TITLE: Network Systems Security I

1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
   A primarily lab-based course, studying security issues associated with network operating systems. One hour lecture and four hours laboratory. Prerequisites: TSM 242, TSM 340
   
   
2. PURPOSE:
   To provide the Telecommunications student with the procedures involved in securing operating systems as well as responding to an intrusion.
   
   
3. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
   To provide the student with enough background to be familiar with electrical and electronic terminology, basic circuit analysis techniques, to be able to perform rudimentary troubleshooting and to define and specify general electrical system needs.
   
   
4. CONTENT OUTLINE:
   
   1. Operating Systems Basics
      Learn the importance of updating operating systems with latest service packs and patches by seeing what happens when you fail to patch security breaches.
      
      1. Hot fixes and Service Packs - NT
         
      2. CVS updates & releases - Unix/Linux
   2. Tightening Operating Systems
      Walk through the steps in tightening security in both platforms.
      
      1. Bastille - Linux
         
      2. Hardening NT - NT from SANS
   3. Setting Up IDS
      Install Intrusion Detection Systems and learn what they monitor and how they can help in monitoring a network.
      
      1. SNORT
         
      2. NFR
         
      3. Black Ice
         
      4. Sensor
         
      5. NETSonar
   4. Attacks
      Simulate attacks and learn how to deal with the effects.
      
      1. DDoS
         
      2. Other Attacks
   5. Viruses
      
      1. Virus Attacks
         
      2. Defending Attacks
   6. Challenge
      Take what we have learned from above and apply in a challenge between different groups of students in the class.
      
      1. Setup your server
         
      2. Install IDS
         
      3. Attack the other groups
   7. Incident Handling
      Go through the steps of cleaning up and handling the incident after the attack has occurred.
      
      1. Detect
         
      2. Analyze
         
      3. Clean-up
   
   
5. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
   Lecture, discussion and laboratory exercises.
   
   
6. FIELD, CLINICAL, AND/OR LABORATORY EXPERIENCES:
   Four hours of laboratory work each week.
   
   
7. RESOURCES:
   http://msumusik.mursuky.edu/mac
   http://msumusik.mursuky.edu/mac
   
   
8. GRADING PROCEDURES:
1. GRADING FACTORS:

   Factor	Final Grade %
   Laboratory	60%
   Exam Grades	40%

   
   
2. GRADING SCALE

   Average		Grade
   90 or above		A
   80 - 89%		B
   70 - 79%		C
   60 - 69%		D
   Below 60%		E

   
   
9. ATTENDANCE POLICY:
   This course will adhere to the policy published in the MSU Undergraduate Bulletin. Attendance will be recorded for each laboratory session. One unexcused absence in each half of the semester will result in a grade reduction for the laboratory report for that missed laboratory session. Two or more unexcused absences within either half of the semester will automatically result in a failing grade for the course. Make-up exams will be given only for excused absences.
   
   
10. ACADEMIC HONESTY POLICY:
    Cheating, plagiarism (submitting another person's material as one's own), or doing work for another person which will receive academic credit are all impermissible. This includes the use of unauthorized books, notebooks or other sources in order to secure or give help during an examination; the unauthorized copying of examinations, assignments, reports or term papers; or the presentation of unacknowledged material as if it were the student's own work. Disciplinary action may be taken beyond the academic discipline administered by the faculty member who teaches the course in which the cheating took place.
    
    
11. TEXT AND REFERENCES:
    Hacking Exposed, by Joel Scambray, 2nd Edition, 2001
    
    
12. PREREQUISITES:
    TSM 242, TSM 340.