Monday, April 21, 2014

INFORMATION AND NETWORK SECURITY INS December 2010 Semester 6 BE IT

INFORMATION AND NETWORK SECURITY INS December 2010 Semester 6 BE IT

Con. 6146-10.                         (REVISED COURSE)                                 GT-7677
                                                      (3 Hours)                                    [Total Marks:100]


N.B.: (1) Question No.1 is compulsory.
         (2) Attempt any four out of remaining six questions.
         (3) Assume suitable data if necessary and state the assumptionsclearly.

Q1. (a)

What are the attacks in information transfer? Also write the security services used

to prevent these attacks.05
      (b)How AES is better than DES?05
      (c)Compare ACL with C-List05
      (d)Explain Session Hijacking.05

Q2. (a)

Explain RSA cryptosystem in detail.

10
      (b)Explain Network layer attacks. Discuss packet sniffing in detail10

Q3. (a)

What is symmetric key cryptography ? Explain A5/1 algorithm.

10
      (b)Discuss Denial of Service attack with recauses, preventive and reactive measures.10

Q4. (a)

Discuss various categories of malware and ways to detect them.

10
      (b)Explain different types of firewalls. At which layer of Internet Protocol stack do10
each operate?

Q5. (a)

Explain Cryptographic hash function and explain Tiger hash in detail

10
      (b)What are the security policies used by banks during the time of disaster10

Q6. (a)

Discuss different biometric means used for Authentication. Compare them with

10
password authentication.
      (b)Compare Signature based and Anomaly based IDS with suitable examples.10

Q7. (a)

Write notes on any three of the following:

20
   (i) knapsack cryptosystem
   (ii) Covert channel
   (iii) Risk Analysis
   (iv) Web Server vulnerabilities.

Also see Information and network security question papers for December 2011

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