Network Security and Defense

Catalog description

This course will introduce the students to an overall view of network security and the latest defense techniques and strategies known in the enterprise. Starting with understanding network elements and architecture to how to identify and understand the different vector of attacks on a network. This includes sampling forensics and understanding the new concept of threat intelligence. Students will understand risk assessment and risk management for different components of the network and the impact of the different kinds of threats and attacks. In addition, the course will elaborate on the essentials of how to design, architect a secure enterprise network and how to define security policies, and how-to police it using intrusion detection/ prevention systems. The course is mainly a hands-on all along from examining network security, learning how to attack a network, and learn how to defend it. Policy design and enforcement lab as well as IDS/IPS set up and configuration.