What you'll learn?

  • Identifying security threats
  • Ardent internal systems and services
  • Hardening internetwork devices and services
  • Securing network communications
  • Managing a PKI
  • Managing certificates
  • Enforcing an organizational security policy
  • Monitoring the security infrastructure

Description

Security+™A CompTIA Certification is the primary course you will need to take if your job responsibilities include securing network services, network devices, and network traffic. It also prepares you to take the CompTIA Security+ examination (exam number SY0-101). In this course, you will build on your knowledge and professional experience with computer hardware, operating systems, and networks as you acquire the specific skills required to implement basic security services on any type of computer network.

Audience :

The Security+ Certification offering is designed for the individual interested in obtaining CompTIA's vendor-neutral, industry-standard, entry-level IT Security credential, in order to pursue or advance a career as a computer security professional, or enhance any IT career role that has security implications.

Topics :

Authentication

Kerberos

CHAP

Certificates

Username/Password

Tokens

Multi-Factor

Mutual Authentication

Biometrics

Attacks

DOS/DDOS

Back Door

Spoofing

Man in the Middle

Replay

TCP/IP Hijacking

Weak Keys

Social Engineering

Password Guessing

Software Exploitation

Viruses, Trojan Horses, Logic Bombs

Worms

Remote Access

802.1x

VPN

RADIUS

TACACS/+

L2TP/PPTP

SSH

IPSEC

Vulnerabilities

Email

S/MIME

PGP

Vulnerabilities

SPAM

Hoaxes

Web

SSL/TLS

HTTP/S

Instant Messaging

Vulnerabilities

File Transfer

S/FTP

Blind FTP/Anonymous

File sharing

Vulnerabilities

Packet Sniffing

Wireless (Awareness, conceptual knowledge and understanding)

WTLS

802.11x

WEP/WAP

Vulnerabilities

Hoaxes

Devices (Awareness, conceptual knowledge and understanding)

Firewalls, Routers, Switches

Wireless

Modems

RAS

Telecom/PBX

VPN

IDS

Network

Monitoring/Diagnostic

Workstations

Servers

Mobile Devices

Media

Coax

UTP/STP

Fiber

Removable media

Security Topologies (Awareness, conceptual knowledge and understanding)

Security Zones

DMZ

Intranet

Extranet

VLANs

NAT

Tunneling

Intrusion Detection (Awareness, conceptual knowledge and understanding)

Network Based

Host Based

Honey Pots

Incident Response

Security Baselines

OS/NOS Hardening (Concepts and processes)

Network Hardening

Application Hardening

Updates (Hotfixes, Service Packs, Patches)

Basics of Cryptography

Algorithms

Concepts of using cryptography

PKI

Standards and Protocols

Key Management/Certificate Lifecycle

Physical Security

Access Control

Physical Barriers

Biometrics

Social Engineering

Environment

Wireless Cells

Location

Shielding

Fire Suppression

Disaster Recovery

Backups

Secure Recovery

Prerequisities :

Recommended Knowledge :

A+ and/or Network+ certification or equivalent knowledge, and some practical industry experience in networking are strongly recommended.

Recommended Course(s) :

Category :

  • Security

Training Materials :

CompTIA Press

Labs :

This course includes several labs to ensure you will gain the targeted skills and experience.

Credential :

This Course prepares Security+ certification candidate for the CompTIA Security+ Certification exam, the Security+ course of study is also appropriate as a prerequisite to the CISSP or SCNP course of study.

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