Advanced Network Security

1.5 credits · Graduate

Presents, from a practical perspective, underlying principles and techniques of network security. Students are exposed to ethical hacking and penetration testing. Various protection methods, used in practice to detect and respond to malicious network attacks, are presented. Students also learn how to implement successful security policies and defense mechanisms and strategies, with a particular focus on firewalls, intrusion detection and response, virtual private networks and biometrics technologies.