Course Instructor: Razvan Rughinis

Syllabus:

Securing Networks with Dedicated Equipment focuses on advanced security topics in networking, providing knowledge and skills required to plan, implement, and configure a secure, scalable, redundant and convergent network using dedicated firewalling systems and Unified Threat Management.

Course concepts are introduced and studied in depth using equipment from multiple producers, offering a comparative analysis of performance, facility in implementation and scalability, for each technology.

With a strong practical dimension, the laboratory consists in activities that implement concepts introduced through the theoretical course, following architectures and case studies selected from the configurations of networks deployed in real, enterprise settings. During the laboratory students will configure firewalls in transparent and routed modes, advanced IP services, virtual firewalls and security contexts, IPSec tunneling and site-tosite VPNs, SSL VPNs for distance access, redundancy at firewall access, and solutions for Unified Threat Management with antivirus, antispam, antispyware and data-theft prevention services.

When finalizing the course, students will benefit from an ample perspective on security levels available in current network architectures, and they will be able to design, implement, monitor and troubleshoot a security solution at enterprise level.

Course resources are available online at http://ocw.cs.pub.ro/courses/sred