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CY-503 (B) · Network Security/Official Syllabus

Network Security (CY-503 (B)) - Official Syllabus

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Unit 1

Review of Cryptography

  • Review of Cryptography: Symmetric Encryption Principles
  • Symmetric Block Encryption Algorithms
  • Random and Pseudorandom Numbers
  • Stream Ciphers and RC4
  • Cipher Block Modes of Operation
  • Approaches to Message Authentication
  • Secure Hash Function
  • Message Authentication Codes
  • Public-Key Cryptography Principles
  • Public-Key Cryptography Algorithms
  • Digital Signatures
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Unit 2

Hardware and Software Security

  • Hardware Security
  • Smart Cards
  • Biometrics
  • Virtual Private Networks
  • Types of VPNs
  • Trusted Operating Systems
  • Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)
  • Security Protocols
  • Security Socket Layer
  • Transport Layer Security
  • IPSec
  • S/MIME
3
Unit 3

Intrusion Detection Systemand Firewalls

  • IDS- Infrastructure of IDS
  • Classification of IDS
  • Host-based IDS
  • Network based IDS
  • Anomaly v/s Signature Detection
  • Normal Behavior
  • Patterns-Anomaly Detection
  • Misbehaviour Signatures-Signature Detection
  • Parameter Pattern Matching
  • Managing an IDS
  • Malicious Software
  • Safeguards
  • Firewalls
  • Packet-Filtering Firewalls
  • State full Inspection Firewalls
  • Proxy firewalls
  • Guard
  • Personal Firewalls
  • Limitations of Firewalls
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Unit 4

Wireless Security

  • Wireless Application Protocol
  • WAP Security
  • Authentication
  • Integrity
  • Confidentiality
  • Security Issues with Wireless Transport Layer Security (WTLS)
  • Wireless LAN
  • WLAN Configuration
  • WLAN Technology consideration
  • Wireless LAN Security
  • Access Point Security
  • Work Station Security
  • Safeguarding Wireless LANs
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Unit 5

Web Security

  • Client/Server Architecture
  • Security considerations and Threats
  • Web traffic security approaches
  • SSL/TLS for secure web services
  • The Twin concept of “SSL Connection” and “SSL Session”
  • SSL session state
  • SSL Connection State
  • SSL Record Protocol
  • SSL Handshake Protocol
  • S-HTTP
  • Secure Electronic Transaction(SET)
  • Business Requirements
  • SET Participants
  • SET Transaction Flow

Reference Books

  • Network Security Essentials: Applications and Standards — William Stallings — Pearson Education
  • Network Security and Management — Brijendra Sing — PHI
  • Network Security Bible — Eric Cole — Wiley
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