Certified Network Defender (CND)
Certified Network Defender
Duration - 5 Days
1. INTRODUCTION
CNDv2 Module 01: Network Attacks and Defense Strategies
LO#01: Explain essential terminologies related to network security attacks
LO#02: Describe the various examples of network-level attack techniques
LO#03: Describe the various examples of application-level attack techniques
LO#04: Describe the various examples of social engineering attack techniques
LO#05: Describe the various examples of email attack techniques
LO#06: Describe the various examples of mobile device-specific attack techniques
LO#07: Describe the various examples of cloud-specific attack techniques
LO#08: Describe the various examples of wireless network-specific attack techniques
LO#09: Describe Attacker’s Hacking Methodologies and Frameworks
LO#10: Understand fundamental goal, benefits, and challenges in network defense
LO#11: Explain Continual/Adaptive security strategy
LO#12: Explain defense-in-depth security strategyLO#11: Explain Continual/Adaptive security strategy
Module 02 Administrative Network Security
LO#01: Learn to obtain compliance with regulatory framework and standards
LO#02: Discuss various Regulatory Frameworks, Laws, and Acts
LO#03: Learn to design and develop security policies
LO#04: Learn to conduct different type security and awareness training
LO#05: Learn to implement other administrative security measures
Module 03: Technical Network Security
LO#01: Discuss access control principles, terminologies, and models
LO#02: Redefine the Access Control in Today’s Distributed and Mobile Computing World
LO#03: Discuss Identity and Access Management (IAM):
LO#04: Discuss cryptographic security techniques
LO#05: Discuss various cryptographic algorithms
LO#06: Discuss security benefits of network segmentation techniques
LO#07: Discuss various essential network security solutions
LO# 08: Discuss various essential network security protocols
Module 04 Network Perimeter Security
LO#01: Understand firewall security concerns, capabilities, and limitations
LO#02: Understand different types of firewall technologies and their usage
LO#03: Understand firewall topologies and their usage
LO#04: Distinguish between hardware, software, host, network, internal, and external firewalls
LO#05: Select firewalls based on its deep traffic inspection capability
LO#06: Discuss firewall implementation and deployment process
LO#07: Discuss recommendations and best practices for secure firewall Implementation and deployment
LO#08: Discuss firewall administration concepts
LO#09: Understand role, capabilities, limitations, and concerns in IDS deployment
LO#10: Discuss IDS classification
LO#11: Discuss various components of ID
LO#12: Discuss effective deployment of network and host-based IDS
LO#13: Learn to how to deal with false positive and false negative IDS/IPS alerts
LO#14: Discuss the considerations for selection of an appropriate IDS/IPS solutions
LO#15: Discuss various NIDS and HIDS Solutions with their intrusion detection capabilities Snort
LO#16: Discuss router and switch security measures, recommendations, and best practices
LO#17: Leverage Zero Trust Model Security using Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP)
Module 05 Endpoint Security-Windows Systems
LO#01: Understand Window OS and Security Concerns
LO#02: Discuss Windows Security Components
LO#03: Discuss Various Windows Security Features
LO#04: Discuss Windows Security Baseline Configurations
LO#05: Discuss Windows User Account and Password Management
LO#06: Discuss Windows Patch Management
LO#07: Discuss User Access Management
LO#08: Windows OS Security Hardening Techniques
LO#09: Discuss Windows Active Directory Security Best Practices
LO#10: Discuss Windows Network Services and Protocol Security
Module 06 Endpoint Security-Linux Systems
LO#01: Understand Linux OS and security concerns
LO#02: Discuss Linux Installation and Patching
LO#03: Discuss Linux OS Hardening Techniques
LO#04: Discuss Linux User Access and Password Management
LO#05: Discuss Linux Network Security and Remote Access
LO#06: Discuss Various Linux Security Tools and Frameworks
Module 07 Endpoint Security- Mobile Devices
LO#01: Common Mobile Usage Policies in Enterprises
LO#02: Discuss Security Risk and Guidelines associated with Enterprises mobile usage policies
LO#04: Discuss and implement various enterprise-level mobile security management Solutions
LO#05: Discuss and implement general security guidelines and best practices on Mobile platforms
LO#06: Discuss Security guidelines and tools for Android devices
LO#07: Discuss Security guidelines and tools for iOS devices
Module 08 Endpoint Security-IoT Devices
LO#01: Understanding IoT Devices, their need and Application Areas
LO#02: Understanding IoT Ecosystem and Communication models
LO#03: Understand Security Challenges and risks associated with IoT-enabled environments
LO#04: Discuss the security in IoT-enabled environments
LO#05: Discuss Security Measures for IoT enabled IT Environments
LO#06: Discuss IoT Security Tools and Best Practices
LO#07: Discuss and refer various standards, Initiatives and Efforts for IoT Security
Module 09 Administrative Application Security
LO#01: Discuss and implement Application Whitelisting and Blacklisting
LO#02: Discuss and implement application Sandboxing
LO#03: Discuss and implement Application Patch Management
LO#04: Discuss and implement Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Module 10: Data Security
LO#1: Understand data security and its importance
LO##2: Discuss the implementation of data access controls
LO#03: Discuss the implementation of Encryption of Data at rest
LO#04: Discuss the implementation of Encryption of “Data at transit”
LO#05: Discuss Data Masking Concepts
LO#06: Discuss data backup and retention
LO#07: Discuss Data Destruction Concepts
LO#08: Data Loss Prevention Concepts
Module 11: Enterprise Virtual Network Security
LO#01: Discuss the evolution of network and security management concept in modern Virtualized IT Environments
LO#02: Understand Virtualization Essential Concepts
LO#03: Discus Network Virtualization (NV) Security
LO#04: Discuss SDN Security
LO#05: Discuss Network Function Virtualization (NFV) Security
LO#06: Discus OS Virtualization Security
LO#07: Discuss Security Guidelines, Recommendations and Best Practices for Containers
LO#08: Discuss Security Guidelines, Recommendations and Best practices for Dockers
LO#09: Discuss Security Guidelines, Recommendations and Best Practices for Kubernetes
Module 12: Enterprise Cloud Security
LO#01: Understand Cloud Computing Fundamentals
LO#02: Understanding the Insights of Cloud Security
LO#03: Evaluate CSP for Security before Consuming Cloud Service
LO#04: Discuss security in Amazon Cloud (AWS)
LO#05: Discuss security in Microsoft Azure Cloud
LO#06: Discuss security in Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
LO#07: Discuss general security best practices and tools for cloud security
Module 13: Wireless Network Security
LO#01: Understand wireless network fundamentals
LO#02: Understand wireless network encryption mechanisms
LO#03: Understand wireless network authentication methods
LO#04: Discuss and implement wireless network security measures
Module 14: Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
LO#01: Understand the need and advantages of network traffic monitoring
LO#02: Setting up the environment for network monitoring
LO#03: Determine baseline traffic signatures for normal and suspicious network traffic
LO#04: Perform network monitoring and analysis for suspicious traffic using Wireshark
LO#06: Discuss network performance and bandwidth monitoring tools and techniques
Module 15: Network Logs Monitoring and Analysis
LO#01: Understand logging concepts
LO#02: Discuss log monitoring and analysis on Windows systems
LO#03: Discuss log monitoring and analysis on Linux
LO#04: Discuss log monitoring and analysis on Mac
LO#05: Discuss log monitoring and analysis in Firewall
LO#06: Discuss log monitoring and analysis on Routers
LO#07: Discuss log monitoring and analysis on Web Servers
LO#08: Discuss centralized log monitoring and analysis
Module 16 Incident Response and Forensic Investigation
LO#01: Understand incident response concept
LO#02: Understand the role of first responder in incident response
LO#03: Discuss Do’s and Don’t in first response
LO#04: Describe incident handling and response process
LO#05: Describe forensics investigation process
Module 17 Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
LO#01: Introduction to Business Continuity (BC) and Disaster Recovery (DR) concepts
LO#02: Discuss BC/DR Activities
LO#03: Explain Business Continuity Plan (BCP) and Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
LO#04: Discuss BC/DR Standards
Module 18 Risk Anticipation with Risk Management
LO#01: Understand risk management concepts
LO#02: Learn to manage risk though risk management program
LO#03: Learn different Risk Management Frameworks (RMF)
LO#04: Learn to manage vulnerabilities through vulnerability management program
LO#05: Learn vulnerability Assessment and Scanning
Module 19 Threat Assessment with Attack Surface Analysis
LO#01: Understand the attack surface concepts
LO#02: Learn to understand and visualize your attack surface
LO#03: Learn to identify Indicators of Exposures (IoE)
LO#04: Learn to perform attack simulation
LO#05: Learn to reduce the attack surfacev
LO#06: Discuss attack surface analysis specific to Cloud and IoT
Module 20 Threat Prediction with Cyber Threat Intelligence
LO#01: Understand role of cyber threat intelligence in network defense
LO#02: Understand the types of threat Intelligence
LO#03: Understand the Indicators of Threat Intelligence: Indicators of Compromise (IoCs) and Indicators of Attack (IoA)
LO#04: Understand the layers of Threat Intelligence
LO#05: Learn to leverage/consume threat intelligence for proactive defense