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ITN 101 Introduction to Networking Concepts (3 Credits)
Provides instruction in networking media, physical and logical topologies, common networking standards and popular networking protocols. Course content emphasizes the TCP/IP protocol suite and related IP addressing schemes, including CIDR. Course content also includes selected topics in network implementation, support and LAN/WAN connectivity.

ITN 115 Windows Server 2003 (3 Credits)
Consists of instruction that teaches students how to manage and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003  environment.

ITN 116 Windows 2003 Network Infrastructure Implementation, Management & Maintenance (4 Credits)
Provides instruction on how to implement, manage, and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 network infrastructure.

ITN 118 Windows 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure Planning (4 Credits)
Encompasses instruction on how to plan, implement, and maintain a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory infrastructure.

ITN 260 Network Security Basics (4 Credits)
Provides instruction in the basics of network security in depth. Includes security objectives, security architecture, security models and security layers; risk management, network security policy, and security training. Includes the give security keys, confidentiality integrity, availability, accountability and audit ability.

ITN 267 Legal Topics in Network Security (4 Credits)
Conveys an in-depth exploration of the civil and common law issues that apply to network security. Explores statutes, jurisdictional, and constitutional issues related to computer crimes and privacy. Includes rules of evidence, seizure and evidence handling, court presentation and computer privacy in the digital age.

ITN 275 Incident Response and Computer Forensics (4 Credits)
Prepares the student for a role on an organizational IT support staff where the need for resolving computer incidents is becoming increasingly common. Includes legal and ethical issues of search and seizure of computer and peripheral storage media leading to laboratory exercises examining computers configured with mix of both simulated criminal and other activities which are not criminal in nature, but do violate scenario-driven organizational policy. Requires the student to make choices/recommendations for further pursuit of forensics evidence gathering and analysis. Students will select and gather the utilities and procedures necessary for a court-acceptable forensics toolkit which will then be used to gather and examine specially configured desktop computers. Students will then participate in a mock court proceeding using the collected evidence.

ITN 261 Network Attacks, Computer Crime and Hacking (4 Credits)
Encompasses in-depth exploration of various methods for attacking and defending a network. Explores network security concepts from the viewpoint hackers and their attack methodologies. Includes topics about hackers, attacks, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) malicious code, computer crime and industrial espionage.

ITN 262 Network Communication, Security and Authentication (4 Credits)
Covers an in-depth exploration of various communication protocols with a concentration on TCP/IP. Explores communication protocols from the point of view of the hacker in order to highlight protocol weaknesses. Includes Internet architecture, routing, addressing, topology, fragmentation and protocol analysis, and the use of various utilities to explore TCP/IP.

ITN 263 Internet/Intranet Firewalls and e-Commerce Security (3 Credits)
Gives an in-depth exploration of firewall, Web security, and e-commerce security. Explores firewall concepts, types, topology and the firewall's relationship to the TCP/IP protocol. Includes client/server architecture, the Web server, HTML and HTTP in relation to Web Security, and digital certification, D.509, and public key infrastructure (PKI).

ITN 266 Network Security Layers (3 Credits)
Provides an in-depth exploration of various security layers needed to protect the network. Explores Network Security from the viewpoint of the environment in which the network operates and the necessity to secure that environment to lower the security risk to the network. Includes physical security, personnel security, operating system security, software security and database security.

 

   

 For Additional Information Contact:
 James Dye
, Associate Professor, james.dye@sw.edu, (276) 964-7284
 Sandy Stephenson
, Professor, sandy.stephenson@sw.edu, (276) 964-7272
 Dr. Barbara Fuller, Business Division Interim Dean, barbara.fuller@sw.edu, (276) 964-7278


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