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Paper Title: TCP/IP and Network Security Paper Code: MSCS-22

This document outlines the topics and structure of a course on TCP/IP and network security. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics such as the working of core TCP/IP protocols like DNS, HTTP, and FTP, security issues and solutions at different layers of the TCP/IP stack including the application, network, and link layers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and security models. The course is worth 3 credits and includes 40 hours of teaching divided among the various units along with assignments and a final exam. Recommended textbooks on computer networks and TCP/IP protocols are also listed.

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Paper Title: TCP/IP and Network Security Paper Code: MSCS-22

This document outlines the topics and structure of a course on TCP/IP and network security. The course is divided into 5 units covering topics such as the working of core TCP/IP protocols like DNS, HTTP, and FTP, security issues and solutions at different layers of the TCP/IP stack including the application, network, and link layers, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and security models. The course is worth 3 credits and includes 40 hours of teaching divided among the various units along with assignments and a final exam. Recommended textbooks on computer networks and TCP/IP protocols are also listed.

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Paper Title: TCP/IP and Network Security


Paper Code: MSCS-22
Course credits: 3 Continuous Evaluation: 30 Marks
Course duration: 40 Hours Max. Marks:100 Semester End Examination: 70 Marks
Unit Topics Teaching
Hours
I
TCP/IP: Working of DNS, HTTP, FTP and SMTP/POP. Configuration of DNS, Web, FTP
and MailServer. Working of TCP, UDP, IP , ARP,ICMP.
Security at Application Layer: PGP and S/MIMIE, E-mail security, PEM, Secure binding
of multimedia streams
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II
Security Problem in TCP/IP Protocol Suite: Identification of Security issues in ethernet,
ARP, IP, TCP, Application and Routing protocols. Secure network infrastructure services:
DNS, NTP, SNMP, SSL Architecture, SSL/TLS Basic Protocol, SSL Message Formats,
Session Resumption.
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III
Security at Network Layer: Routing algorithm vulnerabilities: route and sequence number
spoofing, instability and resonance effects.
Information hiding: DMZ networks, route aggregation and segregation ICMP redirect
hazard: denial of service. ARP hazard: phantom sources, ARP explosions and slow links.
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IV
Firewalls: Network partitioning, firewall platforms, partitioning models and methods.
Secure SNMP, Secure routing interoperability: virtual networks (DARTnet/CAIRN).
Transparent and opaque network services. Source masking and hidden channels. IDS,
Honeypots, Honey nets
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V
Security Models: Military and civil security, vulnerability and threat models, End-end
security (COMSEC), link encryption (TRANSEC), compartments Privacy. Authentication.
Denial of service. Nonrepudiation. Issues in multi-level secure systems. Internet security
models: IPv4/IPv6 encapsulation header
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Books recommended:
1. S. Tannenbaum.Computer Networks, 2nd Edition, Prentice-Hall, 1988.
2. D. E. Comer. Internetworking with TCP-IP: Principles, Protocols and Architecture, Vol I, 2nd Edition,
Prentice Hall, 1991.
3. Tananbaum A.S., Computer Networks, PHI.
4. Stalling W, Data & Computer Communications, PHI
5. B. Forouzan, "Data Communication and Networking", Tata McGraw Hill
6. Michael A. Miller, Data & Network Communication, Vikas Publication
7. TCP/IP Protocol Suite (McGraw-Hill Forouzan Networking) by Behrouz Forouzan

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