F20AN - Advanced Network Security

Course leader(s):

• Timothy Tzen Vun Yap (Edinburgh, January)
• Muhammad Marwan Muhammad Fuad (Edinburgh, January)
• Christos Chrysoulas (Edinburgh, January)
• Abrar Ullah (Dubai, January)
• Ahmad Ryad Soobhany (Malaysia, January)
• Timothy Tzen Vun Yap (Malaysia, January)

Syllabus

1. Internet Security: review of some TCP/IP stack Protocols and their known vulnerabilities. (1.1 Address Resolution Protocol, 1.2 Internet Protocol, 1.3 Internet Control Message Protocol, 1.4 User Datagram Protocol, 1.5 Transmission Control Protocol)

2. Wireless (Wi-Fi) Security (2.1 Wired Equivalent Privacy WEP, 2.2 Wireless Protected Access WPA and IEEE802.11i)

3. Penetration testing and the penetration testing process. (3.1 Reconnaissance, 3.2 Scanning, 3.3 Gaining access, 3.4 Maintaining access, 3.5 Covering tracks)

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course, students should be able to do the following:

• identify vulnerabilities in common TCP/IP protocols.
• critically assess the security of common ethical hacking targets, such as networked hosts.
• appraise the security of wireless systems, such as WEP and WPA.
• identify vulnerable components in the target system by drawing on the output of a collection of recon tools.
• combine different hacking tools to devise an attack scenario specific to their target.

Further details

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SCQF Level: 10

Credits: 15