TITLE: Network Security

1. CATALOG DESCRIPTION:
   A lecture and lab course that concentrates on the techniques for securing data networks and network operating systems.
   
   
2. PURPOSE:
   Help the student develop techniques for securing local area network environments.
   
   
3. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
   To provide the Telecommunications student with the skills necessary to effectively protect network architectures and operating systems from modern intrusion techniques.
   
   
4. CONTENT OUTLINE:
   
   1. Network Access Policy
      
      1. Risk Analysis and Management
         
      2. Common Network Services
         
      3. Resolving Security Tradeoffs
         
      4. Controlling Network Services
         
      5. Legal Issues
   2. Security Implementation Policy
      
      1. Security Policies
         
      2. Incident Response
   3. Firewall Architecture
      
      1. Perimeter Definition
         
      2. The Demilitarized Zone
         
      3. Firewall Definition
         
      4. Depth of Defense
         
      5. Device Relationships
         
      6. Architecture Issues
         
      7. Modifying and Maintaining the Architecture
   4. Firewall Components
      
      1. Bastion Hosts
         
      2. Packet Filters
         
      3. Proxy Servers
         
      4. Stateful Inspection
   5. Authentication
      
      1. Authenticators
         
      2. Authentication Placement
         
      3. Issues
   6. Encryption
      
      1. Evaluating Need
         
      2. Techniques
         
      3. Tradeoffs
   7. Intrusion Detection
      
      1. Intrusion Detection Systems
         
      2. Network-Based vs Host-Based
         
      3. Typical IDS Features
         
      4. Placement
         
      5. Issues
   8. Platform Specific Implementations
      
      1. UNIX
         
      2. NT
         
      3. 2000
      
      
   
   
5. INSTRUCTIONAL ACTIVITIES:
   Lecture, Lab and Discussion.
   
   
6. FIELD, CLINICAL, AND/OR LABORATORY EXPERIENCES:
   None.
   
   
7. RESOURCES:
   http://msumusik.mursuky.edu/mac
   http://www.exroads.com
   
   
8. GRADING PROCEDURES:
1. GRADING FACTORS:

   Factor	Final Grade %
   Labs (5 - 10)	50%
   Tests (2)	50%

   
   
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 each lab session. No provisions will be made for making up absences from labs. A student is allowed ONE ABSENCE for each MIDTERM. That is, one allowed absence before midterm, and one after. A missed lab will still result in a reduction of the grade for that lab report. Two or more absences within a single midterm will automatically fail that student. Note that this does not apply to the Recitation sessions--but no provisions will be made for making up quizzes.
   
   
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:
    Network Security, Eric Maiwald
    
    
12. PREREQUISITES:
    TSM 242.