IT Security/Network/Devices

This lesson covers network device security.

Objectives and Skills

Objectives and skills for the network devices portion of Security+ certification include:

Implement security configuration parameters on network devices and other technologies.

• Firewalls
• Routers
• Switches
• Load Balancers
• Proxies
• Web security gateways
• VPN concentrators
• NIDS and NIPS
  • Behavior based
  • Signature based
  • Anomaly based
  • Heuristic
• Protocol analyzers
• Spam filter
• UTM security appliances
  • URL filter
  • Content inspection
  • Malware inspection
• Web application firewall vs. network firewall
• Application aware devices
  • Firewalls
  • IPS
  • IDS
  • Proxies

Multimedia

1. YouTube: Routers, Firewalls, and Switches - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 1.1
2. YouTube: Load Balancers and Proxies - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 1.1
3. YouTube: Web Security Gateways and UTMs - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 1.1
4. YouTube: VPN Concentrators - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 1.1
5. YouTube: Application-Aware Security Devices - CompTIA Security+ SY0-401: 1.1