Computer Network Security

Ashworth University
Norcross, Georgia, United States

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' The Computer Network Security Course is comprised of 13 comprehensive lessons. They are easy to follow, yet challenging and stimulating at the same time. Each lesson begins with a subject matter preview and objectives, an introductory note from your instructor and a vocabulary builder of new words and terms.

Next comes the reading assignment. Practice exercises help you check and review what you’ve learned. At the end of the lesson is an open-book exam, which you may take online.

Lesson Descriptions
Lesson 1: An Insecure World. Primary types of security threats facing computer networks; the three broad classes of network security attacks; how a Denial of Service attack can bring down a network; hacker types; hardware security devices; approaches to network security; security resources.

Lesson 2: Under Attack. Ring topology; ARCNet, FDDI and token networks; structured cable; horizontal cabling; fire ratings of network cable; how patch panels work; the cable installation process; advantages of a switched network; troubleshooting techniques; recent viruses and worms.

Lesson 3: Hiding Behind Your Walls. What a firewall does; the four basic types of firewalls; alternative ways to implement a firewall; difference between a NAT and a proxy server; popular brands of firewalls; available services that firewalls offer.

Lesson 4: Secret Codes & Honey Pots. How intrusion detection systems work; popular IDS strategies; trapping hackers with a ‘honey pot� history of encryption; types of encryption; decryption technologies.

Lesson 5: Securing the Ship. Encapsulation; how a VPN works; encryption protocols for VPN; IPSEC; creating users and groups in Windows 2003; the password policy; securing the registry of a Windows server; how to start and shut down computer services; encrypting files on a Windows computer; security templates.

Lesson 6: Eliminating Worms & Spies. How a virus spreads; well-known viruses, worms and virus hoaxes; virus scanning technologies; how to react to a network that is plagued by a virus; identifying a Trojan horse; the negative impact of spyware and adware on computers and how to alleviate these threats; anti-spyware applications.

Lesson 7: Assessing the Danger. The components of a good user security policy; the makeup of a proper system administration policy and consequences of non-adherence; access control; the fundamentals of evaluating and assessing a network from a security point of view; how to probe a network for security weaknesses; documenting security evaluations.
Lesson 8: This is War. FCC brands that are reserved for wireless LANs; assigned compliance specifications of the 802.11 standards and supplements; BBS vs IBBS; active and passive scanning; authentication and association; client station roaming across multiple access points; compensated wireless traffic for stations in power saving mode.

Lesson 9: Hardening Network Infrastructure. Criteria for evaluating a network design; six steps to ensuring security in a new network; the purpose, role and elements of a well-designed security policy; why security policies sometimes don’t work in organizations.

Lesson 10: You are the Gatekeeper. Advantages and disadvantages of server-based content filtering, client-based content filtering and gateway content filtering; implementing web content filtering; email, spam and virus filtering; multi-homed vs. dual firewalls; securing a network perimeter.

Lesson 11: Auditing Your Security Policy. How to integrate VLANs into a network’s security structure; modular components of an enterprise network design; reviewing security policy; performing a security audit; tools and utilities utilized in a security audit; justifying the cost of security.

Lesson 12: Right Out of the Box. Seven key tasks that every administrator needs to implement on day one; how and why to segment a network; best practices for segmenting a network; how firewalls and VLANs contribute to network segmentation.

Lesson 13: Under Lock & Key. Today’s key cryptography choices; types of data that require encryption; encrypting databases; the points at which encryption takes place; encryption standards; IPSec; criteria for selecting an authentication method; using encryption to protect Internet traffic.

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Phone:1.800.957.5412

School Address:

Ashworth University
430 Technology Parkway
Norcross, Georgia 30092
USA

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