Network Security Essentials Course

01 Preface 7 topics +

• What’s New in the Sixth Edition
• Objectives
• Support of ACM/IEEE Computer Science Curricula 2013
• Plan of the Text
• Projects and other Student Exercises
• Relationship to Cryptography and Network Security
• Acknowledgments

02 Introduction 10 topics +

• Computer Security Concepts
• The OSI Security Architecture
• Security Attacks
• Security Services
• Security Mechanisms
• Fundamental Security Design Principles
• Attack Surfaces and Attack Trees
• A Model for Network Security
• Standards
• Review Questions, and Problems

03 Symmetric Encryption and Message Confidentiality 6 topics +

• Symmetric Encryption Principles
• Symmetric Block Encryption Algorithms
• Random and Pseudorandom Numbers
• Stream Ciphers and RC4
• Cipher Block Modes of Operation
• Review Questions, and Problems

04 Public-Key Cryptography and Message Authentication 7 topics +

• Approaches to Message Authentication
• Secure Hash Functions
• Message Authentication Codes
• Public-Key Cryptography Principles
• Public-Key Cryptography Algorithms
• Digital Signatures
• Review Questions, and Problems

05 Key Distribution and User Authentication 8 topics +

• Remote User Authentication Principles
• Symmetric Key Distribution Using Symmetric Encryption
• Kerberos
• Key Distribution Using Asymmetric Encryption
• X.509 Certificates
• Public-Key Infrastructure
• Federated Identity Management
• Review Questions, and Problems