The course will cover topics spanning five broad themes: (1) infrastructure topics such as firewalls, network intrusion detection, secure routing protocols, and recent advances such as software-defined networking; (2) network attacks such as denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, worm and virus propagation; (3) analysis and inference topics such as network forensics and attack economics; (4) user related topics such as authentication, anonymity and censorship resilience; and (5) new technologies.

Syllabus

https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~vsekar/Teaching/Spring21/18731//

https://www.africa.engineering.cmu.edu/education/programs/courses/18-731-RW.html

Class format

Lecture and project-based 

Home department

ECE

Target audience

• ECE undergraduates (18-334)
• ECE MS / Ph.D. graduate students (18-731) and CMU Africa students (18-731-RW)

Background required

The class is open to graduate students with a strong background in networking, security, and systems. 

Faculty and instructors who have taught this course in the past

Vyas Sekar, Nicolas Christin, Emmanuel Ndashimye