Security+™ Certification

Learning Outcomes:

• Given information in the Lesson Lab, successfully Identify social engineering attacks, classify software attacks and identify hardware attacks.

• Correctly use the Activity Lab information to harden a variety of system components against attack.

• Utilizing a specific scenario, accurately secure network traffic using certificates, renew and revoke certificates and back up and restore certificates and private keys.

• Efficiently enforce corporate security policy compliance, legal and physical security compliance and educate users with information as demonstrated in the Lesson Lab.

• Using a pre-set network, successfully scan for vulnerabilities, monitor for intruders, setup a Honeypot and respond to security incidents.

This 5 day course addresses job responsibilities including securing network services, network devices and network traffic. Build your knowledge about computer hardware, operating systems and networks to implement basic security services on any type of computer network.

* Identifying Security Threats
* Hardening Internal Systems and Services
* Hardening Internetwork Devices and Services
* Securing Network Communications
* Managing Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
* Managing Certificates
* Enforcing Organizational Security Policy
* Monitoring the Security Infrastructure
* Authentication and Authorization

Security+™ Certification

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: Identify social engineering attacks, classify software attacks and identify hardware attacks. Harden base operating systems, directory services, DHCP servers, network file and print servers, internetwork connection devices, DNS and BIND servers, Web servers, FTP servers, Network News Transport Protocol (NNTP) servers, Email servers, and conferencing and messaging servers. Secure network traffic using IP securty, wireless traffic, client internet access and remote access channel. Install, harden, back up and restore a Certificate Authority. Enroll certificates for entities, secure network traffic using certificates. Renew and revoke certificates and back up and restore certificates and private keys. Enforce corporate security policy compliance, legal and physical security compliance and educate users. Scan for vulnerabilities, monitor for intruders, setup a Honeypot and respond to security incidents.

Class targeted to:

* IT professionals with networking/administrative skills in Windows-based TCP/IP networks.

Prerequisites:

* A+ and Network+ certifications or equivalent knowledge and 6-9 months in networking experience including experience configuring and managing TCP/IP.