COE449: Network Security Engineering - Spring 2008 (T072)

Place: 24-153
Time: 10:00-11:15am (Sunday-Tuesday)

Announcements

• Check your marks here
• Office hours this week: Sun/Mon (1:00pm-3:30pm)

Description

Introduction to the fundamental concepts underlying the field of network security emphasizing system design.

Grading

• Homeworks: 20%
• Midterm: 20% - in class March 23 (Sunday)
• Project/Paper: 30%
• Final: 30%

Textbook

Matt Bishop, Introduction to Computer Security, Addison Wesley Professional, 2005.

Topics

• Introduction [pdf]
• Overview (chp 1) [pdf]
• Access Control (chp 2, 14) [pdf]
• Security Policies (Chp 4, 5, 6, 7) [pdf]
• Cryptography (Chp 8, 9) [pdf] — Ref. DES (FIPS-46), AES (FIPS-197) — Tools: jkrypto , CrypTool
• Authentication (chp 11) [pdf]
• Secure Design Principles (Chp 12) [pdf]
• Auditing (Chp 21) [pdf]
• Intrusion Detection (Chp 22) [pdf]
• Malicious Logic (Chp 19) [pdf]
• Network Security (case study) (Chp 23)

Homeworks (20%)

• hw1
• hw2
• hw3
• hw4

Project/Paper (30%)

• Report/Paper (20%): due May 20 (Tuesday)
• Presentation/demo (10%): 15 mins - last 2 weeks
• Suggested ideas here

Teams Presentations

Online Books

• Security in Computing, 4th Edition, Charles P. Pfleeger, Prentice Hall
• Practical Unix and Internet Security, Simon Garfinkel and Gene Spafford
• Cryptography: An Introduction, 2nd Edition, Nigel Smart

Misc Resources

• TeX Live : Latex for Linux/Unix
• MiKTeX : Latex for Windows
• R : statistical computing and graphics language
• NS-2 : The Network Simulator