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Module details
CO892 Advanced Network Security (15 credits)
Syllabus
- Email security. Spam: why? ; spam 'click through' rates; targeted spam; spam filtering systems. Phishing attacks; blocking fake sites; browser based defences. Email based malware and defences against this.
- Intrusion detection and prevention systems; honey pots.
- Denial of service; distributed denial of service; bot-nets; methods to detect complex denial of service attacks and defences against them.
- Problems of eavesdropping; security in wireless networks.
- Use of router based firewalls as a method to protect intranets: de-militarized zones, bastion hosts; internal intranet firewalls; personal firewalls.
- Proxy based firewall systems: control over which parts of the Internet are accessible; black-lists and white-lists; key-word based filtering; time based controls.
Note
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