COMP6034 Network Security
S26 units6000-level
This course covers a range of concepts, techniques and technologies in network security. This includes an overview of relevant network protocols and cryptography; analyses of designs and implementations of security protocols, including basic tools and techniques; an understanding of network threats and attacks such as eavesdropping, spoofing, protocol failures, DoS attacks and man-in-the-middle attacks; network defence including threat analysis and identification, architecture control, intrusion detection and layered security. The course features hands-on lectures and labs to analyse network vulnerabilities, and design and implement appropriate defensive techniques.
- 2024not listed
- 2025not listed
- 2026S2
- 2027S2
Prerequisites in 2026
The handbook's wording is ambiguous; this is a person's reading of it
Why it's read this way: The "and" joins the program to the course pair; the "or" only offers two courses.
Incompatible with COMP3704: you can't count both.
The handbook's original wording (2026–2027)
To enrol in this course, you must be enrolled in the Master of Computing (Advanced) and have completed COMP6800 or COMP2700 Incompatible with COMP3704
What it leads to in 2026
These courses name COMP6034 in their 2026 prerequisites: