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 Objectives: 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
