System and Network Engineering Master s Event OS3 Team University of Amsterdam (version 152, 2015/11/12 12:49:52 UTC) 1 History and Philosophy 2 Organisation 3 SNE Lab 4 Courses 5 People involved and more information 1 / 37 2 / 37 History of SNE Inflow Master of Science education, started in 2003 Originally called System and Network Administration In Dutch: Systeem- en NetwerkBeheer Now called System and Network Engineering In Dutch: Systeem- en NetwerkEngineering An interesting mix of bachelor educations Bachelors of Science in Computer Science ( WO ) Bachelors of (Technical) Informatics (Polytechnic ( HBO )) Belonging to the best polytechnic students Moved to Science Park Amsterdam in 2009 Also part-time and international students Two tracks Intake procedure (assessment) is required for all students You need to be well motivated Networking Track and Security Track Security includes Forensics 3 / 37 4 / 37
Outflow Focus Open Technology OS3 SNE master with an academic view Abstraction power Open Standards Scientific knowledge Open Software Innovation power Open Security Presentation skills Security is omnipresent Reporting skills Technical orientation Research skills Middle ground between abstract science and professional application 5 / 37 6 / 37 8 / 37 Top programme 2015 Accreditation Accreditation by the NVAO In June 2013 the master education SNE has been visited by an accreditation panel Most notable fact was that SNE got again, just as in 2008, an excellent evaluation for our didactic concept The official report of the NVAO ( Accreditation Organisation of the Netherlands and Flanders ) is available at their site: https://searchnvaonet/search-detail/55361 http://wwwkeuzegidsorg/ 7 / 37
SNE students 2003-2015 Curriculum Total of 10 modules of 6 ECTS each 60 ECTS == 1 year 2 weeks == 3 ECTS Semester 1: 8+8+4 weeks Semester 2: 8+8+4 weeks Full-time or part-time ( full-time in 2 years) Histogram 10 / 37 Networking Track Security Track Focus on advanced networking Hybrid systems and networks (using lightpaths) In-depth TCP (high bandwidth/high latency) Wireless technology Two specialistic courses InterNetworking and Routing Advanced Networking For 80% the same as the Networking Track Focus on digital security, including forensics System and Network Security and Forensics Two specialistic courses ComputerCrime and Forensics Advanced Security (new course in 2015-2016) 11 / 37 12 / 37
Semester 1 Semester 2 Month Part-time year 1 Part-time year 2 Month Part-time year 1 Part-time year 2 Networking Security Sep Essential Classical Internet Oct Skills Applications Nov Security of Distributed Dec Systems and Networks Systems Jan Research Project 1 Feb Large Installation InterNetworking CyberCrime Mar Administration and Routing and Forensics Apr Offensive Advanced Advanced May Technologies Networking Security June Networking Security Research Proj 2 Research Proj 2 13 / 37 14 / 37 Theoretical courses Project or Practical courses 6 weeks (20 hours a week) 2 * 2 hours lectures 2 * 4 hours lab exercises and practical work 1 * 8 hours private study 1 week casus Same as theoretical courses, but with a small project as part of the practical work Teamwork Communication Presentation 1 week examination 15 / 37 16 / 37
Research Project The fifth day Lectures and lab exercises fill 4 full days every week 4 weeks (full-time) The remaining day (mostly Wednesday) contains Individual work (mostly) Guest lectures Week 1: orientation and project definition Colloquia Week 2 and 3: research Site visits Week 4: report writing Research preparation One day in week 5: presentation Private study 17 / 37 Visit to Paris in October 2015 Visit to CERN in October 2014 18 / 37
SNE Lab production SNE Lab experimental Production environment x86 based PCs Running Ubuntu Linux on the desktop Using our own servers Using our own IP space 145100960/20 and our own IPv6 space 2001:610:158::/48 Experimental environment Unix (Linux, BSD, Mac OS X), Windows, Hardware routers and software routers Each student uses own backend server with virtualisation technology (Xen, UML) 21 / 37 22 / 37 SNE Lab at Science Park opened in August 2009 Essential Skills (ES) Essential Skills Basic skills and techniques Computer Architecture Databases Statistics Structured documentation in L A T E X Regular Expressions Version control systems Compilers, linkers and auto configuration 24 / 37
Classical Internet Applications (CIA) Security of Systems and Networks (SSN) Classical Internet Applications Security of Systems and Networks History Booting DNS(SEC) Email Web Crypto (traditional and modern) Protocols (SSL, IPsec) Authentication Hacking tools Passwords Directories Mini-project included 25 / 37 26 / 37 Distributed Systems (DS) Large Installation Administration (LIA) Distributed Systems Large Installation Administration Communication Data Centers Naming Cloud Computing Synchronization Disaster Recovery and Data Integrity Consistency and Replication Scalability Fault Tolerance Change Management Security Ethics Cooperation with the VU Mini-project included 27 / 37 28 / 37
Offensive Technologies (OT) InterNetworking and Routing (INR Networking Track) Offensive Technologies InterNetworking and Routing Sniffing the network Intrusion detection Hacker mindset Malware Physical and logical structure of the Internet Addressing (IPv4, IPv6) Layer 2 and loop prevention Layer 3 and routing Botnets Interior (RIP, OSPF, IS-IS) Mini-project included Exterior (BGP) 29 / 37 30 / 37 Advanced Networking (AN Networking Track) CyberCrime and Forensics (CCF Security Track) Cybercrime and Forensics Advanced Networking Reliable gathering of digital information Optical Technology Recovering (partially) destroyed information Lightpaths Timelining Next Generation Ethernet Trap avoidance In-depth TCP File systems Wireless Volatile information capture Mini-project included 31 / 37 32 / 37
Advanced Security (AS Security Track) Research Projects Research a problem of your own choice Advanced Security topics Wireless security Embedded security Internet of Things Examples OV Chipcard Detection of peer-to-peer botnets Smart metering Wireless protocol analysis using GNUradio Open Recursive Nameservers Scale-free Optical Networks 33 / 37 34 / 37 E-passport investigation (The Times) Staff The Core Team Director of education Karst Koymans Also Networking Track coordinator Security Track coordinator Jaap van Ginkel Lab teachers Arno Bakker, Mick Pouw System Engineer Niels Sijm Other lecturers Jeroen van Beek, Adam Belloum, Paola Grosso Thilo Kielmann, Cees de Laat Guest lecturers 36 / 37
SNE information https://wwwos3nl/ mailto:info@os3nl goto: Science Faculty, Science Park 904, Amsterdam for a visit and a personal introduction 37 / 37