Course Description
Discover various types of firewalls and filtering methods including packet filtering, circuit-level, application-level, and multilevel firewalls. Explore stateful vs. stateless inspections, Security Compliance Manager, and baselines.
Learning Objectives
Security Fundamentals: Firewalls
- identify the purpose of firewalls
- recognize characteristics of packet filtering firewalls
- recognize characteristics of circuit-level firewalls
- recognize characteristics of application-level firewalls
- recognize characteristics of stateful multilevel firewalls
- recognize characteristics of software firewalls
- identify an appropriate firewall for network protection
- distinguish between stateful and stateless inspection
- identify the most appropriate inspection type to use
- define security baselines
- install and configure the Security Compliance Toolkit