General Information

Course Duration
4 hours

Audience
A wide range of information technology (IT) professionals and business managers, including departmental managers, webmasters, IT managers, intranet/extranet/Internet consultants and system integrators

Prerequisites
The courses Internet Security: An Overview, Internet Security: Cryptography, Internet Security: Public Key Infrastructure, while not essential, would be useful

Topics Covered

• Symmetric key encryption
• Public key encryption
• Application of public key encryption

• Digital certificates
• Digital signatures
• Public key infrastructures

• Security protocols
• Application and messaging security
• Virtual Private Networks

Course Aim

To provide an overview of the various security techniques used for e-commerce

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the student should be able to

• outline symmetric and public key cryptographic techniques
  
  
• describe the principles of symmetric cryptography
  
  
• describe how message digests work
  
  
• explain the application of public key algorithms
  
  
• outline the use of digital signatures and certificates
  
  
• describe the certificate life cycle
  
  
• define system and network security
  
  
• describe the different types of Internet security
  
  
• list the principal protocols used in Internet security and describe how they work
  
  
• discuss application security measures
  
  
• describe the various messaging security techniques
  
  
• define a Virtual Private Network and explain its features, its components, and how it is deployed