Note: The following provides a suggested course description,
objectives, and an outline. These may be modified pending discussion with
the Faculty Chairs, proposing faculty, and other curriculum
reviewers.
Course Description: We will cover practical
topics in modern network security: risk assessment, policy and mechanism,
malicious code, intrusion prevention/detection/response, and network
applications. The emphasis is on the tradeoffs between risk of misuse,
cost of prevention, and societal issues. Concepts implemented in
programming projects.
Course Outline by Topical Areas:
- Policy and Mechanism
- Risk assessment
- Malicious code
- Intrusion prevention, detection, response
- Security tools
- Authentication techniques
- Network application issues (WWW, Firewalls, X, E-mail)
- Societal concerns
- Formal approaches
- Developing security tools
