- 8
- Units
- 32
- Lessons
- 0
- Labs
Elective — Defend networks: threats, vulnerabilities, security protocols, firewalls, intrusion detection and security policy.
What you'll learn
The key areas this subject covers, mapped to the official curriculum.
Course units
The structured path through this subject.
- 1
Computer Network Security Fundamentals
The language of security: threats and attacks, security services and mechanisms, the OSI security architecture, and security models.
4 topics · 4 lessons available
- 2
User Authentication
Proving identity: passwords and message authentication, hash functions, digital signatures, and key distribution for authentication.
4 topics · 4 lessons available
- 3
Transport Level Security
Securing the pipe: TLS architecture, the TLS handshake, HTTPS in practice, and the limits and attack surface of transport security.
4 topics · 4 lessons available
- 4
Wireless Network Security
Securing the air: WLAN threats, the WEP-to-WPA journey, and the security design of modern Wi-Fi protected access.
4 topics · 4 lessons available
- 5
Electronic Mail Security
Securing the inbox: email threats, PGP for message confidentiality and integrity, S/MIME, and DNSSEC as the backbone of trust.
4 topics · 4 lessons available
- 6
IP Security
Securing the layer: the IP security architecture, AH and ESP, security associations, and the key exchange protocols that bind them.
4 topics · 4 lessons available
- 7
Network Endpoint Security
Securing the device: firewalls, intrusion detection and prevention, and the role of systems that stand between the network and its users.
4 topics · 4 lessons available
- 8
Cloud and Internet of Things (IOT) Security
Security beyond the perimeter: cloud shared responsibility, threats to the cloud stack, IoT risk, and securing the connected home and factory.
4 topics · 4 lessons available
Subject details
- Code
- CSC-426
- Credit hours
- 3
- Semester
- Semester VII
- Category
- networks