Security and reliability of network systems IS-FEE-10035

Acquiring knowledge of methods and techniques used to provide secure access, transmission and storage of information.
Fundamentals of cryptography. Conditions of providing data confidentiality and integrity. Symmetric and asymmetric cipher algorithms e.g. DES, RSA. Hash functions. Digital signatures. Idea of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Sources and types of security threats to network systems. Security threats to host and server applications. Security threats to web applications. Methods of protection against selected kinds of threats. Firewall systems, antivirus protection, intrusion detection systems (IDS), idea of honeypots. Methods of authentication and authorization in network systems. Conception of security politics. Examples of complex security politics. Security audit and penetration tests. Systems for data backuping and restoring. Array of disks (RAID). Network storage systems: Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Area Storage (NAS).

Requirements:
Students should have basic knowledge in the field of mathematics, electrical physics, circuit theory, digital and analog electronics, fundamentals of computer science. The general requirement is that student has studied engineering for at least 2 years. In some cases prerequisites are defined.