This short course is designed to partially prepare you for certification as an EC-Council Network Security Administrator (ENSA). The ENSA certification program looks at network security from a defensive view. It is designed to provide fundamental skills needed to analyze the internal and external security threats against a network, and to develop security policies that will protect an organization’s information. Students obtaining ENSA certification will be able to:
• expose system and network vulnerabilities and defend against them.
• evaluate network and Internet security issues & design
• implement successful security policies and firewall strategies
The short course will be run over 5 weeks with lectures being delivered via weekly after hours webinars (recordings of the Webinar will be available if you are unable to make the live event). In between the webinars, you will be asked to do 10-12 hours of study.
The course is free to undertake and there are no required textbooks – all reference materials will be free material that can be accessed electronically.
Course Schedule (recordings of Webinars will be available if you are unable to make it to the live event)
Week 1: 23rd January – 29th January
- Welcome to Cyber Security Administration
- Why Security?
- Fundamentals of Computer Network
- Network Security
- DEMO: How hackers sneak into our networks
Webinar: 7:00 – 8:00pm, Thursday 23rd January AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time UTC +11)
Week 2: 30th January – 5th February
- Security Standards
- Security Policy
- Network Security Threats
- DEMO: Network security threats from real life
Webinar: 7:00 – 8:00pm, Thursday 30th January AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time UTC +11)
Week 3: 6th – 12th February
- Intrusion Detection System (IDS) and Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS)
- Firewalls
- Bastion Host and Honeypots
- DEMO: The use of IDS, IPS, and firewalls in real life
Webinar: 7:00 – 8:00pm, Thursday 6th February AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time UTC +11)
Week 4: 13th – 19th February
- Hardening Operating Systems
- Hardening Modems
- Hardening Networks
- Patch Management
- Log Analysis
- Network Vulnerability Assessment
- DEMO: How to secure your IT environment
- Exam review
Webinar: 7:00 – 8:00pm, Thursday 13th February AEDT (Australian Eastern Daylight Time UTC +11)
Week 5: 20th – 26th February
- Online test
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