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802 IT Project Manager KSAT Intermediate NCWF Journey
- 31 Courses | 34h 5m 35s
This journey will help directly manages information technology projects.
802 IT Project Manager KSAT Intermediate
This journey will help directly manages information technology projects.
- 31 Courses | 34h 5m 35s
COURSES INCLUDED
CCSP 2022: Operational Controls & Standards
An integral part of a Certified Cloud Security Professional's role is to implement operational controls and standards, like those from Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) 20000-1. In this course, you will discover common governance processes. Begin by exploring configuration management and change management to ensure accurate information is available and maximize successful service changes. Then, focus on how to keep business functions maintained in the event of a disaster through continuity management. Learn how to protect your organization with a comprehensive information security management plan and how to set clear business-based targets for service performance with service level management strategies. Next, investigate the differences between incident and problem management, and release and deployment management. Finally, examine availability and capacity management to ensure that IT services meet the needs of customers and users. This is one of a collection of courses that fully prepares the learner for the ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) 2022 exam.
10 videos |
31m
Assessment
Badge
CCSP 2022: Legal Requirements, Privacy Issues, & Risk Management in the Cloud
Cloud computing presents a number of unique risks and issues since it routinely crosses many geographic and political boundaries, and international legislation, regulations, and privacy requirements can conflict with one another. In this course, examine the legal and privacy issues that a Certified Cloud Security Professional can expect to face. Begin by investigating conflicting international laws, eDiscovery, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) guidance. Then, focus on personal privacy issues related to protected health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), and privacy impact assessments (PIAs), and compare privacy requirements including ISO/IEC 27018, Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Finally, explore risk management by assessing risk management programs and studying regulatory transparency requirements, including breach notification, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and GDPR. This is one of a collection of courses that fully prepares the learner for the ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) 2022 exam.
10 videos |
25m
Assessment
Badge
CompTIA Cloud Essentials+: Cloud Governance & Securing Data
Cloud consumers look for cloud services that follow regulations and core principles for maintaining data security and confidentiality. In this course, you'll investigate the cloud computing policy, which protects sensitive personal and confidential business data. You'll examine standard operating features, resource management, and security implementation checklist items and best practices for cloud computing. You'll then practice implementing policy-based access control for cloud computing. Moving on, you'll outline how to implement data sovereignty. You'll explore the international cloud computing standards, integrated vulnerability assessment solutions, and data security and privacy implementation in cloud computing. Finally, you'll outline how to implement and secure data and ensure availability in the cloud. You'll study the layers of security that can be implemented in the cloud, the cloud identity logs that help track events impacting cloud environments, and the OWASP Top 10 data-level authorization methods used to secure resources.
18 videos |
1h 41m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Architecture & Models
The cloud has various deployment and service models that can help your organization design and create your very own cloud strategy based on needs. First, you'll learn about the available cloud deployment models such as public, private, hybrid, community, and virtual public clouds, as well as multi-cloud and multitenancy environments. Next, you'll examine cloud service models such as Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Software as a Service. Finally, you'll learn about advanced topics such as the Internet of Things, serverless computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the shared responsibility model. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos |
1h 10m
Assessment
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Cloud Future: Adapting Cloud Innovation
The impact of future trends allow you to recognize how to build cloud-based applications and architectures that can adopt and adapt to emerging trends, technologies, and processes. In this course, you'll explore future trends in cloud computing and emerging technologies that can help with analyzing their impact on existing cloud operations and practices. You'll learn about solutioning strategies and resource types that can help with adopting emerging technologies and trending features in existing CloudOps architectures. Next, you'll examine cloud application design considerations and the inside-out and outside-in development strategies that can help with adopting and adapting to any futuristic upgrades. You'll learn about how to handle states at the service level, system architecture design considerations, and the use of Adapter pattern to build architectures that adopt and adapt to futuristic innovations. You'll examine the Minimum Valuable Increment design approach, the Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing, and the manifesto areas that are relevant for aligning with the future research directions.
14 videos |
1h
Assessment
Badge
CRISC 2023: Cryptography
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are core pillars of IT security governance. Cybersecurity analysts can harden IT environments using various encryption and hashing techniques. In this course, examine how the CIA triad relates to IT security and how cryptography protects sensitive data. Next, discover how to configure Encrypting File System (EFS) file encryption and Microsoft BitLocker encryption, and use a customer-managed key to enable encryption for an Azure storage account. Then learn how to hash files in Linux and Windows. Finally, find out about hardware security modules (HSMs) and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), how Transport Layer Security (TLS) supersedes the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and how to enable HTTPS. This course can be used to prepare for the ISACA(r) Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC(r)) certification.
14 videos |
1h 18m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Network Security Concepts
Cybersecurity policies often require detailed network configuration changes and additions. Technicians must be proficient with the configuration and management of various TCP/IP protocols. In this course, I will start by discussing the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, network switching, and network access control. Next, I'll discuss the TCP/IP protocol suite as well as IPv4 and IPv6 addressing. I will then discuss network routing, dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), domain name system (DNS) and Wi-Fi authentication methods. Lastly, I will cover virtual private networks (VPNs), IP Security (IPsec) and network time synchronization. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
14 videos |
1h 29m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Managing Network Settings
Modern IT solutions communicate over various types of networks. Cybersecurity analysts must be able to configure and secure the ways that devices communicate over these networks. In this course, I will begin by creating on-premises and cloud-based virtual networks, followed by managing IP addressing on Linux, Windows, and in the cloud. Next, I will manage routing table entries in the cloud and implement domain name system (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) security. Lastly, I will harden a Wi-Fi router and configure IPsec in Windows. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
11 videos |
59m
Assessment
Badge
CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Cloud Computing & Cybersecurity
Cloud computing is an integral part of IT solutions for individuals and organizations. A knowledge of how cloud computing services are deployed and managed is a requirement for securing cloud-based resources. In this course, I will start by discussing cloud computing deployment models, such as public and private clouds, followed by discussing various cloud computing service models. Next, I will cover a variety of cloud computing security solutions, and I will deploy Linux and Windows cloud-based virtual machines. I will then deploy a web application in the cloud, cover the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) security controls, and work with Microsoft Azure managed identities. Lastly, I will discuss and configure a content delivery network (CDN). This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
12 videos |
1h 10m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Data Security Standards
To remain compliant with relevant data privacy laws and regulations, organizations must have a way of identifying sensitive data and implementing security controls to protect that data. In this course, explore how physical security is related to digital data security, examples of personally identifiable information (PII), and how data loss prevention (DLP) solutions can prevent data exfiltration. Next, learn about common data privacy regulations and standards, including GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Finally, discover how to use Amazon Macie and File Server Resource Manager to discover and classify sensitive information and learn about the importance of service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs). This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
11 videos |
1h 3m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Threat Intelligence Information
Cybersecurity analysts and security tools can reference a variety of threat intelligence sources to keep up to date with the latest threats and mitigations. These can be used to help keep organization security policies as effective as possible. In this course, examine different threat intelligence sources, the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) website, and the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base. Next, discover how the OWASP Top 10 can help harden vulnerable web applications, how advanced persistent threats (APTs) are executed, and common ISO/IEC standards. Finally, learn how to analyze CIS benchmark documents, the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), common organization security policy structures, and how organizational culture relates to IT security. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
12 videos |
1h 9m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Secure Coding & Digital Forensics
Security must be included in all phases of IT system and software development designs. Continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) integrates development and ongoing management of IT solutions. Cybersecurity analysts must understand IT governance and digital forensics concepts. Begin this course by examining the role of security in the software development life cycle (SDLC). Then you will explore CI/CD and learn how Git is used for file version control. Next, you will discover how the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) framework applies to IT governance and you will investigate digital forensics. Finally, you will configure legal hold settings for a cloud storage account and list common digital forensics hardware and software solutions. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ exam.
10 videos |
55m
Assessment
Badge
CompTIA Network+: Ports & Protocols
Understanding common networking protocols, ports, services, and traffic types is crucial for managing and securing networks. In this course, learn about the most commonly known protocols that are used today on computer networks, such as FTP, SMTP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, and more. Next, examine how HTTP enables computers to send and receive web-based communication messages and investigate other common key protocols and their ports. Finally, explore the Structured Query Language (SQL) programming language, common IP protocol types, and various traffic types. This course is one of a collection that helps prepare learners for the CompTIA Network+ (N10-009) certification exam.
21 videos |
2h 28m
Assessment
Badge
CompTIA Server+: Network Communications
Learning the various aspects of network communications hardware and software is vital to anyone working in a server environment. Use this theory and practice-based course to get a grip on configuring virtual networks and virtual network interface cards (NICs). Explore how network communications hardware and software map to the OSI model. Identify different types of communication networks such as LAN and VLAN. Then, learn how network switching and network routing work. Moving on, practice deploying a hypervisor virtual network. Next, practice configuring IP routing in the cloud and virtual network peering. Then, identify various types of NICs and cables. And finally, practice configuring on-premises and cloud-based virtual machine NICs. Upon completion, you'll be able to identify various network models and configure virtual networks and virtual NICs. You'll also be a step closer to being prepared for the CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 certification exam.
12 videos |
1h 12m
Assessment
Badge
Threat Intelligence & Attribution Best Practices: Threat Intelligence Concepts
Identifying and interpreting threat intelligence is crucial to preventing and mitigating cyber attacks. In this course, you'll explore the various threat intelligence types and how they relate to an organization's threat landscape. You'll begin by examining the key characteristics and benefits of threat intelligence and how to use it before, during, and after an attack. You'll then name known cyber threat actors and common indicators of compromise. You'll characterize intelligence, data, and information, and the four categories of threat intelligence: strategic, tactical, operational, and technical. You'll outline the threat intelligence lifecycle and how machine learning and risk modeling relate to threat intelligence. Lastly, you'll recognize threat intelligence use cases and sources, and how to map the threat landscape and benefit from intrusion detection and analysis.
20 videos |
1h 38m
Assessment
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Security Program Regulatory Integration
In this 12-video course, learners will discover the importance of integrating regulations with organizational security policies. Explore security standards such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA); and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), as well as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). To begin, determine how to establish the importance of building regulatory compliance into a company's IT security program. You will then examine Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and Protected Health Information (PHI). This leads into the subject of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and what it entails. You will learn how HIPAA protects medical information; how GDPR protects European Union citizen data, and how the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), applies to financial institutions. You will also identify how FISMA strives to protect sensitive US Government information, and recognize both NIST and ISO security standards. To conclude the course, you will discover how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), requires organizational financial transparency.
12 videos |
38m
Assessment
Badge
Risk Analysis: Security Risk Management
In this 14-video course, learners can explore security risk management concepts and discover how to assess, categorize, monitor, and respond to organizational risks. Examine key terms such as threats, vulnerabilities, impacts, and risks, and the steps involved in the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), risk management framework (RMF). Begin by learning how risk relates to information systems, and look at the concepts of managing risks, differentiating between threats, vulnerabilities, impacts, and risks. Examine the first step of the NIST RMF, categorizing risk, and then the second RMF step, selecting security controls. Next, observe the third step, implementing security controls; the fourth step, assessing security control effectiveness; the fifth step, examining risk, and output of security controls assessment to determine whether or not the risk is acceptable; and the last step, monitoring controls. Recognize benefits of a control-focused risk management approach; the benefits of an event-focused risk management approach; and risk communication. Finally, explore risk response and remediation, and differentiating between different risk responses such as accepting, avoiding, mitigating, sharing, or transferring risk.
14 videos |
38m
Assessment
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Mitigating Security Risks: Cyber Security Risks
Effective cybersecurity risk management requires intricate knowledge of day-to-day IT security risks, network vulnerabilities, and cyber attacks. In this course, you'll detail several cybersecurity breaches and how best to prevent each one. You'll start with a general overview of what comprises security risks before categorizing different types into information, cloud, and data-related risks. Next, you'll explore cybercrime methods, the motivations behind them, and the security gaps that invite them in. You'll then use real-life examples to detail some commonplace cyberattacks and crimes. Moving on, you'll investigate what's meant by malware and outline best practices to manage worms, viruses, logic bombs, trojans, and rootkits. You'll also learn how to safeguard against malware, spyware, ransomware, adware, phishing, zero-day vulnerabilities, DoS, and backdoor attacks. By the end of the course, you'll be able to outline guidelines and best practices for securing against the most prevalent types of cybercrimes.
13 videos |
1h 16m
Assessment
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Mitigating Security Risks: Information, Cloud, & Data Security Risk Considerations
To keep your organization's data secure, you need to know why your data is at risk and how to protect it using established principles and standards. In this course, you'll explore commonly used techniques to compromise data and how international best practices can help protect against these breaches. You'll start by examining three fundamental information security principles, which define information security policy and help identify risks. You'll then outline data breach methods and identify the targets of these threats. Next, you'll investigate what's meant by 'the human factor' and why it's key to any attack. You'll then study how technologies to secure data and information work under the hood. Moving on, you'll outline primary worldwide information security regulations and governance frameworks. Lastly, you'll examine why the ISO 27017 cloud security principles need to be considered when formulating a cloud security risk management plan.
11 videos |
55m
Assessment
Badge
Cloud Security Management: Legal & Compliance
It is important to understand the different cloud compliance procedures that should be followed by service providers and data owners. It's also vital to be familiar with the various cloud-specific legal compliance guidelines. In this course, you'll learn about international legislation conflicts, cloud-specific risks, legal controls, e-Discovery processes, and requirements for forensic analysis.
9 videos |
47m
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Cloud Security Administration: Continuous Operational Improvement
"To manage, operate, and maintain the cloud environment, proper procedures have to be in place. In this course, you'll learn about design concepts and the various models that can be used for operational improvements. You'll then move to on learn about how to create a management plan, ITSM operation management, risk management, and stakeholder communication. "
11 videos |
1h 26m
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CISM 2022: Information Security Governance
The best way to improve the enterprise security stance is to align IT security solutions with business objectives. In this course, you will consider how information security must align with business strategies. You will explore the business model for information security and review the importance of identifying and classifying assets critical to a business. Next, you will learn about supply chain security, personnel management, and the components of an information security program. You will discover the relationship between service-level agreements (SLAs) and organizational objectives and discuss the relevance of change and configuration management. Then, consider how to develop organizational security policies. Lastly, explore expense types, chain of custody, organizational culture, and how the Control Objectives for Information Technologies (COBIT) framework applies to IT governance. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
16 videos |
1h 40m
Assessment
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CISM 2022: Security Standards
Global and local security standards, including laws and regulations, are an important input to determine how enterprises deploy and manage security controls. In this course, you will learn how the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data privacy legislation applies to any organization world-wide handling private EU citizen data. Next, you will explore various International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) standards for proper data governance, followed by American data privacy and cloud security standards such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRamp). Discover how to secure cardholder data as related to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) international security standards and review other data privacy legislation including Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). Lastly, explore the importance of securing cloud service usage in alignment with the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
10 videos |
53m
Assessment
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CISM 2022: Managing Risk
Residual risk remains after security controls are put in place to mitigate the impact of threats. The organizational appetite for risk determines what level of residual risk is acceptable. In this course, you will explore how risk management improves business operations by minimizing the impact of realized threats. You will learn how to calculate the cost of mitigating risk compared to the value of the protected asset and determine the cost-benefit analysis and return on investment when implementing security controls. Next, discover the importance of risk assessments, especially where there are changes to some aspect of the business or a specific business process. You will then explore how various risk approaches, such as risk acceptance, avoidance, transfer, and reduction, apply to an organization's tolerance of residual risk. Lastly, discover how risk heat maps are an effective method for communicating various degrees of risk. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
9 videos |
49m
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CISM 2022: Data Privacy
Enterprises must comply with relevant laws and regulations related to data privacy. This requires recognizing applicable laws and regulations and implementing the appropriate security controls. In this course, you will explore examples of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) and learn about data residency implications related to the physical storage location of sensitive data. Next, learn how to reduce the possibility of data exfiltration through data loss protection policies and how to discover and classify data using Amazon Macie and Microsoft Purview governance. Then you will learn to configure data classification on the Microsoft Windows server platform and tag cloud resources for classification purposes. Lastly, explore how to configure Microsoft Azure storage account encryption using a customer-managed key. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
10 videos |
56m
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CISM 2022: Assessing Risk
Assessing risk is a crucial activity that enables organizations to evaluate risk exposure for business processes and assets. In this course, you will begin by exploring how to conduct vulnerability assessments and how the results can shed light on security control deficiencies. Next, you will learn how to perform a network vulnerability assessment and review the results, followed by scanning a web application for web app-specific vulnerabilities. You will discover how to conduct a gap analysis to determine the current security posture compared to a desired security posture. Then, you will explore the important aspects of when and how to run penetration tests. Lastly, you will see how to configure Microsoft Azure Policy assignments to determine cloud resource configuration compliance. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
8 videos |
45m
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CISM 2022: Common Network Security Threats
Some security controls are very specific to the threat that they address. Information security managers must be well versed in common network security threats in order to minimize the impact of realized threats on business processes. In this course, you will start by exploring various types of threat actors and their motivation for attacking networks. You will review industry standards related to categorizing threats, including common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base, and the OWASP Top 10 web application security attacks. Next, you will learn how bug bounties are paid by companies to ensure the utmost in security for their products, which can influence customer choices. You will discover how various types of network attacks are executed including Wi-Fi attacks, SYN flood attacks, buffer overflow attacks, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Lastly, you will see how VPN anonymizer solutions and the Tor web browser can be used for anonymous network connectivity for legitimate as well as illegal purposes. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
13 videos |
1h 14m
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CISM 2022: Cloud Computing & Coding
The use of cloud services is a form of outsourcing of IT service which also introduces an element of risk. Software developers can use on-premises as well as cloud-based services to create, test, and deploy software solutions. In this course, you will explore cloud deployment models including public, private, hybrid, and community clouds. You will then cover cloud computing service models, such as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS), including where the security responsibility lies in each model. Next, you will explore various cloud-based security controls addressing a wide variety of cloud computing security needs. You will discover how to deploy a repeatable compliant cloud-based sandbox environment using Microsoft Azure Blueprints. Next, explore how security must be included in each software development life cycle (SDLC) phase as opposed to post-implementation. Finally, discover the importance of secure coding practices and how security must integrate with software development, testing, deployment, and patching. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
9 videos |
49m
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CISM 2022: Data Protection with Cryptography
Cryptography provides solutions for ensuring data privacy and integrity. Various firmware and software solutions protect data in transit and data at rest. In this course, you will explore the CIA security triad and how it relates to the organization's security program. You will then review various cryptography solutions and discuss data integrity to assure that tampering has not occurred. Next, you will learn how Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) firmware provide cryptographic services. You will see how Transport Layer Security (TLS) supersedes the deprecated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) network security protocol suite followed by discussing virtual private network (VPN) encrypted network tunnels, and the IP Security (IPsec) network security protocol suite. Lastly, you will explore the PKI hierarchy and how public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates are used for digital security throughout the certificate life cycle. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
12 videos |
1h 5m
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SSCP 2021: Fundamental Networking Concepts
Historically speaking, the vast majority of security practitioners, technicians, engineers, and architects come from the field of local and wide area networking. This factor, as well as the importance of protecting data-in-transit, makes networking a critical knowledge area. Use this course to get to grips with several networking concepts and methodologies. Learn to distinguish between the OSI and TCP/IP reference models. Explore network topologies, relationships, and media types. See what's meant by software-defined networking (SDN), Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), and terminal access controller access-control system plus (TACACS+), among other terms. Examine commonly used ports and protocols. And look into remote access connectivity and virtual private networks (VPNs). Upon course completion, you'll be familiar with several fundamental networking concepts and network access control methodologies. You'll also be further prepared for the (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) 2021 exam.
9 videos |
50m
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