Service Description

This course provides the basic knowledge needed to plan, implement, and maintain information security in a vendor-neutral format; this includes risk management, host and network security, authentication and access control systems, cryptography, and organizational security. This course assumes that you have basic knowledge of using and configuring individual workstations and simple networks. After completing this course, you will know how to:  Correctly use fundamental security terminology, identify common threats sources, and describe organizational security strategies.  Identify social engineering techniques, practice organizational security through organizational policies, and plan user training.  Explain common cryptographic techniques and standards, and identify public key infrastructure concepts.  Describe common network attacks, and categorize traffic management devices like firewalls and packet filters.  Explain authentication factors, and understand network authentication protocols.  Compare access control models, apply file-level access control, and centrally manage account security.  Categorize common host attacks and vulnerabilities, and identify the security ramifications of various popular system architectures.  Secure hosts in the enterprise and manage mobile devices.  Use monitoring and logging systems to detect security threats, and respond to incidents.