PROG-416 - Advanced Security Topics

3 credits

This course currently has two components: backbone design and a capstone project. The course will teach proper network design, showing students how to layout a network for both protection and efficiency. Students will critique existing designs and design networks. The outcome should be students who can analyze a network design for flaws regarding security and usability. The second component will require students to do a full security analysis on a company which includes evaluating and documenting existing designs, Suggesting a new design, documenting and implementing the new design, and testing their design for security flaws.

Prerequisite(s): PROG-350;