ELEC 567

Advanced Network Security and Forensics

Units: 1.5

Presents, from a practical perspective, underlying principles and techniques of network security and forensics. Emphasis will be on ethical hacking, by surveying attack techniques and tools with examples of how they are applied in practice. The fundamentals of network forensics and cyber-crime scene analysis and investigations will be introduced. Students will also learn how to evaluate network and Internet security issues and design, and how to implement successful security policies and defense mechanisms and strategies, with a particular focus on firewalls, intrusion detection and response, traceback, and biometrics technologies.

Graduate course in the Electrical Engineering program administered by the Faculty of Graduate Studies.