CSCI 3510

Network Security

Credit Hours
3
Contact Hours
4
Course Coordinator
Mohammad Khan

Catalog Description

Explores information security topics such as firewalls, access control lists, network address translation, virtual private networks, network topologies and segmentation, demilitarized zones, forward/reverse proxies, and their relationship to the OSI model.

Prerequisite(s)

CSCI 3400 and CSCI 3500, each with a C or better

Course Outcomes

  • Deploy secure communications across a network.
  • Create a firewall to support secure network access given a network topology.
  • Implement technical controls to support a given security policy.
  • Analyze logs to detect network traffic patterns and improve performance or detect malicious traffic.

Topics

  • Background of Network Security
  • Introduction to Number Theory
  • Symmetric Ciphers
  • Asymmetric Ciphers
  • Cryptographic Data Integrity Algorithms
  • Mutual Trust
  • Network and Internet Security

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