Introduction To Network Security

Instructor-Led Course (4 days)

Course Description:

 

Experienced NCS Data Systems instructors will show you how to:

Analyze your exposure to information assurance threats and protect your organization's systems and data to accomplish the following;

  • Reduce your likelihood to an attack by deploying protection such as firewalls, data encryption, and other countermeasures

  • Manage risks from inside the organization and from the Internet

  • Protect network users from hostile applications and viruses

  • Identify the security risks that need to be addressed within your organization

 

Upon Completion:

 

Today, organizations are linking their systems across enterprise-wide networks and virtual private networks (VPNs), as well as increasing their exposure to customers, competitors, criminals, and hackers inside and outside your company. You learn how to analyze risks to your networks and the steps needed to select and deploy the appropriate countermeasures to reduce your exposure to network threats.

 

Course Benefits:

 

This 4 day class is written for those who require the fundamental skills to develop and implement security plans designed to protect their organization's information from threats.

 

Certified Professional Exams:

  • None

 

Prerequisites:

  • None

Follow-on Classes:

  • CISSP - Certified Information Systems Security Professional - 5 Days

  • Security Certified Program SCNP SCNA

  • Security Architecture

  • Security Access Control & Intrusion Detection

  • ITIL Security Management

  • CWSP Certified Wireless Security Professional

Labs:

Exercises and workshops provide you with experience analyzing system and network security. Activities include:

  • Cracking passwords

  • Scanning systems with Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)

  • Restricting computer access with biometrics

  • Preventing unwanted network access with a personal firewall

  • Encrypting and signing important data

  • Discovering security best practices

 

Course Information:

 

Various sample deliverables are offered utilizing public domain templates, checklists, and forms. Templates will change continuously adapting to changes in the disaster planning and recovery industry.

 

NCS Data Systems consultants working in the security field will be dynamically implementing new scenarios that are over and above the base scenarios used in student workbooks.

 

Please note that this is not a class that will explain the very intricacies of each and every technique and template available.

 

NCS Data Systems consultants constantly revise information used in this class.

 

Detailed Course Description:

Course Outline

 

To enroll in the class or for further information and class schedules please contact us via training@ncsdata.net