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COMP4320/COMP6468: Network Security

About the course:

This is a 3-unit course starting from year 2002.

Unit Lecturer & Unit Tutor:

Chuan-Kun Wu

Delivery:

About 15 one-hour lectures plus 3 two-hour tutorials.

Prerequisites:

A minimum 12 units of 3000-IT courses including one of the following: COMP3310, COMP3400, or COMP3410.

Syllabus:

This course teaches fundamental theory and techniques of information security, particularly information security in the networked environment. Network security threats are looked at and security services against each of the threats are studied. Basic security measurements, security algorithms, and security protocols will be covered.

Objectives:

After the study of this course, students are expected to have a good knowledge in network security, available tools and their characteristics, their restrictions in applications to specific environments. This course will help students in reasoning why information transmitted over the public networks, particularly the Internet, can be secure of a certain level and have what kind of security threats.

Contents -- the following topics will be covered (may change at any time)

1. Security threats and security services
2. Security Management
3. Secret (Symmetric) Key Cryptography
4. Public Key Cryptography
5. Digital Signatures
6. Public Key Infrastructures
7. Authentication
8. Network Authentication Protocols
9. Electronic Mail Security
10. IP Security
11. Web Security
12. Network Management Security
13. System Security

Assessment:

1. Assignment 1 (20%) + Assignment 2 (20%) + Final exam (60%).
2. If assignments or exam is missed, then final_grade = NCN (not completed).
3. If (assignment1 + assignment2) < 16, or final_exam < 24, then final_grade = N (fail).
4. Else final_grade = assignment1 + assignment2 + final_exam.

Text books:

William Stallings, Network Security Essentials, Prentice-Hall, 2000. (ISBN 0-13-016093-8).

References:

1. Lecture notes of this course.
2. William Stallings, Cryptography and Network Security, Principles and Practices, 2nd edition, Prentice-Hall, 1999.