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Welcome to Week 1

This article highlights the key learnings of this week.
Welcome to week one of the course, Introduction to Effective Network Analysis. This week, you will learn about Network Security and explore different types of routers and firewalls.

Remember – A good start is half the job done.

Here are the highlights of what you will learn this week:

1. Introduction to the fundamentals of network security
2. Installation of virtual machine and OS
3. Introduction to Routers and details regarding setting it up
4. Explore services in Routers and understand router attack
5. Introduction to Firewall

Let’s get started!

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