ITIS 6167 Network and Information Security

Course Description

3 Credit hours. Cross-listed as HCIP 6167. Prerequisite: ITIS 6200 or equivalent. Examines the issues related to network security. Topics include: network security background and motivation, network centric threats, network authentication and identification, network security protocols, firewall, IDS, security in wireless environments, email security, instant message security, network application security, and network based storage security. There are heavy lab based components in this course.

Grading Policy

4-5 Assignment 40%
Course Project and Demo/Presentation 30%
Final Exam 30%

Text books:

Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems by Stephen Northcutt, ,Lenny Zeltser, Scott Winters, Karen Fredrick, Ronald Ritchey, New Rideres Publishing – ISBN: 0735712328

Additional reading will be assigned.

Topics (by week)

  1. Overview of Internet Protocols and Cryptographic Techniques/Systems
  2. Network Security Attacks: Survey, Modeling and Simulation
  3. Packet capture and analysis
  4. Firewalls: concept, types, design, configuration and optimization
  5. Distributed Firewalls: architecture, policy Management and conflict detection, defense-in-depth, and load-balancing
  6. Firewall Technology Development: network programming for application-level firewall, IPSec: protocols, operations, and configuration, Review
  7. Midterm, VPN Design and NAT: VPN design, policy management.
  8. Network Security Enterprise Design: Integration of Network Security Countermeasures.
  9. Security Configuration Analytics for cyber and software defined networks
  10. Overview of intrusion detection, Signature-based Intrusion Detection System, Snort Intrusion Detection System
  11. Anomaly-based intrusion detection I
  12. Anomaly-based intrusion detection II
  13. Wireless Security
  14. Scan and DDOS detectors, IP traceback,
  15. DNS security, Review
  16. Final Exam

Academic Integrity

All students are required to read and abide by the Code of Student Academic Integrity. Violations of the Code of Student Academic Integrity, including plagiarism, will result in disciplinary action as provided in the Code.Definitions and examples of plagiarism are set forth in the Code. The Code is available from the Dean of Students Office or online.