Intro to Network Security

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course introduces students to Internet security. Students will learn about current threats and defenses by examining case studies, seminal research papers, and monographs in a wide range of security areas. Topics covered include cryptography, network design fundamentals, authentication, confidentiality protocols, worms, botnets, denial-of-service attacks, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, secure routing, network privacy and anonymity, spam, web security, network eavesdropping, social engineering, and computer crime.