EC Council Certified Network Defender Certification FSCT 0211

Course offerings

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Understand the fundamental goals, benefits, challenges, and available countermeasures for network defence.
• Analyze cryptography algorithms and design implementation strategies for privacy and security of information
• Understand the role of the Intrusion Detection and Prevention System in defending the networks.
• Understand Linux and Windows security concerns and hardening techniques such as password management, security baseline configurations, etc.
• Identify risks associated with IoT and mobile devices and select appropriate countermeasures, including policies, guidelines, and tools.
• Implement application whitelisting and blacklisting, sandboxing, patch management, web application firewall, encryption techniques, and secure design strategies for data loss prevention.
• Examine the evolution of network security management in virtualized IT environments.
• Understand cloud computing concepts and different security concerns.
• Understand wireless networking concepts, network encryption mechanisms, authentication methods, and advantages of network traffic monitoring.
• Understand logging concepts, centralized log monitoring and perform log analysis to manage secure network operations.
• Examine various network security incidents and develop policies, processes, and guidelines for incident handling, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Develop a risk management program and implement different strategies such as attack surface analysis and cyber threat intelligence to reduce organizational risks.

Effective as of Winter 2022

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