Network Security

Information on the course Network Security is kept here. The course is part of the Master en Management de la Sécurité des Système d'Information (MSSI).

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Lecturers

Prof. Dr. S. Mauw

Assistants

Dr. S. Dashevskyi

Lectures

Lectures are on Feb. 23, Mar. 9 and Mar. 23. The lectures are taught in English.

Tentative outline of the lectures:

Date	Outline
Friday, Feb. 23	CIA Triad, ISO-OSI network model, VPN, IPSec, and SSL/TLS
Friday, Mar. 9	Firewalls, intrusion detecion systems, and E-mail security (Part 1)
Friday, Mar. 23	E-mail security (Part 2), security protocols, RFID protocols, web security

Objectives

By the end of the course the students will

have a raised security awareness.
be able to identify soft spots and potential points of attack in networks;
understand the basic principles of preventive, detective and corrective measures that are normally applied for securing networks (firewalls, etc).

Reading material

The main text book for this course is William Stalling's "Network Security Essentials, Applications and Standards", Fourth Edition, Prentice Hall, 2010. ISBN-10: 0-13-610805-9

Several other books that are interesting as well:

Stallings, William, Lawrie Brown, Michael D. Bauer, and Arup Kumar Bhattacharjee. Computer security: principles and practice. Pearson Education, 2012.
Pfleeger, Charles P., and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger. Security in computing. Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, 2002.
Gollmann, Dieter. "Computer security." Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics, 2010.