Section 1: Network Security Concepts, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
Chapter 1: Network Security Concepts
An overview of network security
Network security concepts
Network security components
Network and system hardening
Due diligence and cyber resilience
Continuous monitoring and improvement
Network security architecture approach
Network security best practices and guidelines
Network Operations Center overview
Proper incident management
Functional ticketing system and knowledge base
A well-defined investigation process
High availability and failover
Assessing network security effectiveness
Key attributes to be considered
The action priority matrix
Assessing the nature of threats
Chapter 2: Security for Cloud and Wireless Networks
An introduction to secure cloud computing
AWS' shared responsibility model
Major cybersecurity challenges with the cloud
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Well-defined identity capabilities
Automation of security best practices
Continuous data protection
Microsoft Azure security technologies
Identity management using Azure
Infrastructure protection using Azure
Criticality of infrastructure
Identifying and classifying data
Wireless network security
Wi-Fi attack surface analysis and exploitation techniques
Wi-Fi data collection and analysis
Wi-Fi attack and exploitation techniques
Security assessment approach
Software-defined radio attacks
Chapter 3: Mitigating the Top Network Threats of 2020
The top 10 network attacks and how to fix them
How to fix phishing threats
Rogue applications and fake security alerts
intimidation and imitation
How to fix rogue applications and software threats
the enemy inside the gates
How to fix insider threats
