Goal: The aim of the subject is to familiarize students with basic network and cloud security issues, to give students a deeper insight into the different defense mechanisms and techniques.
Course description: The curriculum introduces network security basics: the devices, applications that comprise the network infrastructure, access management, authentication, authorization and accounting possibilities, router hardening, switch security issues, network Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), network Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Virtual Private Networks (VPN). During the lessons students also learn how to configure and maintain network devices with security measures and how to defend against known vulnerabilities. Finally, the students learn about cloud security models and the Openstack private cloud;it’s security solutions via Keystone and Neutron components.
Security of Computer Networks and Clouds