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Post-academic course in ICT 

ICT Networking and security 

First component of a new broad ICT course 

Part I: Communication networks, January – March 2008 

Module 1: Fixed Networks 

Module 2: Multimedia Networks 

Module 3: Wireless Networks 

Module 4: eTOM 

Cases 

Part II: Security, April – June 2008 

Module 1: Security Basics 

Module 2: Security Applications 

Module 3: Advanced Security Configuration 

Module 4: Organisational Aspects 

Module 5: Legal Aspects 

Cases 

Business version! 

Extra large scale business 

version available via live 

streaming video – see inside 

Obtain a Ghent 

University certificate 

Scientific Coordination 

Prof. dr. ir. Eric Laermans 

Prof. dr. ir. Piet Demeester 

Prof. dr. ir. Ingrid Moerman 

Department of Information Technology, 

Ghent University, IBBT 

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introduction 

ICT in Continuing Education: the IVPV success story 

By the end of the previous century, the IVPV together with Agoria challenged the shortage in ICT-specialists by setting up a large 

scale IT course. For one or two evenings per week, around 2000 employees throughout Belgium and Europe faithfully attended the 

videoconferences organised by the Flemish universities. Many participants took exams on one or more modules, and received a university 

certificate. The course was a true milestone for industry, and gave a new élan to many ICT-experts. 

Today Agoria teaches us that again there is a growing shortage in ICT-specialists. The IVPV picks up the Agoria inquiry, and revitalizes 

a new large scale ICT course. As always, the course is demand driven, and the content has been set up in close collaboration with 

industry. 

Why this course 

The evolution in the world of communication networks in 

the last decades has been rapid and thorough. We evolved 

from traditional, fixed telephone networks, well controlled 

by clearly identified operators 

of the user itself in the form of some spyware leaking precious 

information to the hacker who planted the piece of malware. 

Furthermore, as users and enterprises rely more and more 

on their network infrastructure to do business, the consequences 

of successful attacks have 

to mobile, pervasive, more open 

and ever more complex IP-based 

networks. The share of voice communication 

in total network traffic has 

dwindled, while the amount of data 

communication over IP-networks 

from new applications as file transfer, 

e-mail, Web, etc. has steadily 

risen. Even within mobile networks, 

data communication is taking an 

ever larger share with new technologies 

as UMTS. Today, these new data 

networks even compete with the 

The ICT Networking & security course is 

the first part of a large scale international 

ICT course organised by the Institute of 

Continuing Education at Ghent University. 

In total, five parts will be organised 

dealing with Multimedia (Part II), Software 

Engineering (Part III), Operating Systems 

& ICT System Management (Part IV) and 

Databases (Part V). All parts are scheduled 

within 2008-2009. If you want to be 

updated about the following parts, send 

an e-mail to info@ivpv.ugent.be 

become orders of magnitude more 

devastating. The second objective 

of this course is to allow to understand 

which security functions and 

mechanisms exist, how they can be 

used and implemented to achieve 

acceptably secure communications. 

Who should attend 

This course is aimed at people with 

some technological background, 

although they need not be experts 

in ICT. Only the advanced lab sessions 

older more traditional networks for the telephone service, as 

Voice-over-IP has become a fierce competitor to the historical from the fourth module of the second part require a suffi- 

cient experience to start. 

telephone operators. This course aims to present the underlying 

technologies of this relatively new reality. 

Post-academic Course Certificate granted by 

the Ghent University 

Originally, networks were typically tightly controlled by welldefined 

operators. Attacks against those networks were sometimes 

possible, allowing the hacker 

This programme is part of the Ghent University post-academic 

courses. To receive a post-academic certificate granted by 

Ghent University for Part I and/or 

to pass the bill of his communications 

to the victim of the hacking, 

but the amplitude of the attacks and 

their damage were generally rather 

limited. The openness of contemporary 

networks, especially IP-based 

networks, and the complexity and 

vulnerability of contemporary terminals 

(computers or advanced mobile 

devices), means that much more 

attention has to be spent on the 

Extra business edition! 

Follow this course worldwide. For 

companies interested in this course, a 

live streaming video of the lectures via 

the Internet will be available to attend 

locally at your business sites worldwide. 

Some of the lab sessions can also 

be organised locally in your company. 

For more information, contact us at: 

ivpv@ugent.be 

Part II, one should at least attend 

modules 1, 2 and 3 of part I and/or 

modules 1, 2 and 4 of part II, and 

successfully take exams for these. 

The exam will normally take place at 

the end of September 2008. Example 

questions, giving a precise idea of 

what can be asked at the exam, will 

be given in advance. Course certificates 

are a personal merit: participants 

who aspire a certificate cannot 

security of these networks. Attacks can come from anywhere, be replaced, others can. 

at any time. The attack could even originate from the terminal

programme 

Program Part I: Communication networks 

Module 1: Fixed Networks 

The basis of most contemporary fixed networks is the TCP/IP protocol 

stack. The objective of this module is to discuss in more detail the 

several layers of this stack, starting with the application layer and 

ending with the data link layer. At the application layer, we shall 

deal with the most common protocols for Web (HTTP), e-mail (SMTP, 

POP), file transfer (FTP),... One level lower in the protocol stack, at 

the transport layer, we find the well known TCP and UDP. The transport 

layer itself relies on the underlying network layer, where the Internet 

Protocol (IP) is used. At this point routing and network management 

tools like OSPF, BGP, ICMP, NAT, DHCP,... will also be discussed. Finally, 

we end with the data link layer protocols such as Ethernet or PPP. 

The theory from this module will be illustrated by a series of 4 lab 

sessions which will give the course members hands-on experience 

about the operation of basic IP applications, network protocols and 

basic network configuration. 

Teachers: Piet Demeester, Andy Van Maele (Lab sessions) 

Organisation: 3 plenary sessions theory + 4 group sessions lab exercises 

Reference book: “Computer networking - A top-down approach 

featuring the internet, 4th Edition” by James F. Kurose & Keith W. Ross 

Module 2: Multimedia Networks 

The second module of this part about communication networks deals 

with multimedia networks and the specific network requirements multimedia 

implies. It is in this module that we shall discuss important 

concepts as quality of service (QoS), multicast and the next generation 

of the Internet Protocol (IPv6), which offers new possibilities that are 

unavailable in less advanced networks and are useful for the reliable 

transmission of multimedia data. Voice-over-IP will be considered as a 

typical multimedia application. Other, more advanced, techniques that 

will also be dealt with are SIP (used to support Voice-over-IP), MPLS 

(used to support QoS),... 

The theory is complemented by a series of 3 lab sessions where experience 

will be acquired with the nature of video traffic, by configuring 

a network to support QoS and with SIP. 

Teachers: Piet Demeester, Andy Van Maele (Lab sessions) 


Reference book: “Computer networking - A top-down approach 

featuring the internet, 4th Edition” by James F. Kurose & Keith W. Ross 

Module 3: Wireless Networks 

Two different kinds of wireless networks are dealt with in this module. 

On the one hand, we shall consider mobile communication systems 

relying on large cellular infrastructures, like GSM and UMTS. But the 

main accent of this module will lie on less “institutional” wireless 

technologies like WiMAX (wide area networks), WLAN (local networks), 

Bluetooth and Zigbee (personal networks) and even RFID (tagging). 

Teacher: Ingrid Moerman 

Organisation: 3 plenary sessions theory 

Reference book: “Mobile Communications, 2 nd edition” by Jochen 

Schiller 

Module 4: eTOM 

The first part is concluded by a session about eTOM, which is to the 

telecommunication industry what ITIL is to the information technology 

industry: a framework of best practice approaches to deliver high 

quality services. It deals with the more organisational, rather than 

technical, aspects of telecommunication networks. 

Teacher: Filip De Turck 

Organisation: 1 plenary session theory 

Extra module: Cases 

This module contains 1 session with 4 cases to give an overall illustration 

of the course topics. Subscription is free and automatically 

included. 

Organisation: 1 group session lab exercises 

Program Part II: Security 

Module 1: Security Basics 

What does information security mean Which functions can be realised 

Why do we need security These are the questions that should be 

answered in the first session of this module. 

The main basic objectives of information security are discussed: confidentiality, 

authentication, data-integrity, non-repudiation and availability. 

We shall show what may happen if insufficient measures are 

taken to achieve these properties and how people with bad intentions 

can undermine these objectives to gain an advantage. Besides these 

basic security concepts, this module also deals with the concrete basic 

mechanisms that can be used to achieve the desired security objectives. 

The basic principles of conventional and asymmetric encryption, 

hash functions, message authentication codes, time stamps, certificates, 

PKI,... are explained, without plunging into the mathematical 

details underlying these complex techniques. Biometric techniques will 

also be shortly discussed here, both with their advantages and their 

shortcomings. 

Teacher: Eric Laermans 


Reference book: “Cryptography and Network Security, Principles and 

Practices, 4th edition” by William Stallings 

*1 session = 2 lectures/labs of 1.5 hr. 

Module 2: Security Applications 

Once the basic building blocks are well understood, we shall try to 

understand how they are used to achieve security in communication 

networks, at the different levels of the protocol stack: at application 

layer (PGP, S/MIME, SSH,...), at the transport layer (TLS/SSL) or at 

the network layer (IPSec). Related to these secure protocols, we shall 

also explain how they can be used to create VPN’s. The use of these 

cryptographic security techniques alone is not sufficient to guarantee

teachers 

the security of computer or communication systems. System security 

measures protecting against malware and other intrusions are also essential. 

This is why we shall also discuss malware protection, firewalls and 

intrusion detection systems. And finally, as wireless networks are particularly 

open and vulnerable to attacks, we deal with the specific security 

measures for wireless networks: from the defective WEP to the improved 

WPA and WPA2. A demonstration session will illustrate the potential risks 

in networks, especially in WEP secured wireless local networks. 

The theory presented in this module is also complemented by two lab 

sessions about the principles of network security and about the configuration 

and vulnerability of a basic wireless local network secured by WEP. 

Teachers: Eric Laermans, Andy Van Maele (Lab sessions) 


Reference book: “Cryptography and Network Security, Principles and 

Practices, 4th edition” by William Stallings 

Module 3: Advanced security configuration 

To those who are already more familiar with ICT and security, this module 

is devoted to the more advanced practical aspects of information security. 

In a series of 4 lab sessions, hands-on experience will be obtained in 

advanced PC security, authentication services with a RADIUS server and 

advanced security aspects of wireless networks. 

Teacher: Andy Van Maele 

Organisation: 1 plenary session theory + 4 group sessions lab exercises 

Module 4: Organisational aspects 

Security is not just a matter of technology. The organisational aspects 

certainly are not less important. In this module, we shall see how information 

security can be organised within a company: how security policies 

are designed and implemented and how a company can respond to security 

incidents. Attention will also be given to the control and auditing of 

security policies, for which CobiT is an important standard. 

Teacher: Marc Vael 


Module 5: Legal aspects 

The security part of this course concludes with a last module about the 

legal aspects of security. What activities (hacking, identity theft,...) 

can be considered illegal What are the legal measures against computer 

crime Another important legal aspect of information security is the 

protection of personal data (of customers or employees). This module 

also discusses the obligations a company has to achieve an acceptable 

level of information security. Besides protection against attacks, we also 

deal with the legal framework for electronic signatures and e-commerce. 

Teacher: Jos Dumortier 

Organisation: 1 plenary session theory 

Scientific Coordination 

> Prof. dr. ir. Eric Laermans 



> Prof. dr. ir. Piet Demeester 



> Prof. dr. ir. Ingrid Moerman 



Teachers 

> Piet Demeester 



> Jos Dumortier 

ICRI, KULeuven, IBBT 

> Filip De Turck 



> Eric Laermans 



> Ingrid Moerman 



> Marc Vael 

Executive Director at Protiviti Belgium, Brussels 

> Andy Van Maele 



This course is organised as a cooperation between the 

Institute for Continuing Education (IVPV) of Ghent University 

and the Interdisciplinary institute for BroadBand Technology 

(IBBT) with the support of Agoria (Belgium employers’ 

organisation and trade association). 

Extra module: Cases 

This module contains 1 session with 4 cases to give an overall illustration 

of the course topics. Subscription is free and automatically included. 

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Part I: Communication Networks 

∏ Module 1: Fixed Networks € 1100 

∏ Module 2: Multimedia Networks € 800 

∏ Module 3: Wireless Networks € 500 

∏ Module 4: eTom € 200 

∏ Modules 1 – 4 together € 2100 

Part II: Security 

∏ Module 1: Security Basics € 330 

∏ Module 2: Security Applications € 1100 

∏ Module 3: Advanced Security Configuration € 800 

∏ Module 4: Organisational Aspects € 330 

∏ Module 5: Legal Aspects € 200 

∏ Modules 1 – 5 together € 2200 

∏ All modules Part I & II € 3900 

Reference books 

∏ Computer networking - A top-down approach featuring the internet, 

Participation Fee 

The participation fee includes the tuition fee, course notes, 

soft drinks, coffee and sandwiches. Payment occurs after 

reception of the invoice. All invoices are due in thirty days. 

All fees are exempt of VAT; eventual transfer rates are at the 

expense of the participant. Reference books are billed directly 

by the bookshop. Special prices apply for UGent employees and 

members of Ghent University Association (Consult the website 

from within the Ghent University/Association network). 

Group Reduction 

When participant(s) of a company subscribe for the equivalent 

of the complete course, a reduction of 20% is given to all 

additional subscriptions of the same company, even on single 

modules. Invoicing is then done by one company invoice. For 

larger numbers of subscriptions, additional reductions could be 

envisaged: please contact the IVPV-secretariat. 

Training cheques (‘Opleidingscheques – BEA’) 

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supplier within the framework of the training cheques of the 

Flemish Community. Thereby you can save on the participation 

fee of this training (www.vlaanderen.be/opleidingscheques). 

For employers we refer to www.BEAweb.be (authorisation ID: 

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4 th edition by James F. Kurose & Keith W. Ross (reference work for Part I, modules 1 and 2): e 50,26 (incl. VAT). 

∏ Cryptography and Network Security, Principles and Practices, 

4 th edition by William Stallings (reference work for Part II, modules 1 and 2): e 65,72 (incl. VAT). 

∏ Mobile Communications, 2 nd edition by Jochen Schiller (reference work for Part I, module 3): e 63,02 (incl. VAT).

practical info 

Practical Information 

The programme consists of different modules. Each module 

can be followed separately. Plenary sessions (theory) are 

organised as follows: 

> 18h00-19h30: session 1 

> 19h30-20h00: sandwich break 

> 20h00-21h30: session 2 

Location 

> Plenary sessions (theory): Ghent University, Institute 

for Continuing Education, Campus Engineering Faculty, 

Building “Magnel” (nr. 904), Technologiepark, 9052 

Zwijnaarde, Belgium 

> Lab sessions: Ghent University, IBBT, Zuiderpoort Office 

Park, Gaston Crommenlaan 8, B-9050 Gent-Ledeberg, 

Belgium 

Language 

English is used in all presentations, lab exercises and 

documentation, so a good knowledge of this language 

is necessary. 

Cancellation Policy 

> Cancellation should be done in writing (either letter or 

fax); 

> Cancellation can be done on individual modules or on full 

subscriptions; 

> When cancelling up to 10 days before the start of the 

course/module, an administrative fee of 25% on the 

requested payback is due; 

> When cancelling less than 10 days before the start of the 

module, the full fee is due; 

Information and Documentation 

More detailed information about the course in general or 

on particular modules can be found on the course website: 

http://www.ivpv.ugent.be 

The IVPV secretariat can also be contacted: 

Institute for Continuing Education 

Els Van Lierde 

Technologiepark 913, 9052 Zwijnaarde 

Tel: +32 9 264 55 82, fax: +32 9 264 56 05 

E-mail: ivpv@UGent.be 

Scheduling & Participation Fee 

Part I: Communication Networks Theory Lab* Fee** 

Module 1: Fixed Networks 10/01/08, 17/01/08, 24/01/08 12/01/08, 19/01/08, € 1100 

26/01/08, 02/02/08 

Module 2: Multimedia Networks 31/01/08, 13/02/08 16/02/08, 23/02/08, 1/03/08 € 800 

Module 3: Wireless Networks 21/02/08, 28/02/08, 6/03/08 € 500 

Module 4: eTom 13/03/08 € 200 

Extra Module: Cases 20/03/08 Included 

Part II: Security Theory Lab* Fee** 

Module 1: Security Basics 10/04/08, 17/04/08 € 330 

Module 2: Security Applications 24/04/08, 30/04/08, 8/05/08, 17/05/08, 24/05/08 € 1100 

15/05/08, 22/05/08 

Module 3: Advanced Security Configuration 29/05/08 31/05/08, 7/06/08, € 800 

14/06/08, 21/06/08 

Module 4: Organisational Aspects 5/06/08, 12/06/08 € 330 

Module 5: Legal Aspects 19/06/08 € 200 

Extra Module: Cases 26/06/08 Included 

Part I: all modules together € 2100 

Part II all modules together € 2200 

Part I & II, all modules € 3900 

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* Extra lab sessions will be organised if necessary This schedule may be subject to modification 

** Exempt of VAT. Eventual transfer rates are at the expense of the participant.

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