Fundamentals of Network Security/CompTIA Security+ Training

This four-day, instructor-led course provides students with the knowledge and skills to begin supporting network security within an organization. Students who complete this course will be able to identify security threats and vulnerabilities, and help respond to and recover from security incidents.

This course will cover security concepts that are prerequisites for attending other Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) courses for security specialists and help prepare students for the CompTIA Security+ exam.

This course has been approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC) for the CompTIA Security+ certification. The CAQC program assures students that all test objectives for the CompTIA Security+ certification exam are covered in the course materials.

Although the course focuses on Microsoft product- and technology-specific implementation of security concepts, many of these same concepts can be applied to other technologies.

CompTIA Security+™ and Your Career

CompTIA Security+ validates your commitment to security. Business owners across all industries want to hire professionals who can keep their networks secure. A CompTIA Security+ credential on your resume proves to employers your ability to keep their information safe from network security breaches.

Key benefits for becoming CompTIA Security+ certified

• A solid credential that can be utilized in any industry.
  • U.S. Dept. of Defense and Directive 8570: U.S. DOD employees or contractors engaged in work related to information security are required to be certified, as specified in a list of certifications included in the Directive 8570 manual, and CompTIA Security+ is one of the designated certifications.
  • Healthcare industry and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act): This Congressional Act of 1996 requires that standards be met in the security and privacy of data in the healthcare industry. One way that healthcare companies can demonstrate their compliance with the standards in this act is to verify certification of their network and information security staff.
  • Financial industry and web-based attacks: The financial industry and its customers are vulnerable to attacks designed to gain access to personal account information. Those who provide network security are critical in this business, and the CompTIA Security+ certification is an assurance of baseline competency.
• Validation of achievement in an industry-valued skill.
  • All industries need trained security professionals to combat hackers and security threats. CompTIA Security+ shows employers you can maintain the integrity of their business communications, infrastructure and operations.
• Viable career path, leading to higher level positions.
  • 74 percent of IT managers say a CompTIA certification is an important factor in considering an employee for a promotion.

(Source: CompTIA)

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Explain common attacks against network assets, the associated threats and vulnerabilities, and what network security personnel do to secure assets.
• Explain how to use cryptography to help protect information and how to choose an appropriate encryption method for an organization.
• Implement security-enhanced computing baselines in an organization.
• Help protect information in an organization by using authentication and access control.
• Deploy and manage certificates.
• Help protect transmission of data by identifying threats to network devices and implementing security for common data transmission, remote access, and wireless network traffic.
• Help protect Web servers against common attacks and configure security for Web browsers.
• Help protect e-mail messages and instant messaging from common security threats.
• Identify common security threats and vulnerabilities to directory services and DNS, and then apply security methods to help protect them.
• Identify network perimeter threats and monitor perimeter security for a network.
• Identify types of security policies to manage operational security, and then use these policies to ensure compliance by users in an organization.
• Preserve business continuity by implementing a security-enhanced disaster recovery strategy, communicating risks to others, and performing secure backup and recovery.
• Identify, respond to, and assist in the formal investigation of security incidents.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you must have at least one year experience administering Windows 2000 Server or higher.

About the Security Instructor

TBD