WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11: Network threats and secure communication
Students learn how to model threats to networks and how encryption, HTTPS, VPNs and Wi-Fi security protect data in transit.
One content description from the full WA Computer Science ATAR Year 11 — Network Communications journey. All 16 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (16)
1
ISM guideline: segmentation and segregation
2
Trust boundaries
3
Man-in-the-middle attacks
4
Risks of unsecured public Wi-Fi
5
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack
6
STRIDE threat categories
7
Writing a threat model table
8
Why data is encrypted
9
Encrypting and decrypting with one shared key
10
Public key
11
Private key
12
HTTP compared with HTTPS
13
SSL certificates and the handshake
14
Virtual private networks (VPNs)
15
Securing a Wi-Fi network
16
MAC address filtering
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