This course looks at the network security in defensive view. The NSA program is designed to provide fundamental skills needed to analyze the internal and external security threats against a network, and to develop security policies that will protect an organization’s information. Students will learn how to evaluate network and Internet security issues and design, and how to implement successful security policies and firewall strategies. In addition, they will learn how to expose system and network vulnerabilities and defend against them.

This course consists of the following modules – Introduction To Network Security, Network Protocols, Security Policy, Physical Security, Network Attacks, Intrusion Detection System, Firewalls, Packet Filtering and Proxy Servers, Bastion Host and Honeypots, Hardening Routers, Hardening Operating Systems Security, Patch Management, Application Security, Web Security, E-Mail Security, Encryption, Virtual Private Networks, WLAN, Creating Fault Tolerance, Incident Response, Disaster Recovery and Planning.

The duration of this course is 10 weeks with 40 instructor contact hours.

There will be 2 assignments and one exam in this course.

Assignment 1 ----------- 20 marks
Assignment 2 ----------- 40 marks
Course Exam ------------ 40 marks
Total -------------------- 100 marks