This course provides an overview of the security administration and fundamentals
of designing security architectures. Topics include networking technologies, TCP/IP
concepts, protocols, network traffic analysis, monitoring, and security best practices.
Upon completion, students should be able to identify normal network traffic using
network analysis tools and design basic security defenses. The course is designed to
help prepare for the TestOut Security Pro certification exam.
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Course Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:
- » Demonstrate methods for keeping networks and their computers secure
- » Show an understanding of the facilities for securing networks, including protection against viruses, worms, malware, and OS and application exploits
- » Implement secure access through authentication and encryption
- » Implement security policies
- » Provide common application security, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, Instant Messaging, and other user and system accessible protocols with their implementation or protocol design weaknesses
- » Ensure continuing security, detect active attacks through network traffic analysis, system and application log monitoring, and auditing. Track the warning signs of a problem or attack
- » Discuss disaster planning and recovery issues such as redundancy, fault tolerance, power, and environmental conditioning, backups, recovery strategies, and clustering
- » Troubleshoot security vulnerabilities. Demonstrate skills in penetration testing, by looking for and identifying weaknesses in configurations for operating systems, applications, firewalls, network devices, policies, and procedures in a given environment
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