Course Description

CyberFirst Academy

Course curriculum

  • 1

    About the Security + Exam

    • Exam Details

    • EXAM OBJECTIVES (DOMAINS)

    • Exam objectives PDF
  • 2

    1.0 Threats, Attacks and Vulnerabilities

    • Threats: Virus, Trojan, Logic bomb, Worm, Bot, Rootkit,Spyware, Spam

    • Ransomware and Crypto-maware

    • RAT and Backdoors

    • Keyloggers

    • Course Objectives Check

    • Adware
  • 3

    1.1 Compare and contrast types of attacks

    • Social Engineering

    • Types of Social Engineering

    • Principles (reasons for effectiveness)

    • Application/Service Attacks

    • DoD and DDoS Attack

    • Man- in -the- Middle Attack
  • 4

    2.0 Technologies and Tools

    • Types of Security controls

    • TCP/IP

    • Application Layer

    • Transport / Host to Host Layer

    • Internet Layer

    • Firewall

    • VPN concentrator

    • NIPS/NIDS

    • Router

    • Switch

    • Proxy

    • Load balancer

    • Access point

    • SIEM

    • DLP

    • NAC

    • Mail gateway

    • Bridge

    • SSL/TLS accelerators

    • SSL decryptors

    • Media gateway

    • Hardware security module
  • 5

    Types of Security Controls

    • 20201010_001422[1]
  • 6

    Chapter 2

    • DMZ

    • DMZ 2

    • Internet and Intranet

    • Extranet

    • TCP 3 Way Handshake

    • Common Ports

    • Ports 2
  • 7

    1.3 Explain threat actors

    • Script Kiddies