National CAE Designated Institution
  • Online, Instructor-Led
Course Description

Identify elements of secure network design that may include segmentation, Firewall implementation or a combination thereof to mitigate various types of security threats and attacks. Use Best Practices to design, implement, monitor and manage a network security plan. Examine security incident postmortem reporting and ongoing network security activities.

Learning Objectives

Demonstrate system security skills through software and hardware firewall implementation and testing; use system tools, practices, and technologies to implement a security plan; evaluate practices, tools, and technologies to identify security breaches, sources of attacks, and protect mission critical systems; establish levels of security based on an analysis of security logs; and use relevant tools to identify network vulnerabilities, and respond/mitigate to various types of attacks.

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Exploitation Analysis
  • Systems Architecture
  • Systems Analysis
  • Cyber Defense Analysis

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

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