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Course Detail

Course Name Network Security
Course Code 26CY602
Program M. Tech. in Cyber Security
Semester 1
Credits 3
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Syllabus

Techniques for Network Protection: Firewalls, packet filter and stateful firewalls, application aware firewalls, personal firewalls, Proxies, NAT, Intrusion Detection System-Snort, Signature and Anomaly based detection- Evasion and poisoning attacks, Honeypots and Honeynets, Network Log management-syslog or SPLUNK; RBAC, Network reconnaissance-Nmap and vulnerability audits-openVAS; DNS-Dig tool: DNS based attacks, Phishing, DNSSEC-DS and NSEC records; Network based malware attacks: Remote access Trojan-Poison Ivy and Domain name generation algorithm based Botnets; LAN attacks: ARP Cache poisoning, MAC flooding, Man in the middle attacks, Port Stealing, DHCP attacks, VLAN hopping, Password Cracking-John the Ripper ; Secure Network Communication: SCP, SSH, SSL3.0, TLS 1.2, STARTTLS, IPSec, VPN and Secure HTTP; Understanding the dark web, TOR traffic, Attacks on SSL/TLS: SSL stripping, Drown and Poodle attack; Encrypting and Signing Emails: PGP- GPG/openPGP, DKIM and SPF; Single Sign On (SSO)-OAUTH and OPENID; Network packet creation and Manipulation using scapy and dpkt libraries; Zero Trust Network Architecture (ZTNA), SDN Security

Self Study: Security of SCADA, TCP/IP interface protocols, and security/vulnerability issues, Dark Web analysis, ICS, and IoT

Objectives and Outcomes

Prerequisites

Prerequisites: Basic knowledge about computer networks and troubleshooting of network systems.

 

Course Outcome
Course Outcome(CO) Bloom’s Taxonomy Level
CO 1 Understand various techniques for Network Protection and explore new tools and attacks in the network security domain L2
CO 2 Exploring DNS-based attacks and DNSSEC L3
CO 3 Exploring Secure Network Communication protocols and attacks L4
CO 4 Exploring the protocols used for SSO and challenges, attacks related to Email communication L4
CO-PO Mapping

CO-PO Mapping (1-Low, 2-Medium, 3-High)

CO/PO PO 1 PO 2 PO 3 PO 4 PO 5 PO 6 PO 7 PO 8 PO 9 PO 10 PSO1 PSO2 PSO3
CO 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 3 3
CO 2 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 3 3
CO 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 3 3
CO 4 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 3 3
CO 5 2 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 3 3

Text Books / References

  1. William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security: Principles and Practice, 7th Edition, Pearson edition, 2016
  2. Vincent J. Nestler et al., Principles of Computer Security Lab Manual, 4th Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2014
  3. Behrouz A. Forouzan, Cryptography & Network Security, McGraw-Hill, 2007
  4. C. Kaufman, R. Perlman, and M. Speciner, Network Security: Private Communication
    in a Public World, 2nd Edition, Prentice Hall PTR, 2002.
  5. Gilman, E., & Barth, D. (2017). Zero Trust Networks: Building Secure Systems in Untrusted Networks. O’Reilly Media.

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