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General

Course Syllabus

Unit 1: Introduction to Information Security

1.1: The History and Evolution of Information Security

1.2: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability – The CIA Triad

1.3: Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Risks

1.4: The Risk Management Process

1.5: The Incident Response Process

1.6: Security Control

1.7: Defense-in-Depth

1.8: Human Behavioral Risks

1.9: Security Frameworks

Unit 1 Assessment

Unit 2: Threats and Attack Modes

2.1: Threat Terminology

2.2: Types of Attacks

2.3: Spoofing Attacks

2.4: Social Engineering

2.5: Application Attacks

2.6: Web Application Attacks

2.7: Malware attacks

2.8: Denial of Service (DoS) and Distributed Denail of Service (DDoS)

Unit 2 Assessment

Unit 3: Cryptographic Models

3.1: Cryptographic History

3.1.1: The Caesar Cipher

3.1.2: One-Time Pads

3.2: Goals of Cryptography

3.3.1: Symmetric Key Algorithms

3.3.2: Asymmetric Key Algorithms

3.3.3: Hashing Algorithms

3.4.1: Symmetric Key Algorithms

3.4.1.1: DES

3.4.1.2: 3DES

3.4.1.3: AES

3.4.1.4: Ciphers (RC4, RC5, RC6, Blowfish, Twofish)

3.4.2: Asymmetric Key Algorithms

3.4.2.1: RSA

3.4.2.2: DSA

3.4.2.3: Pretty Good Privacy (PGP)

3.4.2.4: GPG

3.4.2.5: Diffie-Hellman

3.4.2.6: Elliptic-Curve Cryptography

3.5: Hashing Algorithms

3.5.1: Digital Certificates

3.5.2: Message Digest 5 (MD5)

3.5.3: Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-0, SHA-1, SHA-2, and SHA-3)

3.5.4: Hashed Message Authentication Code (HMAC)

Unit 3 Assessment

Unit 4: Access Control

4.1: Access Control

4.2: Access Control Terminology

4.3: Access Control Models

4.3.1: Mandatory Access Control (MAC) and Discretionary Access Control (DAC)

4.3.2: Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

4.3.3: Rule-Based Access Control (RB-RBAC)

Unit 4 Assessment

Unit 5: Identification and Authentication

5.1: Identification

5.2: Authentication Types

5.3: Human Authentication Factors

5.4: Authentication Forms

5.5: Authentication Protocols: RADIUS, TACACS+, PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP, and EAP

5.6: Single Sign-On (SSO)

5.7: Public-Key Infrastructure (PKI)

Unit 5 Assessment

Unit 6: Network Security

6.1: Network Security Design

6.2: Firewalls

6.3: Wireless Networks

6.4: Network Protection

6.5: Web Security

Unit 6 Assessment

Unit 7: Operating System (OS) Security

7.1: OS Hardening

7.2: OS Protection Methods

7.3: OS Firewalls

7.4: OS Security Tools

Unit 7 Assessment

Unit 8: Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems