At Course Completion, the student will be enabled 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. |