Course description
This course covers the following network security topics: network security devices and placement, network topologies and security zones, and network segregation, segmentation and isolation. It briefly introduces a wide variety of security device types, from sensors to firewalls and load balancers. The terms intranet, extranet and demilitarized zone (DMZ) are defined and explained, along with the concepts of Network Address Translation (NAT) and honeynets. The segregation/segmentation/isolation part of the course provides a basic understanding of physical and logical separation and explains the VPN tunneling mechanism.

Syllabus
Zones and Topologies
Video — 00:03:24
Segregation Segmentation and Isolation
Video — 00:03:49
Security Devices and Placement
Video — 00:07:30
Basic Networking Utilities
Lab — 00:14:00
This lab introduces the most popular command-line tools for testing and troubleshooting network connections, including ping, netstat, traceroute, tcpdump and others.
IProute2 and Net-Tools
Lab — 00:13:00
This lab has us working with Net-Tools and IPRoute2. Both of these network utilities accomplish many of the same goals and we will demonstrate the equivalent commands between them.
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