University of Maryland
M.S. Program in Telecommunications
ENTS 650 - Network Security

The purpose of the group project is to delve deeper into some aspect of network security of interest to the group than we can during class time. Groups of three or four will deliver a (preferably PowerPoint) presentation to the class on 10 May. The slides will be posted on the course Web site.

Some possible topics include:

• Access Control over Networks
• Denial of Service protection
• Electronic Commerce security
• Electronic Voting
• Firewalls
• Intrusion Detection
• Java security model
• Middleware security
• Bluetooth security
• Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) security
• Cloud Computing security
• Red Teaming
• Threat Taxonomies
• Advantages and disadvantages of security at application, network, and transport layers