Applied network security

Module title:

Applied network security

Module overview:

This module address the knowledge and understanding of security technologies built into the firewalls of the new generation and modern Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems.
This module enables students to learn how to analyse a company's real needs, as well as on the selection of appropriate technologies, which will make it possible to design an appropriate security solution. This solution will have to be justified and substantiated regarding the extent to which it addresses the user's needs in the context of security based on the firewalls of the new generation and SIEM.

Students will learn:
• How to design solution for advance network protection
• How to work with Next Generation Firewalls
• How to work with Security Information and Event Management systems

As an Cyber security specialist students need to know purposes of security systems and how to design and use products related to Network security.

Literature:

Essential reading:
1. Sanders, C. Smith, J. (2014). Applied Network Security Monitoring: Collection, Detection, and Analysis, Rockland: Syngress
2. [Anon.] (2020), FortiGate / FortiOS | Fortinet Documentation Library. Available at: https://docs.fortinet.com/product/fortigate/7.0 (Accessed: 30 April 2021).
3. [Anon.] (2020), IBM QRadar SIEM V7.3.3 documentation - IBM Documentation. Available at: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/qsip/7.3.3?topic=SS42VS_7.3.3/com.ibm.qradar.doc/c_qradar_pdfs.html (Accessed: 30 April 2021).