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This course covers Domain 2 of the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam. It explains what you need to know about the structures, transmissions methods, transport formats, and security measures used to provide integrity, availability, authentication, and confidentiality for transmissions over private and public communications networks and media.
Objectives:
After completing this course, students will be able to:
- Explain the International Standards Organization/Open Systems Interconnection
- (ISO/OSI) layers and characteristics
- Describe the design and function of communications and network security
- Describe the components, protocols and services involved in Internet/intranet/extranet design
- Define and describe communications security techniques to prevent, detect, and correct errors so that integrity, availability, and confidentiality of transactions over networks may be maintained
- Define and describe specific areas of communication and how they can be secured
- Explain current forms of network attacks and their countermeasures
Topics:
- The Open Systems Interconnection model
- Network characteristics
- Network topologies
- LAN devices
- WAN technologies
- Providing remote access capabilities
- Networking and security protocols
- Securing communications
- Error prevention, detection, and correction
- Intrusion detection, response, and prevention
- Fault tolerance and data restoration
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