Course Instructor: Ion Bica

Syllabus:

The course “Auditing Network Security” promotes knowledge of main concepts regarding the design of an audit for information system, starting from technical principles and current technologies, and then including considerations concerning ethical issues and legal concerns of implementation.

Students will learn about the relevance of audit activities for present-day activities, current trends in this field, and specific methods for information gathering. The course involves students in practical activities, aiming for the development of dedicated knowledge and skills for solving typical problems in network auditing, for each stage. Students will learn to identify relevant vulnerabilities and security risks, to test for their presence, to evaluate their seriousness, and to elaborate a report.

Practivities are designed to encourage students to develop their own action plan, with a high degree of autonomy, and to search for relevant, updated information.

After completing the course, students will acquire the capacity to diagnose functioning problems in complex networks, especially security problems, and to propose alternative solutions, taking into account financial, time, and human resource constraints.

Students will also develop their knowledge and skills concerning the provision and evaluation of information security, their capacity to find relevant information for current problems, to communicate directly, to elaborate technical documents and to put to practical use information from scientific research concerning complex network security