Cyber Defense Overview

Credit Level: Undergraduate Credit Hrs: 3.00
Any one of the following is sufficient:

1. an undergraduate curriculum in computer science, computer engineering, or electrical engineering up to senior year;

2. permission of the instructor.

Logistics

Meets: Wednesday, Friday 4:40PM - 6:10PM, Braunstein 201
Course material: lecture notes, web pages, texts, and additional references

Course Description

Hands-on treatment of techniques for hardening computer systems and components against attacks, principally via the internet, and for controlling damage and possibly launching countermeasures in case of attack. Specifically, the following are considered:

network security techniques and kinds of attacks
firewalls
intrusion detection
intrusion prevention
cryptography
signature-based malicious code identification
defense-in-depth
distributed/cloud computing
identification of reconnaissance operations
anomaly detection and identification
malicious activity detection
identification of command and control operations
trust relationships
virtualization
system security architectures
multiple independent levels of security

Describe, evaluate, and operate defense network architecture employing multiple layers of software and data protection (MILS) using technology appropriate for secure mission accomplishment

Keywords

Confidentiality, Message Integrity, Authentication, Public Key Encryption, Secret Key Encrption, Block Cipher, Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange, RSA, Password Authentication, AES, RSA, Key Distribution Center, Certification Authority, Kerberos, HMAC, Public Key Infrastructure, Kill Chain Attack Model, Monitoring Systems, Bro Network Security Monitor, Firewalls, Routers, Email Servers, Event-driven Host Monitors, Virtual Private Network, Digital Rights Management, Intrusion Detection, Malware Analysis, Anomaly Detection, CRITs Intelligence Database, Virtualization.