ITI

Introduction to
Computer Networks & Cyber Security
Prepared By : Mohamed AboSehly
 Agenda

❖ Session 1
Network Essentials

❖ Session 2
Cyber Security Essentials

❖ Session 3
Distributed System
 Computer Network Workshop

References:

o Essential Computer Science “ Paul D. Crutcher,Neeraj Kumar Singh,Peter Tiegs”

o Cisco Student Guide ICND1

o CompTIA Network
Session 1 (Network Essentials)
• Session Outlines

• Computer Networks
• Definition and Basic Terminologies

• TCP/IP Protocol Suite

• Network Access Layer (Physical Layer /Datalink Layer)

• Internet layer

• Transport layer

• Application Layer
Session 1 (Computer Networks Definition)

• Computer Network :
• a collection of computers, and other devices, or
peripherals connected together through connecting
media to perform certain task such as :
Share Resources

• Resources can be :
• File Sharing
• Devices Sharing
• Software Sharing with multi-user licenses.
• Voice and Video calls
• Shared Internet Access
Session 1 (Network Elements)
• Network Elements
Hardware
• Devices
• Computers – Printers –Phone – Routers - Switches

• Medium
• Wired -Wireless –Satellites

• Software
• Messages
• Information that travels over the medium such as Mails-WhatsApp….etc

• Protocols
• Governs how messages flow across network such as http –https-FTP-RDP
Session 1 (Network Basic Terminologies )
• NIC (Network Interface Card)/network adapter or LAN adapter.
• a hardware that enable the device to directly access the network

• Internal NIC (plugs into the motherboard directly)

• External NIC(Wireless and USB based )

• Mac address:
• Physical Address, Unique address over the world burned on the
NIC card
• IP address :
• logical address, identify each device on an IP network layer.
• Protocols
• Communication rules that all entity must agree onhttp –https-FTP-
RDP
Session 1 (Network Basic Terminologies )
• Hub
• Allow different nodes to communicate with each other at the same
network(Slow the network)

• Repeater
• Regenerate the signal over the same network before the signal
becomes too weak or corrupted

• Access point (AP)

• allows other Wi-Fi devices to connect to a wired network. An AP is a
physical location where Wi-Fi access is available.

• Switch
• Allow different nodes to communicate with each other at the same
network and time without slowing each other

• Router
• Allow different networks to communicate with each other
Session 1 (LAN VS WAN)

• Local Area Networks (LAN)

• a group of computers connected in small geographical area such
as school, university campus or office building (100 -1000 M)
• Allow users to share files and services
• High speed of communications
• Under administrative Control

• Wide Area Networks (WAN)

• A WAN is a group of computers connected in Large geographical
area such as country
• WAN can contain multiple smaller networks, such as LANs or MANs.
• Very low Speed
• Under your ISP Administrative control
example of WAN is Internet
Session 1 (Internet )

• The internet
• is defined as a global mesh of interconnected networks
• No one actually owns the Internet
• Many Orgs, ISPs, Companies, Govs own pieces of
Internet Infrastructure.
• ISOC: Internet Society
• IETF: Internet Engineering Task Forum
• ICANN: Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers
Session 1 (Peer to Peer Vs Client/Server )

• Peer to Peer Networks

• No dedicated resources to present specific service
• Easy to work with
• All nodes are the same (equal to use the resources )
• Client/Server Networks
• Some nodes (SERVER) are dedicated to present services
to other nodes (CLIENTS)
• Server is more powerful
• Mail Server
• Web Server
• File Server
• Print Server
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Suite)

• Why we need Protocols ?

• To communicate efficiently
• Enable data to flow from one NIC to another
• Control the messages and the messages quantity
in the network.

• OSI Reference Model

• OSI: Open Systems Interconnect
• was defined by ISO in 1983
• Give developers universal concepts so they can
develop protocols
• The OSI reference model breaks this approach into
layers.
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Suite)

• TCP/IP
• Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol.
• Open standard protocol
• Cross Platform ) default protocol for all modern operating systems(
• Microsoft Operating Systems
• LINUX Operating Systems
• Not tied to one vendor
• Direct access to the Internet) TCP/IP is the internet protocol(
• Now internet use TCP/IP v4
• Next version TCP/IP v6
• Routable
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Suite)

• TCP/IP VS. OSI Model

 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Some Protocols in TCP/IP Suite

Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Network Access Layer

• Physical Layer
- defines the electrical, Transmission medium
- movements of individual Bits from one node to next
• Datalink Layer
- Logical interface between end system and network
- Error notification.
(FRAMES, MAC(Media Access Control))
- Hop to Hop addressing
- Error detection Mechanism (detects damaged or lost
frames)
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Physical Addresses (Mac)

• Physical Address burned on the card
• Unique address over the world
• 48-bit (6-byte) written as 12 hexadecimal digits;
• every byte (2 hexadecimal digits) is separated by a colon

• Physical addresses can be either

• Unicast
• Multicast
• Broadcast

• To check your physical address: -

• Ipconfig /all
• GetMac
 Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol
Architecture)
• Internet / Network protocol Layer
(IP Layer)
• Provides connectivity and path
selection between two hosts (Source to
Destination)
• Routing of data (Provide mechanism to
transmit data over independent
networks that are linked together)
• Logical addressing IPV4 , IPV6
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Internet Protocol (IP V4)

• Uniquely identify each device on an IP network layer.
• Some times we called it the logical address
• Every host (computer, networking device, peripheral) must have
a unique address at the same network
• The IP address 32 bit divided into 4 octets each octet 8 bit
1 octet = 8 bit each represents from 0 to 255 separated with dots

•The address space of IPv4 is 232 or 4,294,967,296

 Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

PUBLIC IP ADDRESSES (Real IP) Private IP Addresses (Local IP)

Class Private Address Range

A 10.0.0.0 to 10.255.255.255

B 172.16.0.0 to 172.31.255.255

192.168.0.0 to 192.168.255
C
255

▪ Nat is used to Translate the private IP address to public IP addresses.

Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• How to assign IP address to device

• Manually
• Automatic ( By DHCP )
• APIPA (Random /Rang : 169.254.X.X)

• To find your private IP

• Ipconfig - Ipconfig /all - Ipconfig /release - Ipconfig /renew

• ICMP (Ping) To test connectivity between Hosts

• Ping IP
• Ping URL
• Ping IP -l -n -t
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Internet Protocol (IP V6)

• 128-bit address, provides approximately
(340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,
211,456) = 340 billion billion billion
billion, addresses)
• Represented as eight groups, separated
by colons, of four hexadecimal digits. The
full representation may be simplified by
several methods of notation;

2001:0db8:0000:0000:0000:8a2e:0370:7334
=
2001:db8::8a2e:370:7334
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Internet Of Things (IOT)

• Aims connect all devices to the existing
Internet infrastructure.
• "things" that sense and collect data and
send it to the internet.
• (Eg:- coffee maker, A.C, Washing Machine,
Ceiling Fan, lights , any thing ) having
sensors can be connected with internet.
• PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS:-
• Smart Homes -Smart Cities-Energy -
Environment monitoring- healthcare-
Management
 Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Transport Layer

TCP UDP
Transmission Control Protocol) User Datagram Protocol
Reliable (Acknowledgement) Unreliable (Best –Effort delivery)
Connection oriented (synchronization) Connectionless (no notification)
Full duplex Full duplex
Error control(Error checking(checksum ) Perform very limited error checking
Data-recovery features Has no Data-recovery features
E-mail Voice Streaming
File sharing Video Streaming
Downloading
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Transport Layer addressing (Port Numbers.)

• ( ICANN) controls the port numbers.
• Well Known ports
• permanent used numbers.
Range from 0 to 1,023 are assigned and controlled by
ICANN
• Registered ports
• Range from 1,024 to 49,151 not assigned or
controlled by ICANN
but can be registered at ICANN to avoid duplication
• Dynamic ports
• Range from 49,152 to 65,535 are neither controlled
nor registered
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Application Layer
• Communication between processes or
applications

• Internet Services (Client/Web Server)

• The World Wide Web: HTTP
• Naming Service: DNS
• File Transfer: FTP
• Telnet Service
• Electronic Mail service: IMAP, POP3, SMTP
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• URL is Universal Resource Locator

• Protocol : HTTP, HTTPS or FTP

• Host : is the domain name of the computer on which the information is located .
• Port: The URL can optionally contain the port number of the server
• Path: is the pathname of the file where the information is located.

• HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)

• Supports the delivery of web pages to the client
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• DNS (Domain Name Servers)

• A way to translate human-readable names into IP
addresses
• How the client get the website
• 1- check the cash
• 2- check the hosts file
• 3- Ask DNS server
• List of Top Level Domains (TLDs)
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

• a transmission protocol that provides reliable
data transfer between hosts
• FTP Client
• Use Internet Browser as FTP client.
• Using MS Windows built-in FTP client
• Third party programs “cute FTP”
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Telnet /SSH or RDP

• Telnet/SSH is a user command and an underlying
TCP/IP protocol for accessing remote computers.
• Telnet/SSH, an administrator can access
someone else's computer remotely
• Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a Microsoft
proprietary protocol that enables remote
connections to other computers,
Session 1 (TCP/IP Protocol Architecture)

• Mail Server and Clients

• Mail Clients
• Web based : Hotmail ,gmail
• Non web based : Microsoft Outlook
• Mail Protocols
• SMTP (send mail transfer Protocol)
• send messages back and forth to other Mail Servers or Email Clients
• POP3 “Post Office Protocol version 3”
• the Email Client contacts the Mail Server to collect email messages
• Download messages on the hard disk
• can work Offline
• Keep the user’s quota on the server
• IMAP4 “Internet Message Access Protocol version 4”
• Retrieve only message header
 Session 1 Practices

• Find your mac address

• Ipconfig /all
• Get mac
• Find your real IP addresses
• https://www.whatismyip.com/
• Find your private IP addresses
• Ipconfig
• Ipconfig /all
• Ipconfig /release
• Ipconfig /renew
• ARP -a
• Find current session and ports on your device
• Netstat -n
• Netstat -a
• Find The IP of the domain Yahoo.com
• Nslookup Yahoo.com
Session 2 (Cyber Security Essentials)
• Session Outlines
• Information Security Goals
• Confidentiality
• Integrity
• Availability
• Risks & Threats
• Threats & Vulnerabilities
• Attackers methodology & Methods
• Malware Types
• Security Defenses
• Firewalls (Static & Dynamic firewalls)
• IDS /IPS
• VPN
• Proxy
• Next generation Firewalls
• Encryption
• Symmetric & Asymmetric Key Cryptography
 Session 2 (Security Goals)
• Cyber Security
• protect systems, networks, programs, devices and
data from cyber attacks
• Security is a shared responsibility that each person
must accept when they connect to the network.
• Security Goals Technically Defined
• Confidentiality
• Ensuring that information is not revealed to
unauthorized persons
• Integrity
• Ensuring consistency of data and it should be possible
to detect any modification of data
• Availability
• Ensuring that legitimate users are not denied access to
information and resources
 Session 2 (Risks & Threats )
• Focus of Security is Risk
• Risk = Threat x Vulnerabilities
• Vulnerability is the degree of weakness which is found in every network and device.

• Threats is A person, thing, event or idea which poses danger to an asset in terms of that
asset’s confidentiality, integrity, availability or legitimate use

• It's impossible to totally eliminate risk & There is NO simple solution to securing information

• Security 99.9 % Not found Why ?

• This can be seen through the different types of attacks that users face today.
• New technologies / applications
• New Vulnerabilities
• the difficulties in defending against these attacks
 Session 2 (Attackers Methods)

• Attack: Any attempt to destroy, expose, alter, disable, steal or

breaking into the information or breaking the systems or gain
unauthorized access to or make unauthorized use of an asset

• Passive Attack
• Difficult to detect, because the attacker isn’t actively sending traffic
(malicious or otherwise)
• Example: An attacker capturing packets from the network and
attempting to decrypt them
• Active Attack
• Easier to detect, because the attacker is actively sending traffic that
can be detected.
• An attacker might launch an active attack in an attempt to access
information or to modify data on a system.
 Session 2 (Attackers Methods)

• Social engineering
• is a term that refers to the ability of something or
someone to influence the behavior of a group of
people.

• PHISHING ATTACK:
• A fake web page which looks exactly like a
popular website such ( facebook, twitter, Gmail ,
paypal , bank page ) to persuade you to enter
information identity such as username ,
passwords and credit cards details
• the hacker records the username and password
and then tries that information on the real site.
 Session 2 (Attackers Methods)
• HIJACK ATTACK
• a hacker takes over a session between you
and another individual and disconnects the
other individual from the communication. You
still believe that you are talking to the original
party and may send private information to
the hacker by accident.

• Insider Attack
• involves someone from the inside, such as a
disgruntled employee, attacking the network.
Session 2 (Attackers Methods)
• PASSWORD ATTACK
• An attacker tries to crack the passwords stored in a network
account database or a password-protected file.
• Dictionary attack
• Brute-force attack
• Hybrid attack.
 Session 2 (Malicious Software (Malware )types))

• Backdoor or Trapdoor
• Secret entry point into a program ,Have been commonly used by
developers
• Can’t be removed or scanned and the only way is to uninstall sw or
format the system
• Viruses
• A virus is malicious software that is attached to another program to
execute a particular unwanted function on a user's workstation.
• Both propagates itself & carries a payload
• Carries code to make copies of itself

• Trojan Horse
• program with hidden side-effects which is usually superficially attractive
eg game, software upgrade etc .
• allows attacker to indirectly gain access they do not have directly
• used to propagate a virus/worm or install a backdoor
• Open some ports or pass some malicious files
 Session 2 (Malicious Software
• Worms
(Malware )types)
• Replicating but not infecting program Typically spreads over a
network Using users distributed privileges or by exploiting system
vulnerabilities Widely used by hackers to create zombie pc's,
subsequently used for further attacks, especially dos
• Major issue is lack of security of permanently connected systems
• Zombie
• Program which secretly takes over another networked computer
then uses it to indirectly launch attacks
• Often used to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks
• Ransomware
• Malware that locks a computer or device or encrypts data (Crypto
ransomware) on an infected endpoint with an encryption key ,only
the attacker knows the key the data unusable until the victim pays
a ransom (usually cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin).
 Session 2 (Malicious Software
(Malware )types)
• DoS Attack
• Denial of service is about without permission
knocking off services,
used for crashing the whole system.
• This kind of attacks are easy to launch and it is hard
to protect a system against them.
• Consume host resources
• Memory
• Processor cycles
• Consume network resources
• Bandwidth
• Dos Attack (Ping of Death)
• DDoS Attack
• A distributed denial of service attack uses multiple
machines to prevent the legitimate use of a service.
• TCP SYN flood
 Session 2 (Malicious Software
(Malware )types)
• Spam
• Spam is a serious network threat that can overload ISPs, email
servers and individual end-user systems. A person or organization
responsible for sending spam is called a spammer. Spammers often
make use of unsecured email servers to forward email. Spammers
can use hacking techniques, such as viruses, worms and Trojan
horses to take control of home computers.
• Spyware
• Spyware is any program that gathers personal information from your
computer without your permission or knowledge. This information is
sent to advertisers or others on the Internet and can include
passwords and account numbers.
• Tracking Cookies
• Cookies are a form of spyware but are not always bad. They are
used to record information about an Internet user when they visit
websites
Session 2 (Attacks Mitigation)
• Firewall
• A Firewall is one of the most effective security tools available for
protecting internal network users from external threats.
• A firewall resides between two or more networks and controls the traffic
between them as well as helps prevent unauthorized access
• Static Packet Filtering (stateless firewall )
• - Prevents or allows access based on IP or MAC addresses.
• Dynamic Packet Filtering (state full firewall)
• Incoming packets must be legitimate responses to requests
from internal hosts. Unsolicited packets are blocked unless
permitted specifically. SPI can also include the capability to
recognize and filter out specific types of attacks such as DoS.
Session 2 (Attack Mitigation)
• Proxy Server
• A computer system (or an application program) that intercepts
internal user requests and then processes that request on behalf of
the user
• Goal is to hide the IP address of client systems inside the secure
network

• VPN
• It Tunnel the traffic between the Two Sides of Network
• Kinds:
• Remote Access VPN
• Site to Site VPN
 Session 2 (Attack Mitigation
)
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
• NIDS:
• Watch the Network Traffic and if there is Intrusion it
Detects that there is Bad traffic Flow.
• it send alarms and logs
• NIPS:
• Stops the traffic if it detects that there is intrusion
• Signature-based: look for the perfect match
• Next generation Firewall (NGFW)
• is,a “deep-packet inspection firewall that moves beyond
port/protocol inspection and blocking to add application-level
inspection, intrusion prevention, and bringing intelligence from
outside the firewall.”
 Session 2 (Encryption)
• Encryption
• encryption is the process of encoding
information. This process converts the original
representation of the information, known as
plaintext, into an alternative form known as
ciphertext.
• Unencrypted data, called plaintext, is sent
through an encryption algorithm to generate
a ciphertext. A key is used for encryption.

• in a symmetric encryption algorithm, the

same key is also used for decryption. (Not
secure) needs to be a secure way for the two
sides to have the same key
 Session2 Practices

• How to use your local firewall to block a port and stop

DOS attack from a zombie device
Session 3 (Distributed Systems)
• Session Outlines
• Distributed Systems overview
• Definition and Basic Terminologies
• Why build a distributed system?
• Types of Distributed Systems
• The 4 Distributed Systems architecture
• Distributed System Examples
• Cloud computing
• Cloud computing service models
• Cloud computing deployment models
 Session 3 (Distributed System)
• Distributed Systems
• Is a group of computers working together
as to appear as a single computer to the
end-user.
 Session 3 (Distributed System)
• Centralized system VS Distributed system
• Centralized system: State stored on a single computer
○ Simpler
○ Easier to understand
○ Can be faster for a single user

● Distributed system: State divided over multiple

computers
○ More robust(can tolerate failures)
○ More scalable (often supports many users)
○ More complex
 Session 3 (Distributed System)
• Why build a distributed system?
• One interface to the end-user.
• Performance
• maximize resources and information while preventing failures
• Reliability
• if one system fails, it won't affect the availability of the service
• Dependency on cloud
• Scaling

• Distributed system is growing…They are everywhere

Networks , Could Computing, Distributed Database Systems
 Session 3 (Distributed System)
• Distributed systems must have :
• Network that connects all components
(Hardware, or Software)
• Messages passed between machines contain forms of data
that the systems want to share like databases, objects, and
files.

• The way the messages are communicated reliably whether

it’s sent, received, acknowledged or how a node retries on
failure is an important feature of a distributed system.

• Distributed systems were created out of necessity as services

and applications needed to scale and new machines
needed to be added and managed.
 Session 3 (Types of Distributed
System)
• Four architecture types :
1. Client-server:
• a server as a shared resource like (a printer,
database, or a web server)
• Multiple clients use the shared resource.
2. Three-tier:
- clients no longer need to be intelligent
- can rely on a middle tier to do the processing and
decision making.
- Most of the first web applications fall under this
category.
-The middle tier could be called an agent that
receives requests from clients, and then forwards it
on to the servers.
 Session 3 (Types of Distributed
System)
3- Multi-tier (n-tier)
• Enterprise web services first created n-tier or multi-tier systems
architectures.
• -This popularized the application servers that contain the business
logic
- n-tier interacts both with the data tiers and presentation tiers.
- Ex : google.com

4- Peer-to-peer :
• No centralized or special machine that does the heavy lifting and
intelligent work in this architecture.
• All the decision making and responsibilities are split up amongst the
machines involved and each could take on client or server roles.
• Blockchain is a good example of this.
Session 3 (Distributed System Examples)

• Domain Name System (DNS)

• Distributed lookup table of hostname to IP address
• Facebook & Google use distributed systems extensively
• Massive scale
• Fast enough
• Very reliable
• Email servers (SMTP)
• Cloud Computing
• Virtualization
 Session 3 (Virtualization)
• Virtualization
• Is a technology that run multiple same or different operating systems
which is completely isolated from each other
• Example: run both windows and Linux on the same machine

• Virtualization is different from Dual Boot ?

• Dual Boot run only one OS at the same time Virtualization run
multiple OS at the same time
• Virtualization Benefits
• Consolidation
• Redundancy
• Legacy hardware
• Migration
• Centralized management
 Session 3 (Cloud computing )
• Cloud computing
• A pool of resources that can be rapidly provisioned in an
automated, on-demand manner.
• Value of cloud computing is :
• Economies of scale
• Elastic enough to scale with the needs of your organization.
• Cost and operational benefits
• Easily accessed by users no matter where they reside
Session 3 (Cloud computing service
models)
• Cloud computing service models
 Session 3 (Cloud computing service
models)
• Software as a service (SaaS).
• Customers are provided access to an application running on a cloud infrastructure.
• but the customer has no knowledge of, and does not manage or control, the underlying
cloud infrastructure.
• Platform as a service (PaaS).
• Customers can deploy supported applications onto the provider’s cloud infrastructure,
• but the customer has no knowledge of, and does not manage or control, the underlying
cloud infrastructure.
• The company owns the deployed applications and data, and it is therefore responsible for the
security of those applications and data.
• Infrastructure as a service (IaaS).
• Customers can provision processing, storage, networks, and other computing resources, and
deploy and run operating systems and applications.
• the customer has no knowledge of, and does not manage or control, the underlying cloud
infrastructure. The customer has control over operating systems, storage, and deployed
applications, along with some networking components (for example, host firewalls).
• The company owns the deployed applications and data, and it is therefore responsible for the
security of those applications and data.
 Session 3 (Cloud computing
deployment model)
• Public.
• A cloud infrastructure that is open to use by the general public. It’s owned, managed, and
operated by a third party (or parties), and it exists on the cloud provider’s premises.

• Community.
• A cloud infrastructure that is used exclusively by a specific group of organizations.

• Private.
• A cloud infrastructure that is used exclusively by a single organization. It may be owned, managed,
and operated by the organization or a third party (or a combination of both), and it may exist on
premises or off premises.

• Hybrid.
• A cloud infrastructure that comprises two or more of the aforementioned deployment models,
bound by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (for
example, fail over to a secondary data center for disaster recovery or content delivery networks
across multiple clouds).
 Session 3 Practices

• Use the Vmware Workstation tool to host the two different

OS on your machine
Thank You