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Course No.: CS 691 Instructor: C. Edward Chow Class Time: MW 5:50-7:05 pm Office Address: ENS 186 Class Room: EN 105 Office Hour: MW: 1:30-2pm 3:30-4:30pm,T: 9-10am Office Phone: 262-3110 Email / IM: chow@cs.uccs.edu / MS Messenger

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Course Objective:

Advanced topics in network and system security, including firewall design, network intrusion detection, tracking, and prevention, virus detection, programming language and OS support for security, and wireless network security.

• Overview of Computer and Network Security, Crytography, Security System Design Principles
• AFA workshop presentation on UCCS research. Secure Collective Network Defense. Intruson Tolerance with Multipath Alternative Routing.
• Electronic Voting (Confidentiality, Integrity, and Privacy Issues)
• Secure Information Sharing.
• Enterprise Autonomous Anit-DDoS
• Integrating Encryption Functions among network Layers. Asymetric IPSec for Online Backup.
• SubVirt: Implementing malware with virtual machines
• OS Hardening and Security Feature Comparison.
• Seucrity in Wireless Networks: WEP, 802.1x, PEAP, TTLS.
• Security in Sensor Network, Bluetooth, and RFID (Encryption for devices with low power/computation capability)
• Security in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks.

midterm(20%), final exam(20%), homework(30%), network/protocol research project(30%)

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CS691 S2005 Class Photo Album and Web Pages

CS691 S2003 Class Photo Album and Web Pages

Please create a personal web page at http://cs.uccs.edu/~<login> with your personal photo, basic vita,  your interests in this class,  and potential semester projects that you may work on.  This will allow classmates to find common interests and know each other. See http://cs.uccs.edu/~cs301/graphics/scanning.htm for scanning your personal photo.  You can also use my personal web page as a template. If you do not know how to setup your personal web page, drop by my office.  I will help you.  This is part of your hw#1.
Make sure you use <login>.jpg for your photo image file.  Check on a browser and see if you can access your web page.  If you got "forbidden" msg, it means that you need to open the access rights of your home directory and public_html directory.  Use "chmod 755 ../<login>" and "chmod 755 public_html" commands for changing the access rights.

CS691 mailist:  We established a network alias cs691-l@uccs.edu that can be considered as group mailing address or a distribution list.  You can email to the whole class using this email address.  Make sure  "CS": is upper case when you type the address. When cs.uccs.edu receives an email for this address, it looks up a file with the list of your email addresses, in the format of <login>@cs.uccs.edu, and send each of you a copy.  To forward the email to your own server,  you need to

• either set up a .forward file which contains the email address with your default mail server,  or
• configure your mail program or your default mail server to read mails from POP (post office protocol) server of cs.uccs.edu.

Text: NO text book.

 

Other useful references:

• Computer Security: Art and Science, by Matt Bishop, Addison-Wesley, 2003, ISBN 0-201-44099-7.
• "Computer Networks," by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 4th Edition, Prentice Hall, 2003. Chapter 8 covers Network Security. Very concise and interesting reading with many humorous stories.
• "Cryptography and Network Security: Principle and Practice," 3rd Edition, William Stalling, Prentice Hall.
• "Security Engineering - a Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems, " by Ross J. Anderson, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0471389226, 2001. His web site contains a lot of security related research papers.
• "Inside Network Perimeter Security: The Definitive Guide to Firewalls, VPNs, Routers, and Intrusion Detection Systems, " by Stephen Northcut, et al, New Riders, 2003.
• "Intrusion Signatures and Analysis," by Stephen Northcut et al, New Riders, 2001.
• "Incident Response: A Strategic Guide to Handling System and Network Security Breaches," by E. Eugenue Schultz and Russel Shumway, New Riders, 2002.
• "Java Security Solutions," by Rich Helton, Johennie Helton, John Wiley & Sons; ISBN: 0764549286; 1 edition (May 1, 2002).
• "Network Security with OpenSSL," John Viega, Matt Messier & Pravir Chandra, Oreilly, 2002.
• ".NET Framework Security," by Brian A. LaMacchia, et al, Addison Wesley, 2002.
• "Linux Routers: A Primer for Network Administrators, by Tony Mancill, Prentice Hall PTR, 2001.
• "Securing & Optimizing Linux: The Hacking Solution," by Gerhard Mourani, Gerhard Mourani, and Open Network Architecture Inc. 2002.
• "Hacker Beware," by Eric Cole, New Riders Publishing; ISBN: 0735710090; 1st edition (August 13, 2001).
• Web Hacking: Attacks and Defense," by Stuart McClure, et al, Addison Wesley, 2003.
• "Hack I.T.: Security through Penetratiion Testing," by .T.J. Kelvinsky et al, Addison Wesley, 2003.
  

H: Online material

Related Web Pages:

• Internet Security Glossary by Robert W. Shirey, RFC2818.
• Virus information.
• Cybersecurity Research and Development agenda report by the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P), http://www.thei3p.org/documents/2003_Cyber_Security_RD_Agenda.pd
• Trusted Computer Systems,