ITC 2850 - Network Security, Identity, and Authentication

3 Credits
Learn to use and configure network defense technologies including firewalls, virtual private networks, secure overlay networks, and intrusion detection and prevention on unified threat management platforms. This course also covers network and system authentication methods and protocols such as passwords, passkeys, certificates, multi-factor authentication, LDAP, SAML, OpenID, OAuth, Kerberos, and RADIUS.

Pre-Requisites ITC 2530, ITC 2536, ITC 2800

Major Content Areas
Firewalls, Routing, and Unified Threat Management 20%

Virtual Private Networking and Secure Overlay Networks 20%

Intrusion Detection and Prevention 20%

Authentication Methods 20%

Authentication Protocols 20%

Learning Outcomes
Explain how network defense tools (firewalls, VPNs, secure overlay networks, IDS, etc.) are used to defend against attacks and mitigate vulnerabilities

Implement firewall, routing, and network access translation technologies as a part of unified threat management

Implement multiple virtual private network or secure overlay network technologies such as IPSEC, SSL/TLS VPNs, Wire guard, Tailscale, Nebula, Netbird, and Zerotier

Implement intrusion detection/prevention systems

Analyze how security policies are implemented on systems to protect a network

Evaluate how network operational procedures relate to network security

Explain and implement authentication methods such as username/password, passwordless/passkeys, single-sign-on, multi-factor authentication, bearer token authentication, JWT access tokens, certificate-based authentication, and basic HTTP authentication

Explain the features of and implement identity and access management protocols such as LDAP,AML, OpenID, OAuth, Kerberos, and RADIUS