CS 09427 - Principles of Network Security

Credits: 3

This course examines the fundamentals of network security. The material covered in this course includes such topics as cryptographic systems necessary for network security, public key infrastructure, principles of data integrity, authentication, and key management, Internet architecture and TCP/ICP protocol suite, application layer security, secure sockets layer and transport layer security protocols, IPSec, distributed and cloud security, wireless and mobile security, network security techniques and components, network-based vulnerability detection and penetration testing, defense in depth, and others. Students will prepare and deliver technical presentations on state-of-the-art research topics in the network security.

Prerequisite Courses: (CS 01210 with a minimum grade of D- or CS 09410 with a minimum grade of D- or CS 06410 with a minimum grade of D-) and (CS 07351 with a minimum grade of D- or CS 03351 with a minimum grade of D-)
Course Attributes: CAT, UGRD