PA 197 Secure Network Design
Overview of the course
Zdeněk Říha & Eva Hladká & Luděk Matyska &
Petr Švenda & Marek Kumpošt
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PA 197 Secure Network Design
• New course
– Being introduced in the school year 2015/2016
• Secure Network Design
– Methods and technologies that are at the base of secure
network design.
• 2/2/2
– Lecture: 2 hours weekly
– Seminar: 2 hours weekly (3 seminar groups)
– Assignments: 4+ hours weekly
– Project: 16+ hours (cyber game)
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Aims of the subject
• To provide information about secure network
architectures their implementations and operations
• Foundations on secured deployment of sensor
networks
• Hands-on experience
• Potential to use the knowledge in an extensive
cyber game
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Organization
• Lectures + seminars + assignments + project + exam
• Assignments
– Assigned regularly (nearly) every week
– individual work of each student
– expected workload: 4+ hours/week/participant
– Network lab available to students
• Project
• Exam
– Written exam, mostly open questions
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Project options
• Czech students will have an option to choose
between a practical project or theoretical&practical
mix
– like “IPv6—Penetration test”
• We suggest: real Capture the Flag (12 hours of a
cyber game) and report of results– optional for
Czech, mandatory for Indian students
Project organization
• groups of several (usually three) students
• project defence / report
• expected workload: 16 hours/project/participant
Grading
• Credits
– 2+2+2 credits, plus 2 for the final exams
• Points
– Homework (30) – min 15
– Project (30) – min 15
– Written exam (90)
• Grading
– A ≥ 90% of maximum number of points
– B ≥ 80% of maximum number of points
– C ≥ 70% of maximum number of points
– D ≥ 60% of maximum number of points
– E ≥ 50% of maximum number of points
– F < 50% of maximum number of points
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Attendance
• Lectures
– Attendance not obligatory, but highly recommended
– Not recorded (small lecture room without video facilities)
• Seminars
– Attendance obligatory
– Absences must be excused at the department of study affairs
– 2 absences are ok
• Assignments and projects
– Done during students free time (e.g. at the dormitory)
– Access to network lab and CRoCS lab is possible
• Some assignments indeed require access to the network lab
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Course resources
• Lectures (PDF) available in IS
– IS = Information System of the Masaryk University
• Assignments (what to do) available in IS
– Submissions done also via IS
• Additional tutorials/papers/materials from time to
time will also be provided in IS
– To better understand the issues discussed
• Recommended literatures
– To learn more …
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Pre-enrollment reading
• Web pages of the EU co-funded project
ResumeNet, especially the objectives and general
deliverables (e.g. D1.1, D2.1b, D3.3) and also their
lecture material.
http://www.resumenet.eu
• Symantec's Internet security threat report volume
20-2015
https://www4.symantec.com/mktginfo/whitepaper/ISTR/21347932_GA-internet-security-
threat-report-volume-20-2015-social_v2.pdf
• Web pages on RINA
http://csr.bu.edu/rina/index.html
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Recommended literature
• Craig Hunt. TCP/IP Network Administration.
O'Reilly Media. Third Edition. 2002.
ISBN-10: 059600297.
• Lee Allen. Advanced Penetration Testing for
Highly-Secured Environments: The Ultimate
Security Guide. ISBN-10:1849517746.
• Holger Karl. Andreas Willig. Protocols and
Architectures for Wireless Sensor Network.
Wiley-Interscience. 2007. ISBN-10:
0470519231.
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Plagiarism
• Homeworks
– Must be worked out independently by each student
• Projects
– Must be worked out by a team of 3 students
– Every team member must show his/her contribution
• Plagiarism, cut&paste, etc. is not tolerated
– Plagiarism is use of somebody else words/programs or ideas
without proper citation
– IS helps to recognize plagiarism
– If plagiarism is detected student is assigned -5 points
– In more serious cases the Disciplinary committee of the faculty
will decide
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