COMP6034
Network Security
- Credit
- 6 units
- Catalogue year
- 2027
- Recorded offerings
- Second Semester
Course information
This course covers a range of concepts, techniques and technologies in network security. This includes an overview of relevant network protocols and cryptography; analyses of designs and implementations of security protocols, including basic tools and techniques; an understanding of network threats and attacks such as eavesdropping, spoofing, protocol failures, DoS attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks; network defence including threat analysis and identification, architecture control, intrusion detection and layered security.The course features hands-on lectures and labs to analyse network vulnerabilities, and design and implement appropriate defensive techniques.
Requisite and Incompatibility
To enrol in this course, you must be enrolled in the Master of Computing (Advanced) and have completed COMP6800 or COMP2700 Incompatible with COMP3704
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
Explain network security issues
Articulate various threats and vulnerabilities of a network, and explain appropriate countermeasures
Perform simple penetration testing of a network and network services
Perform a threat analysis / vulnerability assessment of protocol designs and implementations
Design and implement appropriate defensive countermeasures against identified threats and vulnerabilities
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