Security+ Essentials
- About Security+ Essentials
- Mandatory, Discretionary, Role and Rule Based Access Control
- Authentication and Identity Verification
- An Overview of IT Security Threats and Attacks
- TCP and UDP Based Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks
- Back Door Attacks
- IP and DNS Spoofing Attacks
- Man in the Middle Attacks
- Replay Attacks
- TCP/IP Hijacking
- Mathematical Attacks
- Password Guessing
- Brute Force Password Attacks
- Dictionary Password Attacks
- Password Cracking
- Software Exploitation, Malicious Code and Social Engineering
- Identifying Common and Nonessential TCP/IP Ports and Services
- Understanding Communications Security
- Remote Access
- Virtual Private Network (VPN) Communications
- Point-to-Point-Tunneling Protocol (PPTP)
- Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP)
- Internet Protocol Security (IPSec)
- 802.11x Wireless Connections
- Dial-Up Access
- Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS)
- Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS)
- Terminal Access Controller Access Control System Plus(TACACS+)
- Secure Shell (SSH)
- The Basics of Email and Web Security
- IT Infrastructure Security
- Understanding Firewalls
- Packet-Filtering Firewalls
- Proxy Service Firewalls
- Stateful Inspection Firewalls
- Routers
- Switches
- Wireless
- DSL and Cable Modems
- Remote Access Service (RAS)
- Telecom/PBX
- Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
- Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs)
- Network Monitoring and Diagnostics
- Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
- IT Media Security Basics
- Network Security Topologies
- Intrusion Detection Systems
- An Overview of Intrusion Detection Systems
- IDS Architecture
- Host-based Intrusion Detections Systems (HIDS)
- Strengths of Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems
- Weaknesses of Host-based Intrusion Detection Systems
- Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS)
- Strengths of Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems
- Weaknesses of Network-based Intrusion Detection Systems
- Responding to Incidents
- Security Baselines and Operating System, Network and Application Hardening
- Cryptography Basics
- What is Cryptography?
- Algorithms
- Hashing Algorithms
- Symmetric Encryption Algorithms
- Data Encryption Standard (DES)
- Triple DES (3DES)
- Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
- Blowfish
- International Data Encryption Algorithm (IDEA)
- CAST
- Rivest Cipher (RC2, RC3, RC4, RC5, RC6)
- Asymmetric Algorithms
- RSA
- Diffie-Hellman
- ElGamal
- Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC)
- Cryptography Usage
- Confidentiality
- Integrity
- Nonrepudiation
- Authentication
- Digital Signatures