Network Security and Monitoring

Overview

• Network fundamentals, OSI model, TCP/IP, network protocols
• Network threats and vulnerabilities
• Anatomy of an attack from a network perspective
• Secure network principles, design and architectures
• Network security monitoring theory and practice
• Packet and flow analysis
• Access control, firewalls and DMZs
• Intrusion detection, prevention and response
• Tools for network monitoring and pen-testing
• Emerging topics in network security.

Learning Objectives

• Comprehensive understanding of key problems in network security and
the threat landscape
• Critical awareness of how network traffic can be manipulated and the
network misused to enable attacks, the consequent risks, and an ability to
select mitigation measures
• Ability to devise, analyse and make judgements on the effectiveness of
prevention, monitoring and detection tools and methodologies
• Ability to design and assess a network architecture based on secure
design principles
• Practical skills to monitor and analyse networks using appropriate
software tools

Skills

Successful participation in this module will enable students to develop skills in the following areas:
• Good cyber security practice in the specification, design, implementation, evaluation and maintenance of security solutions.
• Retrieve information independently, from a variety of sources and by a variety of techniques.
• Manage one’s own learning and development including time management and organisational skills.
• Ability to critically evaluate a given system design, and identify significant vulnerabilities, risks, and points at which specific cyber security methods and technologies should be employed.
• Effectively use of tools for development and testing of cyber secure systems.
• Articulate and effectively communicate the design and technological rationale for a given cyber security component or design through appropriate technical reports and presentations.

Assessment

None