NCS4004:Advanced network Security

DescriptionThe overall objective of the course is to develop advanced student capabilities (skills) in network security. This course covers techniques and mechanisms for network intrusion detection and prevention both in wired and wireless networks. Topics covered mainly include: configuring intrusion detection systems, generating common attacks, Intrusion detection based network architectures, attack signatures, filtering rules for network monitoring, Snort IDS, denial of services (DoS) attacks, distributed DoS attacks, buffer overflow attack, Man-in-the-Middle attacks, ARP cache poisoning attacks, common mobile and wireless network attacks, IP spoofing based attacks, malicious sniffing attacks in wired and wireless networks, NIC promiscuous mode detection, common attacks on firewalls and network devices. Lecture: 2 hrs/week; Lab: 2 hrs/week.