Overview
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Prepare for the Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) certification. Review the objectives from the Networks and Communications domain of the exam.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Networks and communications
- Introducing TCP/IP
- IP addressing
- Domain name system (DNS)
- Network ports
- ICMP
- Network topologies
- Network relationships
- Switches and routers
- Firewalls
- Load balancers, proxies, and web security gateways
- VPNs and VPN concentrators
- Network intrusion detection and prevention
- Protocol analyzers
- Unified threat management
- Content distribution networks
- Traffic shaping and WAN optimization
- Public and private addressing
- Subnetting
- VLANs and network segmentation
- Security device placement
- Network access control
- RADIUS and TACACS
- Remote network access
- Desktop and application virtualization
- Software defined networking
- Port isolation
- Defense in depth
- Telephony
- Multimedia collaboration
- Storage networks
- Firewall rule management
- Router configuration security
- Switch configuration security
- Maintaining network availability
- Network monitoring
- SNMP
- Denial of service attacks
- Eavesdropping attacks
- Other network attacks
- Understanding wireless networking
- Basic wireless security
- WEP, WPA ,and WPA2
- Wireless authentication
- Wireless signal propagation
- WPA and WPS attacks
- Propagation attacks
- Preventing rogues and evil twins
- Understanding Bluetooth and NFC attacks
- What's next?
