Security and Networking

Catalog description

This course introduces the principles and practice of computer networking with emphasis on the Internet and related protocols, including UDP, TCP, IP, HTTP, DNS, and DHCP with a focus on the application, transport, and network layers. The course introduces the structure, components, and functionality of network message processing including encoding, multiplexing, and encapsulation. Security topics introduced include encryption, public key infrastructure, and mitigation of network attacks. Throughout the course, an emphasis is placed on interpreting byte and bit level encoding of network protocols.