| 26th September 2011 |
Week 2 Introduction
- Critical Angle, TIR, Frequencies
Martindale
Resources
|
| 3rd October
2011 |
Week 3
Types
of light in use for Fibre Optic communication
Long
Haul Optical Networks
|
| 10th October
2011 |
Week 4
Fibre
Types and attenuation Fibre
Tutorial Costing
networks Ppt
on
costing Wired
network
maths
|
| 17th October
2011 |
Week 5
DWDM and
practical FO networks Tapping
Fibre Optic Cable
EC
Fibre Recommendations |
| 24th October
2011 |
Week 6
Virtual
Week |
| 31st October
2011 |
Week 7
Client Server
Basics | ttcp lab |
| 7th November
2011 |
Week 8
Examining
TCP | Wireshark lab |
| 14th November
2011 |
Week 9
Examining
DHCP | DHCP lab
|
21st November
2011
|
Week 10 SNMP Submit Assignment 1
|
| 28th November
2011 |
Week 11 Examining
DNS
|
| 5th December
2011 |
Week 12
Today will be practical work only. The OS for this lab
will be Server 2008
Server
2008
Setup |
12th December
2011
|
Week 13
TTCP
lab work Submit Lab Work 1 1/2
way Course Feedback |
|
XMAS BREAK |
| 9th January 2012 |
Week 14 Phase test will concentrate on the
material introduced the previous term.
Exam will take place in the Cisco lab 14:30 sharp.
This will be 40 questions multiple choice. |
| 16th January 2012 |
Week 15 Introduction
to
and principles of security.
Security/
insecurity
statistics,
Human/
personal
issues,
Security
requirements
and
threats,
Physical & logical access issues, OS Issues,
Review of IP and TCP, E-business challenges and
technologies
|
| 23rd January 2012 |
Week 16 Legal
issues, UK Data Protection Act 1998, Computer
Misuse Act 1990,
EU Data Retention laws, contracts and
non-repudiation. Ethical hacking.
|
| 30th January 2012 |
Week 17 Threat
vectors, Client vulnerabilities – web &
email,
Server vulnerabilities – daemons DOD, passwords,
Network vulnerabilities – DNS spoofing, wire/
wireless sniffing,
General vulnerabilities – Trojans, backdoors
|
6th February 2012
|
Week 18 Introduction
to cryptography, Public vs. private key,
Message digests and digital signatures, Digital
certificates, authentication
|
| 13th February 2012 |
Week 19
Virtual
Week Working from Home |
| 20th February 2012 |
Week 20 Firewalls,
stateless and stateful, Packet filtering routers,
Application proxies, NAT/ PAT, Firewall
architectures |
| 27th February 2012 |
Week 21 Presentations
|
| 5th March 2012 |
Week 22 Wireless
Security, Security Challenges in Wireless
Networks
WEP, IEEE 802.11i and WPA, WPA2 |
| 12th March 2012 |
Week 23 Virus
protection: detection: signatures, heuristics.
Antivirus products and their management |
| 19th March 2012 |
Week 24 Risk
analysis of networks, data, personnel and
documentation.
Policies for business security. Data erasure |
| 26th March 2012 |
Week 25 Business
continuity, critical business units. Planned
and unplanned disruption.
Disaster recovery. Principles and application.
Writing a business continuity plan Submit Lab Work 2
|
|
EASTER BREAK |
| 23rd April 2012 |
Week 26 Revision |
| 30th April 2012 |
Week 27
Also, revision and
Course
Evaluation |
7th May 2012
|
Week 28 No lecture - Bank
Holiday |
Examination Period
14th May to 1st June
Date TBA May 2012 |
Open Book Practical Exam
09:00 to 12:00 in Cisco Lab
You can bring your own notes to the exam but no
printed matter Date TBA May 2012 |