Re: Open Curriculum for Network Security

[Kerry <kerry.milestone () gmail com>]

You may want to have a look at MIT's open courseware.

Perhaps this one for instance:


http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-computer-science/6-857-network-and-computer-security-fall-2003/


Course Description

6.857 is an upper-level undergraduate, first-year graduate course on
network and computer security. It fits within the department's
Computer Systems and Architecture Engineering concentration. Topics
covered include (but are not limited to) the following:

Techniques for achieving security in multi-user computer systems and
distributed computer systems;
Cryptography: secret-key, public-key, digital signatures;
Authentication and identification schemes;
Intrusion detection: viruses;
Formal models of computer security;
Secure operating systems;
Software protection;
Security of electronic mail and the World Wide Web;
Electronic commerce: payment protocols, electronic cash;
Firewalls; and
Risk assessment.
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