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Royal Military College of Canada

Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering

 

 

EEE404 - Cyber Defence


Description:


Dr G.S. Knight
knight-s@rmc.ca
Rm S5108
6245

Capt Stephan McKeon
stephen.mckeon@rmc-cmr.ca
Rm S4106
3802

Military and civilian computing systems are frequently attacked by espionage services,organized crime, and hacking groups. In this course, students will investigate the cyber threat environment, network attack, the design of network perimeter defence, and defence-in-depth. The capstone activity is a two-week cyber defence exercise at term end, organized and run by the National Security Agency, involving military college teams from Canada. Students completing this course will be able to design a defensive computer network architecture and understand the network cyber operations environment. Topics include: firewall design; deployment of intrusion detection and prevention systems; design and implementation of security policy; and identification and authentication.

EEE404 Course Outline


Lectures:

Tuesdays: 0800 - 1000 hrs  in SB4112 (alternate SB3411)
Thursdays: 0900 - 1000 hrs in SB4112 (alternate SB3419)
Thursdays: 1000 - 1200 hrs in SB4112 (laboratory)

Seminar Schedule

This table may be updated/changed during the term

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Dates

Period 1

(Tues-1)

Period 2

(Tues-2)

Period 3

(Thur-2)

Lab

(Thur-3,4)

Notes

1

06 – 10 Jan

 Course Intro

CyberX brief

Lab Intro 

Unix CLI

 CyberX 2019 Directive

2

13 – 17 Jan

 Vulnerability Assessment

Port Scanning

 

Vulnerability Scanning

 Security Policy and Risk.mp4

3

20 – 24 Jan

 Proxies

 netcat

 Covert tunnels

Penetrating a firewall 

 

4

27 – 31 Jan

 
Intrusion Detection Systems

  Suricata Primer

 Lab 2 - Network Intrusion Detection with Suricata

 

Chapter 1,2 and 4 of the Guide to Intrusion Detection Systems

5

03 – 07 Feb

Password Attacks

Quiz Reading: Windows 10 Security

 Active Directory

 General Policy Objects

 

6

10 – 14 Feb

Statistical Anomaly Detection

Network Packet Analysis

Network Forensics Analysis

Network Forensics Analysis


7

17 – 21 Feb

Reading Week

 

8

24 – 28 Feb

 Forensics.ppt

Host Forensics

 Memory Forensics

 

9

02 – 06 Mar

 

 

 

 

 

10

09 – 13 Mar

 

 

 

 

 

11

16 – 20 Mar

 

 

 Midterm Exam - CTF Style

(19 March)

 

12

23 – 27 Mar



 

 

 

13

30 Mar – 03 Apr

 CyberX PrepWeek

 

14

06 – 10 Apr

CyberX Exercise Week

 

15

13 – 17 Apr

Class/Exams

 

 

 


 

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