has its own folder with source code, Makefile or other build files (if required) and support files.

Lab content consists of lab text and lab activities. Lab text is placed in the README.md file. Each lab activity has its own folder with source code, Makefile or other build files (if required) and support files.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome. See the contribution guide on how you could report or fix issues and on how you can improve the content.

Reviewers are requested to follow the reviewing guide.