The document discusses the objectives and syllabus of a Cryptography and Network Security course. The objectives are to understand access control models, encryption techniques, block ciphers like DES and AES, public key cryptography, message authentication, hash functions, and web, email and firewall security. The syllabus covers topics like classical encryption techniques, symmetric cipher models, security services like confidentiality, authentication, access control and availability, and security attacks. It also discusses trends in internet vulnerabilities and security incidents reported to CERT.