Topic:

Benefit:

• Explain common attacks against network assets, the associated threats and vulnerabilities, and what network security personnel do to secure assets.

• Keep the bad guys out by understanding the threats and methods of attack. Establish a baseline with no outside intrusion

• Explain how to use cryptography to help protect information and how to choose an appropriate encryption method for an organization.

• Implement security-enhanced computing baselines in an organization.

• Help protect information in an organization by using authentication and access control.

• Make sure those gaining access to the network have credentials and are who they say they are.

• Deploy and manage certificates.

• Help protect transmission of data by identifying threats to network devices and implementing security for common data transmission, remote access, and wireless network traffic

• Keep the bad guys out of information transmitted to others within the business and off the premises

• Help protect Web servers against common attacks and configure security for Web browsers.

• Keep web based information secure

• Help protect e-mail messages and instant messaging from common security threats.

• Keep gad guys from reading your email and instant messages

• Identify common security threats and vulnerabilities to directory services and DNS, and then apply security methods to help protect them.

• Keep the bad guys from learning the names of computers on your network while keeping the network names available to authorized users

• Identify network perimeter threats and monitor perimeter security for a network.

• Know how the bad guys attack and keep a watch for their attacks

• Identify types of security policies to manage operational security, and then use these policies to ensure compliance by users in an organization.

• Use policy to discourage or prevent attacks from within and from outside

• Preserve business continuity by implementing a security-enhanced disaster recovery strategy, communicating risks to others, and performing secure backup and recovery.

• Provide maximum security for information, maximum availability of information, with the ability to recover from attack with minimal disruption.

• Identify, respond to, and assist in the formal investigation of security incidents.

• Prepare to assist and prosecute in the event of a network breach