Course description
Plan IT security in the company.
Why enrol on this course?
Who can take this course?
Employed, self-employed or unemployed people who want to improve their skills.
Free course
Subsidised training, at no cost to the student.
Online course
Study from home with a flexible format.
Certified course
When you finish you will be able to certify the training you have completed.
Course content
1. WEAKNESSES, THREATS AND ATTACKS
1.1. Types of attackers.
1.2. Attacker motivations.
1.3. Methodology of a determined attacker.
1.4. Common vulnerabilities and attacks.
1.5. Hacking tools.
1.6. Social engineering.
1.7. Attack prevention.
1.8. Contingency response.
2. NETWORK SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.
2.1. Designing and implementing security policies.
3. CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIES.
3.1. Symmetric encryption.
3.2. Asymmetric encryption.
3.3. Digital signatures.
3.4. Digital certificates.
3.5. SSL/TLS: the multi-purpose encryption tool.
3.6. Secure browsing: HTTPS.
4. AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS.
4.1. Identification technologies.
4.2. PAP and CHAP.
4.3. RADIUS.
4.4. The 802.1X protocol.
4.5. The EAP protocol suite: LEAP, PEAP, EAP-TLS.
4.6. Biometric systems.
5. VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS.
5.1. Benefits and features.
5.2. IPsec.
5.3. VPNs with SSL/TLS.
6. FIREWALLS
6.1. Firewall architecture
6.2. Stateless packet filtering
6.3. Proxy servers
6.4. Dynamic or "stateful" filtering
6.5. Next-generation firewalls
6.6. Advanced features
7. AUTOMATED INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION (IDS-IPS)
7.1. IDS architecture
7.2. Software tools
7.3. Catching intruders with honeypots.
1.1. Types of attackers.
1.2. Attacker motivations.
1.3. Methodology of a determined attacker.
1.4. Common vulnerabilities and attacks.
1.5. Hacking tools.
1.6. Social engineering.
1.7. Attack prevention.
1.8. Contingency response.
2. NETWORK SECURITY ADMINISTRATION.
2.1. Designing and implementing security policies.
3. CRYPTOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGIES.
3.1. Symmetric encryption.
3.2. Asymmetric encryption.
3.3. Digital signatures.
3.4. Digital certificates.
3.5. SSL/TLS: the multi-purpose encryption tool.
3.6. Secure browsing: HTTPS.
4. AUTHENTICATION SYSTEMS.
4.1. Identification technologies.
4.2. PAP and CHAP.
4.3. RADIUS.
4.4. The 802.1X protocol.
4.5. The EAP protocol suite: LEAP, PEAP, EAP-TLS.
4.6. Biometric systems.
5. VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS.
5.1. Benefits and features.
5.2. IPsec.
5.3. VPNs with SSL/TLS.
6. FIREWALLS
6.1. Firewall architecture
6.2. Stateless packet filtering
6.3. Proxy servers
6.4. Dynamic or "stateful" filtering
6.5. Next-generation firewalls
6.6. Advanced features
7. AUTOMATED INTRUSION DETECTION AND PREVENTION (IDS-IPS)
7.1. IDS architecture
7.2. Software tools
7.3. Catching intruders with honeypots.