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E (COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING)

Outcome Based Education (OBE) and Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)

SEMESTER – VIII

INFORMATION AND NETWORK SECU RITY

Course Code UCS005E CIE Marks 50
Teaching Hours/Week (L:T:P) 40 Teaching (3:0:0) SEE Marks 100
Credits 03 Hours 40
Course Objectives:
 To obtain a thorough knowledge of Information and Network Security.
 To have knowledge on Security Technology, IP and Web Security.
 To know the about authentication and architecture of Security
 To know about maintenance of information security and network security
management.

Unit -1 (10 hours)

Information Security: Introduction, what is security? Critical Characteristics of
Information; N S T I S S C Security Model; Approaches to Information Security
Implementation, The Security System Development Life Cycle: Security Professionals
and Organization, Information Security: Is it an Art or a Science.

Planning for Security: Introduction; Information Security Policy, Standards and

Practices: The Information Security Blueprint.
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Level L1: Remembering, L2: Understanding
UNIT- II (10 hours)
Introduction to Network Security: The OSI Security Architecture: Attacks, Services,
and Mechanisms; Security Attacks; Securi ty Services; A model for Network Security.

Security Technology 1: Firewalls and VPNs: Introduction, Physical design, Firewalls:

Processing Modes of Firewalls, Firewall Architectures, Protecting Remote Connections:
Remote Access, RADIUS, TACACS and Diameter, Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).

Security Technology 2: Intrusion Detection, Access control and Other Security

Tools: Introduction, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS); Honey Pots. Honey Nets, and
Padded Cell systems; Scanning and Analysis Tools; Access Control Devices.
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Level L1: Remembering, L2: Understanding, L3: Applying, L4:
Analyzing
UNIT- III (10 hours)
Authentication: Authentication Applications Kerberos, X.509 Directory Au thentication
Service Electronic Mail Security: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), S/MIME.

IP Security: Overview, IP Security Architecture, Authentication Header, Encapsulating

Security Payload, Combining Security Associations, Key Management.
Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Level L1: Remembering, L2: Understanding, L3: Applying, L4:
Analyzing
UNIT- IV (10 hours)
Web Security: Web Security Requirements, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport
Layer Security (TLS), Secure Electronic Transaction (SET).
Information Security Maintenance: Introduction; Security Management Models; The
Maintenance Model, Digital Forensics.

Network Management Security: Basics Concepts of SNMP, SNMPv1 community

facility, SNMPv3.

Revised Bloom’s Taxonomy Level L1: Remembering, L2: Understanding, L3: Applying
Course outcomes:
At the end of the course, the students will be able to
1. Understand the definition of network security, attacks, services, mechanisms.
2. Describe model of security architecture, security technology, firewalls and VPNs.
3. Analyze IP security and Web Security.
4. Evaluate the information security maintenance and networks security management.

Sl Name of the Edition and

Title of the Book Name of the Author/s
No Publisher Year
Textbooks
1 Principles and Practices Michael E. Whiteman Cengage Learning 4th Edition,
of Information Security and Herbert J. Mattord India Private 2016
Limited
Reference Books
1 Cryptography and William Stallings Pearson Education 7th Edition,
Network Security Limited 2017 2017
1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQ3ESFfvchg&list=PLUtfVcb-
iqn834VGI9faVXGIGSDXZMGp8, (NPTEL course, IIT Madras, Prof. V. Kamakoti
and Prof. Dileep Ayer)
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=eIJzIUhks6E&list=PLgMDNELGJ1CbdGLyn7OrVAP-IKg-0q2U2&index=2,
(Swayam, NPTEL, Dr. Ashish Choudary, IIS)