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.