Network Security Overview

Overview/Description
To describe fundamentals of security for defending your network

Target Audience
Any individual with technical security responsibilities, including system/network administrators and security officers/administrators; managers or technical staff who wish to demonstrate a technical understanding of a broad range of security-related issues and technologies

Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of networking internetworking concepts and associated hardware

Expected Duration
185 Minutes

Objectives:

Network Security Overview

  • explain the underlying concepts and principles of security management.
  • describe the fundamentals of Defense in Depth.
  • describe some real-life information security defense failures.
  • define security policy and identify issue-specific security policy documents.
  • design a security policy document.
  • discuss the responsibilities of users and correct user response to security incidents.
  • describe how passwords are stored and explain why they are vulnerable to attack.
  • explain why a strong password policy is important and what can be done to protect password files on UNIX and Windows systems.
  • use the password cracking utility LC4 and employ it to audit passwords from a number of locations.


    • Course Number: 84585_eng