Computer Network Security

Catalog description

This course will explore each layer of the internet protocol stack, focusing on security deficiencies, and remedies to those security deficiencies, and will involve extensive lab exercises using the Deter Lab shared testbed (accessed via the Internet to enable distance education participants). It will study computer network security architecture and security mechanisms to protect against sophisticated adversarial attacks. This course reviews cryptographic primitives that underlie most network security mechanisms, then applies this understanding to network services proving authentication for data and transaction integrity and availability, and encryption for confidentiality. It also covers the integration of security services into network applications and utilities including secure mail, secure web services, secure wireless, and investigates system security issues such as for firewalls and intrusion detections systems.