Synopsis

Network security is a broad topic that affects many aspects relating to end-users, applications, and infrastructure. The objective of this workshop is to examine key concepts, protocols, policies, and practices to protect data and assets from potential abuse.

The workshop will include packet analysis, a skill involving capturing live data over the network and analysing them for detecting network issues, monitoring potential misuse or intrusion attempts, and examining security problems.

Target audience

This course is targeted to network managers and operators, engineers and policy makers who are interested in network security and want to gain an understanding of security operations. The topics covered range from basic to intermediate level that aims to educate and challenge participants.

Pre-requisites

It is assumed that participants have a basic understanding of:

• Network operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model and TCP/IP.
• Basic command line (CLI) skills.

Course outline

• Intro to Security & Cryptography
• Device & Infrastructure Security
• Packet Analysis
• Intrusion Detection
• DDoS Attacks and Countermeasures
• Secure Internet Routing