CIS 610: Advanced Research Topics in Network Security

Instructor: Prof. Jun Li

Course syllabus is here.

Reading Assignments

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Course Info

Description

Computer networks, such as the Internet, enables different entities to exchange vast quantities of information and share remote resources. Unfortunately, networking also poses a danger by exposing individuals to various forms of network-based attacks, raising ever-growing concerns as computer networks become more common and more relied upon. This course is designed for students to learn the state -of-art research being explored nowadays and also solve some research problems they are interested. Topics covered include graph-based attack detection, IP prefix hijacking detection, worm defense, DDoS attack detection and suppression, DNS security, botnet identification and characterization, web 2.0 security, etc.
Last updated: 4/24/2009