CIW Security Professional - Network Security Introduction

The CIW Security Professional series focuses on the management and deployment of e-business transaction and security solutions. These courses teach learners to implement e-business security policies by identifying security threats developing counter measures using firewall systems and attack-recognition technologies.

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Training Presented in: English

Audience

This course is intended for CIW Security Professionals who are responsible for the implementation of e-business security policies and technologies. The target audience for these courses are network server administrators firewall administrators systems administrators application developers and IT security officers.

Objective

Topics Include

Unit 1: Security Overview

• Identify the elements of a security infrastructure.
• Identify steps to create a security policy.
• Match authentication methods with their descriptions.
• Identify features of access control methods.
• Identify the factors that determine the encryption strength.
• Identify features of auditing methods.
• Identify guidelines for administering security.
• Identify the physical level security principles.
• Identify the types of strategic level security principles.
• Identify characteristics of security standards.
• Match security services with their functions.
• Match security mechanisms with their functions.
• Identify the Orange Book security level for a particular system.
• Identify the Evaluation Assurance Level (EAL) for a particular system.

Unit 2: Security Issues

• Identify causes of security attacks.
• Identify characteristics of different types of hackers.
• Identify types of basic security attacks.
• Identify types of advanced security attacks.
• Match variants of DoS attacks with their effects.
• Match types of spoofing with their effects.
• Identify the effects of various malware attacks.

Unit 3: Security Measures

• Identify features of encryption methods.
• Identify the key aspects of algorithms used for symmetric encryption.
• Identify the key elements of asymmetric encryption.
• Identify the key aspects of algorithms used for hash encryption.
• Identify methods of securing communication by implementing encryption.
• Encrypt e-mail messages.
• Identify methods for encrypting drives.
• Identify the key aspects of using SSL to secure e-commerce transactions.

Duration

6

Minimum Requirements

(Currently no course requirements information)

Media

CDROM

• CIW Security Professional - Intrusion Detection and Threat Analysis
• CIW Security Professional - Intrusion Detection and Threat Analysis
• CIW Security Professional - Network Security and Firewalls
• CIW Security Professional - Network Security Introduction
• CIW Security Professional - Operating System Security
• CIW Security Professional - Operating System Security
• CIW Security Professional - Security Auditing and Attack Techniques
• CIW Security Professional - Security Auditing and Attack Techniques