Information Security
Information Security
1 INFORMATION SECURITY
UNIT I: Introduction: Security Attacks (Interruption, Interception, Modification and Fabrication), Security Services (Confidentiality, Authentication, Integrity, Non-repudiation, access Control and Availability) and Mechanisms, A model for Internetwork security, Internet Standards and RFCs, Buffer overflow & format string vulnerabilities, TCP session hijacking, ARP attacks, route table modification, UDP hijacking, and man-in-the-middle attacks. UNIT II: Conventional Encryption: Conventional Encryption Principles, Conventional encryption algorithms, cipher block modes of operation, location of encryption devices, key distribution Approaches of Message Authentication, Secure Hash Functions and HMAC, UNIT III: Public Key Cryptography: Public key cryptography principles, public key cryptography algorithms, digital signatures, digital Certificates, Certificate Authority and key management Kerberos, X.509 Directory Authentication Service UNIT IV: Email privacy: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and S/MIME. UNIT V: IP Security: IP Security Overview, IP Security Architecture, Authentication Header, Encapsulating Security Payload, Combining Security Associations and Key Management
UNIT VI: Web Security: Web Security Requirements, Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), Secure Electronic Transaction (SET) UNIT VII: SNMP: Basic concepts of SNMP, SNMPv1 Community facility and SNMPv3, Intruders, Viruses and related threats UNIT VIII: Firewalls: Firewall Design principles, Trusted Systems, Intrusion Detection Systems
TEXT BOOKS: 1. Network Security Essentials (Applications and Standards) by William Stallings Pearson Education. 2. Hack Proofing your network by Ryan Russell, Dan Kaminsky, Rain Forest Puppy, Joe Grand, David Ahmad, Hal Flynn Ido Dubrawsky, Steve W.Manzuik and Ryan Permeh, wiley Dreamtech, REFERENCE BOOKS: 1. Fundamentals of Network Security by Eric Maiwald (Dreamtech press) 2. Network Security - Private Communication in a Public World by Charlie Kaufman, Radia Perlman and Mike Speciner, Pearson/PHI. 3. Principles of Information Security, Whitman, Thomson. 4. Cryptography and network Security, Third edition, Stallings, PHI/Pearson 5. Network Security: The complete reference, Robert Bragg, Mark Rhodes, TMH 6. Introduction to Cryptography, Buchmann, Springer.