Internet Security Certificate
Hours: 240
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course aims to provide an overview of the various cryptographic techniques used for internetworking applications. A wide range of information technology (IT) professionals and business managers, including IT managers, webmasters, system integrators, Internet/intranet/extranet consultants, departmental managers, and strategic IT planners would especially benefit from taking this course.
PRE-REQUISITES
Familiarity with the concept of the Internet and e-business.
COURSE OUTLINE
Security and the Internet
- Security concepts
- Information security fundamentals
- Computing securely
- Security management
Security threats
- Denial of service
- Threats to data
- Specific Internet threats
Secure computing
- Securing the client
- Securing the application
- The 4A strategy
- Exercise: Selecting countermeasures
Secure networking
- Securing the network
- Securing the web platform
- Secure communications
- Exercise: Identifying Internet components
Symmetric cryptography
- Cryptography's origins
- Symmetric key algorithms
- Block ciphers
- Stream ciphers
- Exercise: Triple DES
Public key algorithms
- Asymmetric technology
- RSA algorithms
- Exercise: Performing public key encryption
Public key techniques
- Digital signatures
- Message digests
- Exercise: Using digital signatures
Key management
- Diffie-Hellman key management
- Fundamentals of key management
Cryptanalysis techniques
- Attacks on algorithms I
- Attacks on algorithms II
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| Objectives |
- Discuss symmetric cryptographic technologies.
- Discuss public key cryptographic techniques.
- Describe how public key algorithms are used.
- Discuss key management.
- Describe the various threats to cryptographic algorithms.
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