This is the home page for Peter Chapin's Computer Security course notes for the Spring 2025 semester. Here you will find electronic versions of class handouts, homework assignments, lecture slides, and links to other references of interest. If you are a student taking Network Security, you should bookmark this page.
The homework submission area and grade book are on Canvas. All other course resources are here.
The course syllabus gives an overview of the course and its content, lists course resources, and describes the grading policy and related issues.
This course will require Packet Tracer, a network simulator made by Cisco. You can access Packet Tracer via a Cisco Networking Academy account. If you already have a Cisco Networking Academy account already, you can use that. Otherwise, you can create a free account.
Download Packet Tracer from here (Windows, macOS, Linux). Be sure you are using version 8.2.2. Packet Tracer is very sensitive to version number; different versions cannot share files. If you use any version other than 8.2.2, you will encounter problems interacting with class resources.
There is an experimental network in the BLP-210 lab that we can use for some physical network demonstrations and assignments.
I've prepared some general information on submitting assignments.
My home page contains other resources of potential interest.
The lectures for this course are on Zoom.
These slides are by Jean Hakim. I have made some modifications/updates to them. Most of these slides were converted from PDF to PowerPoint and then back to PDF (the original PowerPoint was lost). The conversion process created some formatting issues, which I am slowly correcting.
Last Revised: 2025-01-14
© Copyright 2025 by Peter Chapin <peter.chapin@vermontstate.edu>