Course

Network CyberSecurity

Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Department
Computing Studies & Information Systems
Course Code
CSIS 4470
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
15 Weeks
Max Class Size
35
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Seminar
Course Designation
None
Industry Designation
APICS
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
The objective of the course is to provide the students with the knowledge and practical experience in identifying and mitigating potential attacks on networks and networked devices.
Course Content
  1. Network Security
  2. NSM Test
  3. NSM Data
  4. NSM Drawbacks
  5. Collecting Network Traffic: Access, Storage and management
  6. NSM Platforms
  7. Security Onion
  8. Stand alone Server plus sensors
  9. SO Code
  10. Distributed Deployment
  11. SO Platform Housekeeping
  12. Command line Analyzing Tools: Tcpdump, Dumpcap, tshark and Argus
  13. Graphical Packet Analyzer: Wireshark, Xplico and NetworkMiner
  14. NSM Consoles: Squil, Squert, Snorby and ELSA
  15. Server-side Compromise
  16. Client-side Compromise
  17. Extending SO
  18. Proxies and Checksums
Learning Activities

The methods of instruction for this course will include lectures, seminars, demonstrations, and hands-on assignments/projects.

Means of Assessment

Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy.

Lab Assignments

20-30%

Quizzes

15-20%

Midterm Exam *

25-30%

Final Exam *

25-30%

TOTAL

100%

* Practical hands-on computer exam 

In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).

Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.

 

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to: 

  1. Describe major security issues on a network.
  2. Design a secure network configuration, including placement of network devices.
  3. Manipulate the configuration files related to the setup and initialization of networking components.
  4. Configure and test cross-platform networking applications.
  5. Monitor network traffic using tools such as tcpdump and other packet sniffers.
  6. Analyze network traffic to identify compromises in security.
  7. Write scripts to automate network modelling and analysis tasks.
Textbook Materials

Course Materials to be provided by the instructor and/or approved textbooks from the department.

Requisites

Prerequisites

Minimum grade of C in CSIS 3560

 

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

No equivalent courses.

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer Details for CSIS 4470
Alexander College (ALEX) ALEX CPSC 2XX (3)
Athabasca University (AU) No credit
Coast Mountain College (CMTN) CMTN CPSC 1XX (3)
College of New Caledonia (CNC) CNC CSC 2XX (3)
Emily Carr University of Art & Design (EC) No credit
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) No credit
Northern Lights College (NLC) NLC ITEC 2XX (3)
Okanagan College (OC) No credit
Simon Fraser University (SFU) No credit
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) TRU COMP 3XXX (3)
University Canada West (UCW) UCW CPSC 3XX (3)
University of Northern BC (UNBC) UNBC CPSC 3XX (3)
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) UFV COMP 4XX (3)

Course Offerings

Summer 2024