CS 286 Enterprise Network Security
This course gives the students a real world understanding of enterprise network security systems and how these technologies can be used to enhance the protection of internal networks. It gives hands-on experience installing, configuring and managing advanced security systems. The course will utilize commercial firewalls, VPNs, cloud security solutions, security configuration guidance tools, and other tools to implement and monitor the effectiveness of the security solutions. Students will explore proven strategies for defending networks against unauthorized access, denial-of-service, the weaknesses of legacy firewall architecture, security processes, address translation, content filtering, spoofing, and other advanced issues. This course has a hands-on focus.