Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Advanced Cyber Security Training: Network Security
EC-Council
Cyber attacks on your business or home network can have devastating results. This course gave learners the knowledge and skills to identify and prevent these attacks, as well as helping them increase their network security.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Jay Bavisi
President
EC-Council
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Explore why network security is important
- Identify phishing emails, bad links, and so on
- Assess how to prevent and recover from virus and ransomware attacks
- Explore how hackers recon your network
- Explore how to make your network a harder target
- Explore how to protect yourself and your company
Syllabus
A comprehensive video series that covers a wide variety of topics including:
- Types of attackers: Insider threats, external threats, accidental/unwitting participant.
- DDOS attacks, what it is, how you can prevent it.
- Virus attacks, ransomware attacks, what they are, how they can affect you and how to prevent them.
- Threat assessment scanning with Nmap, OpenVas, Spiderfoot, Nessus.
- We will take a deep dive into why we need to be careful with our social media including social engineering attacks.
- Exploring vulnerabilities with ExploitDB.
- Red teams, blue teams, and hackers.
- Setup a honeypot to re-direct hackers
- Disaster recovery, how to prepare for the worst.
- Easy to follow and understand video series for novice and seasoned IT professionals.
- A practical approach to cyber security that details the how and why in order to build a better understanding.
- Introduction to network threats
- How a malicious hacker goes about breaking into your network
- Securing your network through your users
- Securing your machines
- Logs and auditing
- Phishing and spear phishing attacks
- Red teams and Blue team approach
- Tracking the attacker (OSINT)
- Recovering from an attack
Issued on 14th April 2021
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