Security has become one of the essential aspects of networking. This course covers the need for and the building blocks of network and information security, threats to our networks today and fundamental principles of secure network design. It also provides coverage of different threat landscape topics and common attacks such as VLAN hopping, MAC snooping and denial-of-service (DoS). The course introduces VPNs and the related ingredients of cryptography. The course ends by presenting various firewall concepts and the technologies used by them.
Keywords
LAN attacks, ICMP, Risk Analysis, IPsec, ACL, Firewall.
Prerequisite
Introduction to networking.
Bibliography
Network Security Architectures, by Sean Convery, 2004
Computer System Security: Basic Concepts and Solved Exercises, by Gildas Avoine, Philippe Oechslin, and Pascal Junod, 2007
Computer Security and the Internet: Tools and Jewels, by Paul C. van Oorschot, 2020
Guide to Computer Network Security (5th edition), by Joseph Migga Kizza, 2020