Organization

Course Overview

This course covers aspects and principles of network security. Based on many attacks on common technologies used in communication systems, this course illustrates how things can go wrong and provides basic measures to protect a network from mistakes commited in the past. It covers furthermore the fundamental concepts of security and security problems.

Areas covered in this lecture:

• Physical and Link Layer Security
• Network Layer Security
• Transport Layer Security
• Application Layer Security

Please note that it is strongly recommended to attend communication systems first since it provides the background knowledge presumed in this lecture.

Exam

The results of the exam are available here. The post-exam review will take place on Friday,, 22nd of August at 3pm in 36-438.

The second writte exam will take place on the 11th of August 2014 at 9:30am in 11-207.

Due to the unexpectedly high number of attendees, we are not able to offer oral exams this year. The written exam for this lecture will take place on the 21th of March 2014 at 8:30am in 42-115.

You are allowed to use a monolingual dictionary (such as the Oxford English Dictionary) during the exam. No further materials are permitted.

Exam-style sample questions and answers can be found here: sample_questions.pdf. They are intended to illustrate the different types of questions which could occur in the exam. Note that the points of each question correlate with the requested depth of the answer.

The final results of the exam are available here. The post-exam review took place on Friday, 4th of April at 3pm in 36-438.

Slides

The slides are accessible only from within the university network (131.246.*). Please use SSH or VPN for remote access.