Course description
This course introduces diverse infrastructure components and how those components are used to provide web server services. You’ll refresh or expand your knowledge of web servers, the cloud, content delivery networks, firewalls, load balancers, web application firewalls, intrusion detection systems and file integrity monitoring.
Syllabus
Web Servers
Video — 00:12:01
Introduction to web servers and popular web server software.
The Cloud
Video — 00:12:46
Introduction to the cloud: characteristics, service models and popular cloud vendors.
CDN
Video — 00:13:30
Introduction to content delivery networks and their benefits.
Web Server Security
Video — 00:20:22
Introduction to defense-in-depth for web server security.
Firewalls
Video — 00:09:05
Introduction to firewalls.
Load Balancers
Video — 00:10:50
Introduction to load balancers.
Web Application Firewall
Video — 00:25:57
Introduction to web application firewall.
Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)
Video — 00:25:07
Introduction to intrusion detection and prevention systems.
File Integrity Monitoring
Video — 00:08:08
Introduction to file integrity monitoring.
Meet the author
Manuel Leos Rivas earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Computer Systems Engineering at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo Leon in Mexico and a Master of Science in Information Security Engineering with focus on Incident Response at the SANS Technology Institute. He holds over 50 cybersecurity-related certifications from GIAC, CompTIA, isc2, and AWS, among others.
Manuel has worked in cybersecurity for over 20 years in four different countries. He started his career in IT/Information security in 2000 as Network and Firewall Administrator in Mexico. Later in 2007, he switched to information security as Security Analyst and compliance coordinator.
In 2011, he started working for Gemalto (now Thales DIS). Gemalto relocated Manuel to France as Solution Security Expert and a few years later to Canada to work as Cloud Security Engineer for Gemalto. At Gemalto, Manuel managed ModSecurity Web Applications Firewalls protecting over a thousand websites and applications. He implemented hardening and multiple SIEMs in highly secured environments for large multinational companies in diverse sectors like banking and mobile network operators.
Since 2016, Manuel has committed part of his time to improving the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set as one of the OWASP CRS developers and contributed numerous improvements to the project.
AWS Canada hired Manuel in 2019 as Cloud Security Architect to provide professional services to Public Sector companies, including government, education, health, insurance, and power utilities.
In 2021 Manuel relocated to the United States of America to work for Backblaze as Cloud Security Architect.
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Associated NICE Work Roles
All Infosec training maps directly to the NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity to guide you from beginner to expert across 52 Work Roles.
- All-Source Analyst
- Mission Assessment Specialist
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