Network Defense and CountermeasuresModule Details

Rationale
The main objectives of the course are to: Present the layered defense approach to securing systems; Present risk assessment as a technique to protect assets and information; Expose students to security policy design and implementation; Expose students to practical techniques that aim in defending computer networks from network attacks and malicious software; Provide a comprehensive view of contemporary network defensing technologies; Motivate the need to integrate security in the system development lifecycle to better protect the system.

Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course students will be expected to:

(i) Discuss a wide range of network attacks.
(ii) Apply risk assessment techniques related to security threats.
(iii) Identify network attacks (denial of service, flooding, sniffing and traffic redirection, inside attacks, etc.) and basic network defense tools.
(iv) Identify various types of malicious software and use countermeasure defense/detection tools.
(v) Apply practical ways to harden Web and Internet Resources, as well as Operating Systems.
(vi) Create a solid enterprise-wide information security infrastructure, including analysing the security needs of the enterprise, designing a strategic plan to address the security requirements,
(vii) Select the appropriate tools to implement the security organisational policies, and establishing recovery techniques from disruptive and destructive information security events.