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IS-852 Data Communication Networks & Security
Campus MCS
Programs PG
Session Summer Semester 2016
Course Title Data Communication Networks & Security
Course Code IS-852
Credit Hours 3+0
Pre-Requisutes
Course Objectives The aim of the course is to provide the students an understanding of the principles of network communication and various concepts in areas of network security, including physical-layer security, network-layer security, and transport-layer security.
Detail Content
  1. Introduction: OSI 7-layer network model: (physical, data-link, network, transport, session, presentation, application), Physical layer security issues (interference, interception), Data-link layer security issues (point-to-point security), Network layer security issues, Transport layer security issues
  2. Network security protocols: IPSec, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS).
  3. Types of attacks: Passive attacks, Active attacks, Foot printing, Host scanning, Port scanning (SYN, FIN/Xmas/null, protocol, idle), Denial of Service, Network services.
  4. Attacks on TCP/IP networks: Packet sniffing (passive, active), IP spoofing, Hijacking, Remote OS detection, Packet filtering, Firewalls, Network address translation, Denial of Service (teardrop, flooding, amplification, distributed DoS, low-rate TCP attacks).
  5. Security of wireless networks: IEEE 802.11 (WEP, WPA), Bluetooth (blue jacking, blue snarfing).
  6. Application security: Software vulnerabilities and exploits (buffer overflow, format string), Types of malicious software, Self-propagating malware.
Text/Ref Books
  1. “Data Communications and Networking” by Behrouz A. Forouzan 2. Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman, Mike Speciner, Network Security: PRIVATE Communication in a PUBLIC World, Prentice-Hall, 2002
  1. Jon Erickson, Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, No Starch Press, 2003.
  2. Stuart McClure, Joel Scambray, George Kurtz, Hacking Exposed (5th edition), McGraw-Hill, 2005.
Time Schedule Summer Semester 2015
Faculty/Resource Person Lec Mian Muhammad Waseem Iqbal, MS

National University of Science and Technology, Islamabad
Discipline: Information Security
Specialization: Information Security