Network and Information Security Workshop |
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Training Description:
Group Project
Each group of 4-5 students will be required to design, create, configure and maintain a complete physical network environment from scratch, provide basic security requirements to manage and secure the network remotely, configure a firewall with all the required policies to use as the network gateway, and finally test the current environment from an outside network.
Test exam
A written/online exam is taken at the end of the program to evaluate student’s performance.
- The training program aims at maximizing the students’ knowledge in the field of Network Security, giving the skills required to develop a security infrastructure, recognize threats and vulnerabilities to networks, and mitigate security threats.
- The program studies the topics of securing routers and switches and their associated networks, installation, troubleshooting and monitoring network devices to maintain integrity, confidentiality and availability of data and devices
- The program is a mixture of stand-up instruction, guided discussions, and individual and group exercises used to deliver a practically-oriented learning outcome.
- The program is divided to classes and workshops in the following topics:
- Review to fundamentals of networking (students should have basic knowledge and skills in data networking) (6 hours)
- Security threats, cryptography concepts, AAA concepts, securing routers and switches, mitigation procedures (14 hours)
- Firewall basic technologies, configuration and management, security policies, user management (10 hours)
- VPN technology, IPSec and SSL technologies (10 hours)
- Firewall UTM technologies, IDS and IPS technologies (10 hours)
- Group labs and project (20 hours)
Group Project
Each group of 4-5 students will be required to design, create, configure and maintain a complete physical network environment from scratch, provide basic security requirements to manage and secure the network remotely, configure a firewall with all the required policies to use as the network gateway, and finally test the current environment from an outside network.
Test exam
A written/online exam is taken at the end of the program to evaluate student’s performance.