NETWORK SECURITY
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| Network Security |
1. Introduction
- Need for securing a network.
- Principles of Network Security.
- Cyber Security and Information Security.
- Type of attacks.
- Introduction to cyber crime.
- Cyber law-Indian Perspective (IT Act 2000 and amended 2008).
- Cyber ethics.
- Ethical hacking.
- What is hacking? attacker.
- Phreaker .
2. Securing Data over Internet
- Introduction to basic encryption and decryption.
- Concept of symmetric and asymmetric key cryptography.
- Overview of DES, RSA and PGP.
- Introduction to Hashing.
- MD5.
- SSL.
- SSH.
- HTTPS.
- Digital Signatures.
- Digital certification.
- IPSec.
3. Virus, Worms and Trojans
- Definitions.
- Preventive measures – access central.
- Checksum verification.
- Process configuration.
- Virus scanners.
- Heuristic scanners.
- Application level virus scanners.
- Deploying virus protection.
4. Firewalls
- Definition and types of firewalls.
- Firewall configuration.
- Limitations of firewall.
5. Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
- Introduction.
- IDS limitations – teardrop attacks.
- Counter measures.
- Host based IDS set up.
6. Handling Cyber Assets
- Configuration policy as per standards.
- Disposable policy.
7. Virtual Private Network (VPN)
- Basics setting of VPN.
- VPN diagram.
- Configuration of required objects.
- Exchanging keys.
- Modifying security policy.
8. Disaster and Recovery
- Disaster categories.
- Network disasters – cabling.
- Topology.
- Single point of failure.
- Save configuration files.
- Server disasters – UPS, RAID.
- Clustering.
- Backups.
- Server recovery.
