Welcome to SWEN2003 - Network Communication & Security (3 Credits). This course is intended for second year Software Engineering students. This course carries no pre-requisite courses shown below. This course requires some undesrtanding of mathematics concepts that are to cryptography and security.

Pre-requisite

• None

Syllabus

Networking & Communication:

• Background and history of network and the Internet
• Network architectures, Networks and protocols.
• Client/server and peer-to-peer paradigms.
• Network Communication , Mobile and wireless computing.
• Network standards and standardization bodies ,
• The ISO 7-layerreference model and its instantiation in TCP/IP.
• Overview of physical and data link layer concepts.
• Data link layer access control concepts
• Internetworking and routing
• Transport layer services
• Web protocols with particular emphasis on HTTP
• Distributed computing. Network Security

Fundamentals of cryptography :

• Secret-key algorithms
• Public-key algorithms
• Authentication protocols

Network Security:

• Network attack types
• Intrusion detection
• Firewalls
• Detection of malware
• Kerberos. IPSec. Virtual Private Networks.
• Network Address Translation.

Teaching (2024)

• Two (2) hours of lectures - Monday
• Two (2) hours of tutorial / labs - Tuesday

Method of Examination (2024):

• In-Course tests/assignments: 50%
• Examination: 50%

Office Hours

I am reachable by email or via Whatsapp. I will generally try to reply within 24 hours.

Lecture	Monday	1-3pm
Tutorial / Lab	Tuesday	10-12pm

Lectures are held every Wednesday via Zoom. Zoom link can be found in the sidebad

Date	Topic	Notes	Recording