System and Network Security
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System and Network Security Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for System and Network Security (subject code 3173211) as prescribed for ICT · Semester 7 divides the course into 7 units, covering 37 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3173211)Unit 1 Network Fundamentals
- Network Software: Protocol Hierarchies
- Design Issues in layers
- Services Primitive
- Critique of the OSI and TCP, Birth and Growth of the Internet
- Common networks: X.25, ATM, Ethernet
Unit 2 Introduction to Security issues
- Security trends
- OSI security architecture
- Security attacks
- Security services and Mechanism
- Model of Network security
Unit 3 Symmetric Ciphers
- Symmetric cipher model
- Substitution techniques
- Transposition techniques
- Block Cipher principles and Design issues
- Data Encryption Standard
- Advance Encryption Standard
- Traffic Confidentiality
- Key Distribution
Unit 4 Public Key Cryptography
- RSA Algorithm
- Key Management
- Deffie- Hellman Key Exchange
Unit 5 Network Security
- Digital Signatures
- Authentication Protocols, DSS, Kerberos
- X.509 Authentication Services
- Public Key Infrastructure
- IP Security Overview
- IP Security Architecture
Unit 6 Web Security
- Introduction to PGP, Introduction to S/MIME, SSL, TLS, Secure Electronic Transaction (SET)
- SSL vs SET, 3D Secure protocol
- Electronic money
- Intrusion detection
- Password Management
Unit 7 Malicious software
- Viruses and Related Threats
- Virus Countermeasures
- Distributed Denial of Service attacks
- Firewalls Design Principles
- Trusted System 05 Subject Code: 3173211 w.e.f