Lecture Topics

Please see our Canvas page for the course to download lectures mentioned below.

• Network security introduction and overview
• Network design
• Security management and policy
• Threat modeling
• Cryptography
• Layered architectural approach to network protocols
• Physical layer
• Network interfaces
• Link layer
• Switches, bridges, VLANs
• Network layer
• VPN
• Transport layer
• Sockets
• Application layer
• WWW
• Electronic mail
• DNS and DHCP
• NFS, TFTP, and FTP
• TELNET and SSH
• Identity management
• Authentication (includes MFA)
• Firewalls and filters
• IDS, IPS, and Suricata
• Honeypots, tarpits, and sinkholes
• Security information and event management
• Zero trust security