Network Security Fundamentals

Network Security Fundamentals

In the Network Security Fundamentals course, students will gain an understanding of the fundamental tenants of network security and review the general concepts involved in maintaining a secure network computing environment. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to describe general network security concepts and implement basic network security configuration techniques.

Course objectives:

• Identify the common enterprise network devices.
• Differentiate between routed and routing protocols.
• Recognize the various types of area networks and topologies.
• Describe the Domain Name System DNS, FQDN, and IoT.
• Recognize decimal binary, and hexadecimal conversion methods.
• Describe the structure and fields of an IP header, IPV4, and IPV6 addresses.
• Subnet an IPV4 Class C addressing scheme and configure an IP address on the firewall.
• Review the four DHCP process messages and Network Address Translation (NAT).
• Setup the firewall as a DHCP server and test the DHCP client.
• Recognize packet encapsulation and the lifecycle process.
• Identify protocols and define the OSI and TCP model layers.
• Review the transport layer protocols, ports, and packet filtering procedures.
• Create and analyze packet captures using Wireshark.
• Identify common network security encryption algorithms and key management concepts.
• Recognize symmetric/asymmetric key rotation techniques and PKI.
• Generate a Self-Signed Root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate.
• Create a decryption policy on the firewall to decrypt SSH traffic and SSL traffic.
• Describe the benefits of the next generation firewall single pass architecture.
• Identify the NGFW App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID and deployment options.
• Explore the five steps required to implement a NGFW zero-trust environment.
• Configure the NGFW to monitor, forward, and backup system logs (Syslog).

Course Modules

Module 1: The Connected Globe
Module 2: IP Addressing
Module 3: Packet Encapsulation
Module 4: Network and Endpoint Security
Module 5: Network Security Principles

Scope

• Level: Introductory
• Duration: 3 credits – 45 contact hours
• Format: Instructor Led or Self-Paced

Target Audience

Entry level candidates in the Cybersecurity workforce.
Anyone who participates in Internet activities.

Prerequisites

Successful completion of Cybersecurity Foundation or comparable experience. Students are expected to have basic Internet and application software skills.

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