Learning Activities
The methods of instruction for this course will include lectures, seminars, demonstrations, and hands-on assignments/projects.
Means of Assessment
Assessment will be in accordance with the Douglas College Evaluation Policy.
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Lab Assignments
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20-30%
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Quizzes
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15-20%
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Midterm Exam *
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25-30%
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Final Exam *
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25-30%
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TOTAL
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100%
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* Practical hands-on computer exam
In order to pass the course, students must, in addition to receiving an overall course grade of 50%, also achieve a grade of at least 50% on the combined weighted examination components (including quizzes, tests, exams).
Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.
Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course, the successful student will be able to:
- Describe major security issues on a network.
- Design a secure network configuration, including placement of network devices.
- Manipulate the configuration files related to the setup and initialization of networking components.
- Configure and test cross-platform networking applications.
- Monitor network traffic using tools such as tcpdump and other packet sniffers.
- Analyze network traffic to identify compromises in security.
- Write scripts to automate network modelling and analysis tasks.
Textbook Materials
Course Materials to be provided by the instructor and/or approved textbooks from the department.