Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Principles of networking protocols
- The importance of taking a multi-disciplinary approach to cyber security
- The Internet architecture and the layered TCP/IP networking model
- Issues surrounding privacy and anonymity
- Approaches to making systems and networks more robust to attack
- The cyber threat landscape, including actors
- Network services, design, operation and security
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Design and analyse simple networks and the protocols they use
- Explain the fundamental concepts underlying computer networks
- Critically analyse a cyber attack and identify effective countermeasures
- Assess network systems and technologies
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 5 |
Lecture | 36 |
Wider reading or practice | 60 |
Revision | 16 |
Follow-up work | 18 |
Specialist Laboratory | 10 |
Completion of assessment task | 5 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
D. Comer and D. Stevens (1993). Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume III: Client-Server Programming and Applications. Prentice Hall.
A Tanenbaum, D. J. Wetherall (2010). Computer Networks. Pearson.
LL Peterson and BS Davie (2008). Computer Networks, a Systems Approach. Morgan Laufman.
Graham, J., Howard, R. and Olson, R (2011). Cyber Security Essentials. CRC Press.
L. Parziale et al (2006). TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical Overview. IBM Redbooks.
Andress, J. (2013). Cyber Warfare: Techniques, Tactics and Tools for Security Practitioners. Syngress.
Clarke, R.A (2012). Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do about it. ECCO Press.
Hadnagy, C. (2011). Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking. Wiley.
Assessment
Assessment strategy
This module is assessed by a combination of coursework, assessed laboratories and a final assessment in the form of a computer aided examination.Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Laboratory Exercises | 20% |
Examination | 80% |