Online IST 451 : Network Security

Welcome to the Fact Sheet for Online IST 451, Network Security.

The objective of the course is to provide the students with a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental issues and concepts of network security, and the mainstream network security technologies and protocols that are widely used in the real world. Course goals include to understand the fundamental concepts and issues of network security, the mainstream network security technologies and protocols, how realy world networks are attacked, how to defend against a set of widely known network attacks.

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