Security Projects

Presentation introducing Bluetooth as a short-range wireless cable-replacement technology. Covers device connections, piconets, technical characteristics, and security concerns in ad hoc networks.

Historical presentation on the Carnivore surveillance system and its law-enforcement context. Discusses electronic communications, cybercrime, and the use of network surveillance tools.

Presentation on denial-of-service and distributed denial-of-service attacks and their effects on enterprise availability. Reviews historical attack categories, business impact, defensive policies, and incident response.

Presentation explaining DoS and distributed DoS, attack categories, and why these threats are difficult to counter. Includes historical tools, demonstrations, and prevention concepts in a network-security teaching context.

Presentation explaining digital-signature features, concepts, operation, and registration. Shows how public and private keys can help verify a signer and detect changes to a message.

Presentation on converting readable information into ciphertext. Introduces symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, and hash functions and compares their basic roles.

Presentation introducing firewalls as a way to control unwanted traffic at a network boundary. Explains their protective role in a networked system.

Presentation comparing packet filters, circuit gateways, application gateways, and stateful inspection. Discusses firewall operation and basic design choices. The author name follows the presentation rather than the filename.

Presentation on protecting private networks against hostile access and unwanted traffic. Compares hardware and software firewalls and explains filtering at the junction between networks.

Student presentation defining firewalls and reviewing their components, benefits, products, and practical limitations. The author names follow the presentation rather than the older filename.

Presentation on filtering incoming and outgoing IP traffic. Reviews application-specific and hardware-based firewall approaches and the accept-or-reject decisions they enforce.

Presentation explaining Mobile IP, mobile connectivity, home addresses, and care-of addresses. Despite the InternetFirewalls filename, the actual subject is mobile networking.

Historical student presentation introducing the identification of suspicious network-traffic patterns. Includes packet capture and decoding topics; some material mixes intrusion-detection concepts with network-driver features.

Paper introducing the OSI model, router structure, logical addressing, routing, and packet filtering. Explains how network-layer functions contribute to controlling traffic and protecting a network.

Lecture-style presentation accompanying the router-security topic. Covers the OSI model, network-layer addressing and routing, IP addressing, and the use of packet filtering.

Student presentation defining firewalls and illustrating their placement in a network. Introduces firewall categories and their role in controlling access to network resources.

Network-security project based on a community-college scenario. Covers business and technical goals, remote access, user communities, applications, topology changes, testing, deployment, and additional safeguards.

Presentation introducing cryptography, PKI terminology, and infrastructure components. Highlights aspects that require planning when deploying a public-key infrastructure.

Presentation explaining prevention, detection, and recovery as parts of computer security. Distinguishes threats, vulnerabilities, and attacks before introducing categories of security risk.

Presentation surveying probes and scans, compromised accounts, packet sniffing, denial of service, malicious code, and spoofing. Provides a historical overview of common threats to software and networked systems.

Case-study presentation on the development and modernization of a correspondence and task-tracking system. Compares application generations, architecture, workflow, and the value of systems analysis; this is a systems project rather than a general security tutorial.

Paper on monitoring and maintaining networks through configuration, fault, security, performance, and accounting management. Despite the Wireless Network Security Solutions filename, the document’s actual subject is network management.