Practicum is traditionally referenced as a course of supervised study in a professional field. In the context of computing education, it is also used for practices at a lab environment which emulates the real world situation. With the advancement of computing technology, a lab environment could be a physical lab or a virtual lab.
This is a practicum course of computer network security where students will learn to create a virtual computing network environment. Students will then use open source tools to create different attacking scenarios and then implement defense solutions to protect the network from those attacks. A major learning outcome is to design an enterprise network with security consideration to protect from various hacking and intrusion attacks. The course starts with a brief review of security requirements and then emerges students in various security tools to experiment on various attacking and defense scenarios.

PREREQUISITE (knowledge): (1) TCP/IP protocols, (2) Linux operating system, and (c) one programming language course (C++ or Python is preferred)