Week 2 Laboratory Activity – Network Security

Laboratory #2: Awareness of the Availability of Security Solutions to Secure Computer Networks

Goal: To make students aware of the availability of an array of solutions to secure computer networks

Nature: Exploratory

Duration: 1 Week

Deliverables: 5 double spaced page

Research and study the available software and hardware techniques to deter, if not eliminate, computer systems attacks. Write a comparative discussion paper on five (5) such techniques.

Pay attention to the following:

• Encryption techniques (DNSSEC, IPSec, PGP, S/MIME)
• Techniques for fault detection, isolation and repair
• Intrusion Detection and Network Forensics
• Firewalls (DMZ)
• Secure network infrastructure services: DNS, NTP, SNMP