Network Security

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the students will be able understand the importance of network security. They will be exposed to the concept of securing information transmission through the network using various encryption techniques. The students will understand the underlying technologies that enable the current commercial activities via unsecure Internet.

Topics

1. Network technology
2. The principles aspects of network security and OSI standard
3. Threat and attack
4. System access security
5. Malicious software
6. Traditional cryptography
7. Contemporary symmetric encryption
8. Public key cryptography
9. Hash and message digest
10. Authentication
11. IP sec and SSL
12. E-mail security
13. IDS and firewall