CT-460 Network & Information Security
| CREDIT HOURS | PREREQUISITE COURSES |
| Theory = 3 | Nil |
| Practical = 1 |
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)
| S. No. | CLOs | Taxonomy | PLO Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Be able to understand the traditional encryption, security attacks and the fundamentals of network and information security. | Coginitive Level 1 | PLO-1 |
| 2 | Understand the common principles of network and information security and be able to apply them in a variety of applications. | Coginitive Level 3* | PLO-4 |
| 3 | Be able to implement a practical security solution or understand the need of security in real life. | Psychomotor 3* | PLO-5 |
COURSE CONTENT
Introduction to simple Cryptosystems and their Cryptanalysis: Shift, Substitution, Affine, Vigenere, Hill, Permutation and stream ciphers. Shannon's Theory: Elementary Probability theory, entropy, perfect secrecy, unicity distance. Block Ciphers and Advance Encryption Standard, Chaining; Substitution-permutation networks, Feistel networks; Linear cryptanalysis of an SPN. Cryptographic hash functions: Security requirements, collisions; Security uses: passwords, message and data integrity, notaries; MD5, SHA; Message authentication codes; Birthday attack. The RSA Cryptosystems: Primes, GCDs and the Extended Euclidean Algorithm, modular exponentiation and inverses, Euler totient function, Euler's theorem, Introduction to public-key cryptography; RAS: basic implementation details. Digital signature schemes: E1Gamal, DSA; Elliptic Curve DSA; One-time Signatures, Undeniable Signatures Zero-Knowledge proofs, Bit communication; Pseudorandom number generation. Network communication concepts: Network overview, specific networking protocols, transmission media and networking hardware. Optimizing and fine tuning for performance: Ways to speed up an existing server, Stress testing techniques. Threat of computer crimes. Network security issues: Techniques to increase security, Internet related security issues. Troubleshooting and preventive maintenance: Basic element of troubleshooting, hardware troubleshooting tools, Software troubleshooting tools, Diagnosing real world problems, Troubleshooting the physical network, Troubleshooting WANS.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS- Cryptography and Network Security Principles and Practices, William Stallings, 8th ed.,Pearson Higher Education, 2022.
- Cryptography Theory & Practice, Douglas Robert Stinson and Maura Paterson, 4th ed., Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2018.
- Network Security Fundamentals, Peter Norton and Mike Stockman, 1st ed., Sams, 1999.
- Network Security: A Beginners Guide, Eric Maiwald,3rd ed., McGraw-Hill Osbourne, 2013.
- Network Security Bible, Eric Cole, 2nd ed., John Wiley & Sons, 2009
MG-482 Organizational Behavior
| CREDIT HOURS | PREREQUISITE COURSES |
| Theory = 3 | Nil |
| Practical = 0 |
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs)
| S. No. | CLOs | Taxonomy | PLO Mapping |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Explain key organizational behavior concepts and its implications. | Coginitive Level 2 | PLO-10 |
| 2 | Analyze organizational behavior practices from the perspective of ethical criteria. | Coginitive Level 4 | PLO-8 |
| 3 | Express strategies to change individual & group behaviors for organizational success. | A3 | PLO-6 |
COURSE CONTENT
Introduction to Organizational Behaviour: Foundations of OB: Management functions, roles, and skills; Effective versus successful managerial activities; replacing intuition with systematic study. Exploring OB challenges and opportunities facing globalization: Improving quality and productivity; improving people skills; managing work force diversity; responding to globalization; empowering people; stimulating innovation and change; coping with temporariness; handling declining employee loyalty; improving ethical behavior. Foundations of Individual Behaviour: Individuals & Organizations: Biographical traits and ability; and personality. Perceptions and individual decision making: Understanding perception and its significance, factors influencing perception; linking perception and individual decision making; optimizing decision making model; alternative decision making models; issues in decision making. Values, attitudes and job satisfaction: Importance, sources, types of values; sources and types of attitude; attitude and consistency; measuring job satisfaction; determinants of job satisfaction; effect of job satisfaction on employee performance; ways employees can express dissatisfaction. Motivation- basic concepts and applications. Foundations of Group Behaviour: Group in OB: Defining and classifying groups; stages of group development, work group behaviour; dynamics of groups. Understanding work teams: Team versus group; types of teams, creating high performance teams; turning individuals into team players. Communication: communicating at interpersonal and organizational level. Leadership: basic approaches and contemporary issues. Conflict & negotiation: defining conflict; transition in conflict thought; conflict process; negotiation - strategies, process and issues. Foundations of Organizational Structure: Organizational structure and design; work design; work stress Organizational culture: definition; culture's functions, employees and organizational culture. Organization change and development: forces for change; managing planned change, resistance to change; approaches to managing organizational change.
RECOMMENDED BOOKS- Organizational Behaviour, Stephen P. Robins, Timothy A Judge, & Seema Sanghi, 13th ed., Pearson Education, 2009.
- Organizational Behaviour, John W. Newstrom, 12th ed., McGraw Hill Companies, 2006.
- Organizational Behavior, Fred Luthans, 12th ed., McGraw-Hill Education, 2010.