Overview

This unit of study aims to introduce you to the issues of security in modern networks.

Requisites

Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Appreciate and analyse the threats to network security and their defences (K3)
  • Design an organisational security policy (S1, S2, A2)
  • Plan the implementation of a security policy using technologies such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion Detection Systems, and authentication systems (S1, S2, A2)
  • Conduct encryption of simple messages using public key and secret key techniques (K3)
  • Plan techniques used in dealing with Denial of Service Attacks (K3)
  • Appreciate the operation of the major security protocols (K3)
  • Address the security issues relating to wireless technologies (K3)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Lecture
3.00 12 weeks 36
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Tutorial
1.00 12 weeks 12
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Computer Laboratory
1.00 12 weeks 12
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning
7.50 12 weeks 90
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Case StudiesGroup 20% 1,2,3 
ExaminationIndividual 50% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
Laboratory ReportIndividual 20% 1,3,4,6 
Mid-Semester TestIndividual 10% 1,2,3,5 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

(i) an aggregate mark of 50% or more, and(ii) at least 40% in the final exam.Students who do not successfully achieve hurdle requirement (ii) will receive a maximum of 45% as the total mark for the unit.

Content

  • Threats to network security
  • Security policy
  • Firewalls
  • Cryptography
  • Virtual Private Networks
  • Intrusion Detection Systems
  • Authentication Systems
  • Wireless Security

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.