Major in Security and Networking

Students completing the major “Security and Networking” will be able to: Understand and explain different devices and protocols used in computer networking; Design, configure and manage computer networks while taking into account application needs; Identify large scale distributed and parallel applications, the problems occurring with these applications and propose solutions; Carry out distributed applications by implementing the appropriate techniques; Understand the characteristics of distributed systems: parallelism, synchronisation, communication, error and threat models; Use appropriate techniques, algorithms and languages to design, model and analyse distributed applications; Understand and implement mechanisms (cryptography, protocols) to secure networks and distributed systems.