Module description
Aims and Learning Outcomes
This module is all about the security of networks of computers and their communications. It describes Network Fundamentals, and the security of Internet protocols, including wired, wireless and mobile communication networks. It will also describe network attacks and countermeasures, particularly focusing on intrusion detection and prevention systems.
On successful completion of this module, students will:
Be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of security properties for networks and the principal approaches to guaranteeing those properties
- Demonstrate an understanding of network attacks
- Demonstrate an understanding of network security protocols
- Apply intrusion detection and prevention systems
- Demonstrate an understanding of Mobile and Wireless security
Syllabus
An indication of the types of topic:
- Network fundamentals
- Ethernet, ARP, DHCP, IP/TCP, DNS, BGP
- Network attacks
- Including physical interception, ARP spoofing and poisoning, DNS poisoning, IP spoofing, DCHP starvation and rogue server, packet sniffing, DoS/DDoS, Man-in-the-middle, BGP route hijacking
- Network security protocols
- tunneling, VPNs, TLS, SSH, IPSec
- Anonymity and privacy
- including proxies, onion routing, censorship circumvention
- Intrusion detection and prevention systems
- stateless and stateful firewalls, and traffic filtering
- intrusion analysis and detection
- network monitoring (including Netflow)
- Honeypots
- Mobile and Wireless security
- Wireless cracking, and Rogue wireless access point
- Wireless security
- Mobile security
Assessment details
Please note: The below assessment details for the 2024/25 academic year may be updated. The confirmed details will be available on the Student Handbook and on the module KEATS page at the beginning of the semester.
- 85% Examination
- 15% Coursework