Societies depend on communication networks that are used to exchange vast quantities of data and information, across many sectors (e.g., government, industry, academia, health care etc.) on a global scale.

This module introduces students to the fundamentals of networking and will provide an expansive insight into essential concepts, technologies, protocols, services, and practices that enable societies and infrastructure across the globe, to be digitally connected 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. This module also introduces students to the foundations of network security and promotes the concepts of networks that aim to be "secure-by-design".

Indicative topics include an introduction to CyBOK, an introduction to laws, regulations, professional standards, practices and ethics for the cyber security profession; an introduction to networking and security concepts, security goals; examining equality, diversity and inclusion in cyber security; exploring themes of sustainability in cyber security; the OSI reference model, infrastructure and topologies, wireless networking security, protocols (e.g., TCP, IP, UDP IP4, IP6, ICMP, ARP), routers, routing, network segmentation, network services (e.g., firewalls, ftp, DHCP, DNS), tools & applications (e.g., ping, whois, nmap, nslookup, netcat, tracert, packet tracer, Wireshark), logs, network monitoring, firewalls, BYOD.

*Course content subject to change