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| Course Number | SCNA1 |
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| Prerequisites | To ensure your success, you are strongly recommended to first take the following courses or have equivalent knowledge:
Security Certified Program: Tactical Perimeter Defense
Security Certified Program: Strategic Infrastructure Security |
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| Introduction | This course is designed to provide the foundation knowledge to network administrators and security professionals who are seeking to learn about advanced security issues surrounding PKI and biometrics. Advanced Security Implementation is designed to provide network administrators and security architects with an awareness of security-related issues and the essential skills they need to implement security in a given network. It is the first course offered in the second level of the Security Certified Program. This course is followed by Enterprise Security Solutions (ESS). |
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| At Course Completion | Describe the fundamentals of trusted networks.
Describe the concepts and principles of cryptography.
Implement computer forensic tools.
Identify current laws and legislation that influence computer security professionals.
Describe biometric solutions, including fingerprint scanning, iris scanning, and vocal scanning.
Describe strong authentication solutions and implement token-based strong authentication.
Describe the function of digital certificates.
Describe the implementation of digital signatures. |
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| Projected Days | 5 Days |
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| Course Outline | Lesson 1: Introduction to Trusted
Networks
Topic 1A: The Need For Trusted Networks
Topic 1B:
Authentication and Identification
Topic 1C: Public Key
Infrastructure
Topic 1D: Applications of PKI
Lesson 2: Cryptography
and Data Security
Topic 2A: History of Cryptography
Topic 2B: Math and
Algorithms
Topic 2C: Private Key Exchange
Topic 2D: Public Key
Exchange
Topic 2E: Message Authentication
Lesson 3: Computer
Forensics
Topic 3A: Incident Response
Topic 3B: Computer Forensic
Fundamentals
Topic 3C: Hard Disk Structure
Topic 3D: Forensic
Tools
Topic 3E: Investigating Computers
Topic 3F: Computer Forensics
Solutions
Lesson 4: Law and Legislation
Topic 4A: Intellectual
Property
Topic 4B: Categories and Types of Law
Topic 4C: Process of
Handling Evidence
Topic 4D: Information Security-related Laws and
Acts
Lesson 5: Biometrics—Who You Are
Topic 5A: The Process of
Biometrics Today
Topic 5B: Accuracy of Biometrics
Topic 5C: Applications
of Biometrics
Topic 5D: Fingerprint Scanning
Topic 5E: Facial
Scanning
Topic 5F: Iris and Retinal Scanning
Topic 5G: Vocal
Scanning
Topic 5H: Further Biometric Technologies
Topic 5I: Techniques for
Compromising Biometrics
Lesson 6: Strong Authentication
Topic
6A: Why Strong Authentication
Topic 6B: Authentication Tokens
Topic 6C:
RSA SecurID
Topic 6D: Smart Cards
Lesson 7: Digital
Certificates
Topic 7A: Paper Certificates and Identity Cards
Topic 7B:
Authorities that Issue Physical Certificates
Topic 7C: The Importance of
Protecting the Identity of the CA
Topic 7D: Differences between Physical and
Digital Certificates
Topic 7E: Standards for Digital Certificates
Topic
7F: X.509 as an Authentication Standard
Topic 7G: Case Study—VeriSign’s
Digital Certificates
Lesson 8: Digital Signatures
Topic 8A:
Signatures as Identifiers
Topic 8B: Features of Digital Signatures
Topic
8C: Digital Signatures in Practice
Topic 8D: Standards for Digital
Signatures
Topic 8E: Digital Signatures and PKI
Appendix A: About
FIPS PUB
Federal Information Processing Standards
Publication
Appendix B: PKI-related Acronyms
PKI-related
Acronyms |
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