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.