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8H131G : Network Security & Database Vulnerabilities

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10 Days

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Overview

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This course provides a background of network security. You will learn the about Local Area Networks, TCP/IP, the OSI Framework and routing basics, how networking affects security systems within an organization, and about the network components that guard an organization from cybersecurity attacks. In addition to networking, you will learn about database vulnerabilities and the tools/knowledge needed to research a database vulnerability for a variety of databases.This course is intended for anyone who wants to gain a basic understanding of cybersecurity. This is the fourth course in a series to acquire the skills to work in the field as a Cybersecurity Analyst.

What You'll Learn

In this course, you will learn to:

Contrast stateful and stateless inspection
Contrast intrusion detection systems (IDSs) and intrusion prevention systems (IPSs)
Define network address translation (NAT)
Distinguish between static and dynamic IP address translation
Describe how Ethernet networks work
Distinguish between the Layer 2 and Layer 3 addressing schemes
Differentiate between collision and broadcast domains
Identify the ways to segment broadcast domains
Describe various network devices
Distinguish between an IP address and a MAC address
Describe how broadcasting domains are used
Describe how address resolution protocol (ARP) tables are used
Describe the use of routing tables in network routing
Convert numbers between binary, octal, decimal, and hexadecimal number systems
Describe IPv4’s four-octet format and the five ranges of IPv4’s classful addressing schema
Explain how IP addresses work
Describe the purpose of subnet masks and gateways
Contrast IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
Differentiate between the TCP and UDP transport layer protocols
Describe the domain name system (DNS), including the service that it provides
Describe the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), including the service that it provides
Define the Syslog protocol
Explain how to use flow utilities such as NetFlow to collect and visualize network traffic flow statistics on routing devices
Identify the legitimate and illegitimate uses of port mirroring
Contrast traditional firewalls with next-generation firewalls (NGFWs)
Explain how NGFWs can inspect and block more intrusion types than is possible with traditional firewalls
Describe the flow of packets through an NGFW
Describe high availability in information technology
Describe how to achieve high availability through clustering
Identify various data source types
Identify the many data sources present in a typical organization
Describe structured data, semi-structured data, and unstructured data
Differentiate between a flat-file database and a relational database
Describe the activities typically contained in each step of the data security process
Identify sources to consult for data security best practices
Discuss a typical database access setup
Describe a vulnerability assessment test report, including its contents and how to read it
Determine the security controls required to protect data given the potential sources of threats and the hosting model used
Discuss how each step in the data security process applies to the entire IT and data security landscape
Describe the key components of data logging and monitoring
Explain the value of real-time policy violation alerts and activity blocking
Explain how to generate metrics for logging and audit reporting
Describe the event attributes to include in logging
Explain how to configure systems to monitor for cybersecurity events
Describe the nature of various injection attacks and their prevalence on the threat landscape
Describe OS command injection attacks and the operating system flaws that allow them to occur
Identify preventative measures against OS command injection attacks
Explain how SQL injection works
Identify common types of SQL injection
Identify preventive measures against SQL injection
Describe non-SQL injection attacks such as NoSQL, XPath, and LDAP
Identify common vulnerability attacks and defense against them
Analyze a web application’s vulnerabilities using OWASP ZAP
Create and modify repositories on GitHub
Detect and analyze code vulnerabilities using Snyk
Examine a repository’s code vulnerabilities using Snyk
Evaluate your peers’ completion of GitHub and Snyk tasks using the provided rubric
Fork a public GitHub repository

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for anyone who wants to gain a basic understanding of Network Security/Database Vulnerabilities or as the fourth course in a series of courses to acquire the skills to work in the Cybersecurity field as a Jr Cybersecurity Analyst.

Prerequisites

None

Learning Journey

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nit 1 -TCP/IP Framework

Unit 2 - Basics of IP Addressing and the OSI Framework

Unit 3 - Introduction to Databases

Unit 4 - Deep Dive - Injection Vulnerability

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