Target Audience: This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to begin supporting network security within an organization. It has been approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC) for the CompTIA Security+ certification.

Pre-requisites: Before attending this course, students must have the following pre-requisites:

• A minimum of 1 year of experience managing Windows 2000 Server or have equivalent knowledge and skills.

Purpose: At the end of the course, students will be able to explain common attacks against network assets; explain how to use cryptography choose an appropriate encryption method; implement security-enhanced computing baselines; help protect information by using authentication and access control; deploy and manage certificates; help protect transmission of data by identifying threats to network devices and implementing security for common data transmission, remote access, and wireless network traffic; help protect Web servers against common attacks and configure security for Web browsers; help protect e-mail messages and instant messaging from common security threats; identify common security threats and vulnerabilities to directory services and DNS, and then protect them; identify network perimeter threats; identify types of security policies and ensure compliance by users; preserve business continuity by implementing a security-enhanced disaster recovery strategy and performing secure backup and recovery; identify, respond to, and assist in the formal investigation of security incidents.