The Network Security Essentials training course is designed to provide Network Administrators with an awareness of security-related issues and the essential skills they need to implement security in a given network. You will learn to work with various protocols, and create security in router-based networks and across different platforms. You will also use some of the techniques that network attackers commonly use to learn on how to best stop them.
By attending Network Security Essentials workshop, delegates will learn to:
- Identify the basics of network security
- Define the TCP/IP layered architectures and work with advanced IP addressing protocols and commands
- Describe and work with IP protocols and packets at various levels
- Create router security using the functions of Access Control Lists
- Secure Windows computers, and test security effectiveness
- Secure Linux computers and test security effectiveness
- Define the common Internet components and identify techniques used in Web hacking
- Examine and work with the common techniques used to attack networks and specific operating systems
It is assumed that the Network Administrator will have experience with DOS, Windows (client and server), and Linux environments, and have taken the following courses or have equivalent experience:
- CompTIA A+ Certification
- CompTIA Network+ Certification
This Network Security Essentials class is intended for Network Administrators responsible for maintaining a wide range of network technologies.