NSE is the reading from Network Security Essential book, and BDC from Business Data Communication
| Date | Topic | NSE | BDC |
| Jan. 20 | Course outline and Questionnaire | N/A | N/A |
| Jan. 22 | Layers of the Internet | N/A | 5.1~5.4 |
| Jan. 27 | The definitions of security | 1.1~1.3 | 18.1 |
| Jan. 29 | Attacks and Web(HTTP) | 1.4~1.10 | 18.2~18.3 |
| Feb. 3-5 | Symmetric key cryptography and Passwords | 2.1~2.4, 9.3 | N/A |
| Feb. 10 | Public Key Cryptography | 3.3~3.4 | N/A |
| Feb. 12 | Secure Hash Function | 3.2 | N/A |
| Feb. 17 | SSL/TLS | 7.1~7.2 | 19.2 |
| Feb. 19 | MySQL/PHP part 1and quiz | N/A | N/A |
| Feb. 24 | PHP part 2, Quiz solutions | N/A | N/A |
| Feb. 26 | Cookies How Internet Cookies Work, Wikipedia's HTTP cookie, The details of the WSJ attack are in Dos and Don'ts of Client Authentication on the Web | N/A | N/A |
| Mar. 3 | SMTP and Mix | N/A | N/A |
| Mar. 5 | Spam filtering | N/A | N/A |
| Mar. 10 | Practice Midterm | N/A | N/A |
| Mar. 12 | Midterm | N/A | N/A |
| Mar. 17-19 | Spring break | N/A | N/A |
| Mar. 24 | Phase 4 and Midterm review | N/A | N/A |
| Mar. 26 | TCP and reliable data transfer | N/A | 5.2 |
| Mar. 31 | IP addresses More graphics | N/A | 8.1~8.2 |
| Apr. 2 | Dijkstra's shortest path algorithm | N/A | 8.1~8.2 |
| Apr. 7 | Intra- and Inter Autonomous System Routing | N/A | |
| Apr. 9 | Hierarchical structure | N/A | |
| Apr. 14 | Intrusion detection systems and delays | 9.1~9.2 | 18.2~18.3, 19.4 |
| Apr. 16 | Malicious software and Trusted Systems History of worm on the media NYTimes story | 10.1~10.3, 11.2 | 18.4~18.5, 19.6 |
| Apr. 21 | Firewalls | 11.1 | 19.5 |
| Apr. 23 | Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) Read this (HawkID required) At home, login to this first. | ||
| Apr. 28 | Stream Cipher | 2.3 | |
| Apr. 30 | Wireless security | 11.1-5 | |
| Apr. 30 - May 5 | Project presentations | ||
| May 7 | Review for final, Format | ||
| May 11 | Final exam at 12noon at 218 MLH |