Advanced program in Network Security

This course covers advanced network security issues and solutions. The course starts with consideration of why network security is necessary, network vulnerabilities and the types of attacks networks need to defend against. Discussion of basic security concepts of security services, and the role played by encryption and hash algorithms along with issues and approaches for key management follow. Particular focus and emphasis are then covered regarding to network security capabilities and mechanisms (Access Control on wired and wireless networks), IPsec, Firewalls, Deep Packet Inspection and network flow monitoring. A discussion of network application security (Email, Web, P2P, etc.) is presented followed by consideration of network utility (DNS, NTP, etc.) and management protocols (SNMP, RMON, etc.), management tools (Syslog, vulnerability scanning, penetration texting, etc.)