Course description

Certified Network Defender (CND)

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Certified Network Defender (CND) is a vendor-neutral, hands-on, instructor-led comprehensive network security certification training program. It is a skills-based, lab intensive program based on a job-task analysis and cybersecurity education framework presented by the National Initiative of Cybersecurity Education (NICE). The course has also been mapped to global job roles and responsibilities and the Department of Defense (DoD) job roles for system/network administrators. The course is designed and developed after extensive market research and surveys.

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The program prepares network administrators on network security technologies and operations to attain Defense-in-Depth network security preparedness. It covers the project, detect and respond approach to network security. The course contains hands-on labs, based on major network security tools and techniques which will provide network administrators real world expertise on current network security technologies and operations. The study-kit provides you with over 10 GB of network security best practices, assessments and protection tools. The kit also contains templates for various network policies and a large number of white papers for additional learning.

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Course outline

• Computer network and defense fundamentals

• Network Security Threats, Vulnerabilities and attacks

• Network Security Controls, Protocols and Devices

• Network Security Policy Design and Implementation

• Physical Security

• Host Security

• Secure firewall configuration and management

• Secure IDS configuration and management

• Secure VPN configuration and management

• Wireless Network defense

• Network Traffic Monitoring and analysis

• Network risk and vulnerability management

• Data backup and recovery

• Network incident response and management

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