Course Weekly Lecture Plan

Week	Topic
1	Introduction to the concepts: cloud, distributed systems and cyber-physical systems
2	Communication models in distributed systems: sockets, remote procedure call, distributed shared memory
3	Fault tolerance in cloud and distributed systems. Byzantine Quorums
4	Distributed file systems and replication
5	Agreement and Commitment concepts; secure protocols for these. Achieving consensus via Paxos protocol
6	Availability and resiliency concepts
7	Security concept: threats and goals in cloud
8	Deployment models in cloud: IaaS, PaaS, SaaS. Effects of deployment models to security
9	Benefits of virtualization in cloud and its security problems
10	Resource pooling concept in cloud. Effects of multi-tenancy to security
11	Disclosing private data in cloud by metering resource usage; methods of preventing privacy leakage
12	Security threats in cyber-physical systems
13	Cost of security: EDoS, DoS and DDoS attacks
14	Applications of cyber-physical systems: IoT, smart-cities, means of production, critical infrastructures. Engineering approaches to foresee future threats.