Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity
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Dear Learner
Thank you for signing up for our online course "Cyber Security and Privacy". We wish you an enjoyable and
informative learning experience.
The course will begin on 24 July 2023 When content is released on the portal, you will get an email alerting you.
Every week, about 2.5 to 4 hours of videos containing content by the Course instructor will be released along with
an assignment based on this. Please watch the lectures, follow the course regularly and submit all assessments
and assignments before the due date. Your regular participation is vital for learning and doing well in the course.
This will be done week on week through the duration of the course.
Please do the assignments yourself and even if you take help, kindly try to learn from it. These assignment will help
you prepare for the final exams. Plagiarism and violating the Honor code will be taken very seriously if detected
during the submission of assignments.
The announcement group - will only have messages from course instructors and teaching assistants - regarding
the lessons, assignments, exam registration, hall tickets etc.
The discussion forum (Ask a question tab on the portal) - is for everyone to ask questions and interact.Anyone who
knows the answers can reply to anyone's post and the course instructor/TA will also respond to your queries.
Please make maximum use of this feature as this will help you learn much better.
If you have any questions regarding the exam, registration, hall tickets, results, queries related to the technical
content in the lectures, any doubts in the assignments, etc can be posted in the forum section
Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 8 assignments out of the total 12 assignments given in the
course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE
>= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos
of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.
Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.
- NPTEL team