Spring 2005:      April 4 – June 24, 2005

Tuesdays & Thursdays 5:30-8:10 pm, Room ATC 312

Class Web site:  http://deanza.etudes.fhda.edu/

 

Instructor Tony Nguyen Phone: E-mail: Office: Office Hours:

Lab Instructor Phil Deaver Phone: E-mail:

 

Prerequisites

Prerequisite: Computer Information Systems 75A or equivalent experience. Advisories: English Writing 100B and Reading 100 (or Language Arts 100), or English as a Second Language 24 and 72 (or English as a Second Language 4); Mathematics 105 or 114.

Course Description

Learn how to secure your Network Enterprise and learn to balance Network Security with Emergency Response. Network Security Personnel in charge of implementing and maintaining Security Policy would benefit from this course as well as technologists wanting to broaden their impact.

Course Notes (Spring)

CIS -075C-61: Course information and required self-assessment available at http://elc.fhda.edu/cis75c.html

Welcome

Welcome to CNET 56B: Intrusion Detection, Awareness, Analysis & Prevention, an Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) technology and best practices course in which students will work in teams to assess network risk, identify abnormal occurrences, propose countermeasures, and raise security awareness.  Teams work within a simulation of C-Bay, a fast-growing start-up company.  C-Bay, a fictional online real estate auction firm, has employed you and your teammates as IT staff apprentices to solve problems and make recommendations on network security.

Your supervisor at C-Bay (who is also your classroom mentor/instructor) will assign your group tasks through the course website and review and provide feedback on your work. You will attend classroom sessions in which you will work with your team, make group presentations, and participate in discussion and reflection sessions.

You should also plan to meet with your group outside of the classroom on a regular basis. This can be done by scheduling f2f meeting or scheduling a reasonable window of time to enter information and comments in the ETUDES FORUM. Working on authentic security tasks in a realistic business setting will allow you to explore the many risks and trade-offs associated with securing an enterprise without interfering with its operations.

You will need to employ your knowledge of enterprise and network technology to make decisions that achieve a balance between business and security needs.  In doing so, you will learn how enterprise security is achieved and maintained in the real world.

The team learning, problem solving, and business communication skills gained through this Story-Centered learning scenario, combined with the in-depth knowledge of IDS will improve your employability and work skills.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course you will have:

1.      Gained an understanding of the methods employed to detect unauthorized access (networks and hosts).

2.      Developed a comprehensive list of software tools used to combat intruders.

3.      Refined presentation skills needed to gain support of management and co-workers.

4.      Worked successfully in teams to solve authentic business problems.

5.      Created and refined procedures for response to network threats and outages.

6.      Learned the hackers’ mindset and how to respond to hacker attacks.

7.      Performed network risk analysis and assessment.

8.      Learned how to effectively respond to security related inquiries.

9.      Learned how to raise awareness of security procedures to general user population

Resources

ETUDES Class Site

This is a Web-enhanced class. Our online ETUDES class site is where you will read or download course material, review the Assignment schedule for information on required Tasks, post replies to discussion forums, check your grades, and email the instructor and class.  http://deanza.etudes.fhda.edu/

Required online course material

We will be completing sections of all six of the Practicum in Enterprise Security tasks. The class material, including suggested resources, plans of action, task details, and reflection questions, is online in the ETUDES class site’s Classroom or directly at http://elc.fhda.edu/cbay/index.htm20

Optional Textbook

Network Intrusion Detection 3rd edition by Stephen Northcutt and Judy Novak. ISBN: 0735712654

Lab

A hands-on lab will be available for you and your team to work with the equipment and software used by network security professionals.  Availability and tasks will be posted in the ETUDES site.

Schedule

See the Assignment section of the ETUDES class site for task due dates.  Review the tasks and discuss them with your team members well in advance of the due date.

Tasks

Tasks are group efforts.  Each student is expected to contribute a more than fair share of the work.  Team effort evaluations are part of the task requirements.  Several tasks include PowerPoint presentations to the class as well as written components.  Details are in the ETUDES class site and the Practicum course material.

Discussion Forum

You will post comments and questions to course online discussion forums in ETUDES classroom.  To access the forums, log into CNET 56B ETUDES classroom and select the Forum option in the left navigation bar.  FORUM is a separate program embedded into the ETUDES site.  You will need to register in the FORUM to be able to post your comments and replies.  You may find more efficient to write your comments in a word processing program with spell-checking ability and then save as a text file and copy / paste them into the Forum when they are perfected.  Text files are better for maintaining file format when working with ETUDES.

Student Assessment

Your instructors and team members will evaluate your work, including group participation.

Students who contribute to their team’s solutions and presentations should be able to earn an A.  Your work will be rewarded by amplification of your efforts through team developed solutions and presentations.  Fellow team members and the Instructors will evaluate your work and contribution to the tasks’ solutions. 

Below is a general guideline of the grades:

• A Grade: Turns in everything agreed to with acceptable quality and shows good effort
• B Grade: Missing deliverables or minor quality issues but still shows good effort
• C Grade: "Doesn't do A or B work." This grade is unlikely because the mentors/instructors will help you if you drop to this level.

Details are available online in the ETUDES course site.

Course Evaluation

This course was developed under an NSF-ATE grant studying Story-Centered curriculum in the community college. An outside evaluation of the course (not of the students) is part of the grant requirements.  As a participant in this class, you will be able to participate in this study and earn a $100.00 Amazon.com gift certificate.  Additional information will be available during the first class meeting.

For additional information on Story-Centered curriculum, see the Experiential Learning Center’s web site at http://elc.fhda.edu

Logging into ETUDES

First step: Find your course in our ETUDES online classes: http://fh.etudes.fhda.edu

Note: Be sure you are trying to access the CORRECT term/section: De Anza College, Spring 2005

Log In:

1. Enter your UserID: last name + last four digits of your SSN.
   Example: smith6789 (No spaces and NO CAPS!!!!)
2. Do NOT enter a password the first time you log in.
3. Click on Submit.
4. You will be prompted to enter a password which will be good for all subsequent log ins.
5. Write down your password where you will not loose it!

Remember to log-out when you are done, particularly if you are using a public computer.

Online technical assistance with ETUDES is available at http://www.foothillglobalaccess.org/main/help_desk.htm

Standards of Conduct

You are expected to treat each other and the learning experience with honor and respect. See the De Anza College Academic Integrity Policy and Cheating Policy stated in the Schedule of Classes for the formal rules and regulations.

Keys to Success

This is a real-world work experience embedded in an academic course. You must think as a worker, not as a student. The assigned tasks are designed to model the real-world:

1. The process is important.
2. There isn’t enough time to do everything—learning to prioritize is part of the assignment.
3. If, after careful consideration of resources, time, and talents, your team concludes the task is impossible to complete in the time assignment, renegotiate with your manager.