CS 624 Hands-On Network Security
Designed for IT graduate students, this course uses VMWare of Connectix Virtual PC to simulate different environments. It examines networking security topics, firewalls (using Linux), packet filters, NAT, PAT, socks and HTTP proxies, public key infrastructure (using Microsoft Certification Server), encryption algorithms, decrypting passwords, dictionary decryption, brute force decryption, certificate servers, vulnerability assessment, identifying security holes, forensics, tracing, log analysis, Layer 5 vulnerabilities (Services/Daemons and OS), identifying denial of service attack (simulation), identifying a virus/work attack (simulation), and packet monitoring (sniffing).
Prerequisite
CS 621 Principles of Data Communication and
CS 622 Network Security I