CYB-223 Firewall Essentials
3 Credit hours - 1 Lecture, 2 Lab
Prerequisite(s): Grade of "C" or better in CYB 123.
New SU26: Change to: Grade of "C" or better in CYB-114
Course Rationale:
In today's digital-centric world, our digital way of life needs to be protected. This course is designed to provide a comprehensive experience with network firewalls. Students will learn the role and impact as well as the importance of setting up and configuring next generation enterprise network firewalls. The ability to prevent successful cyberattacks and safely enable application communications is vital to the skillset of a network security technician.
Catalog Description:
This course provides the student with a thorough understanding of how to install, configure, and manage firewalls for defense of enterprise network architecture. Students will learn the theory and extended configuration features and necessary steps for setting up the security, networking, threat prevention, logging, reporting features, traffic handling, advanced content/user identification, quality of service, global protect, monitoring/reporting and high availability of next generation firewall technologies.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
Review industry leading firewall platforms, architecture, and defense capability related to zero trust security models and public cloud security.
Demonstrate and apply configuration of firewall initial access, interfaces, security zones, virtual routing, filtering, licensing, service routes, software updates, and policy-based forwarding.
Analyze security policy administrative concepts related to source and destination network address translation.
Outline and construct security policies to identify known and unknown application software running on the service network.
Differentiate, configure, and deploy filtering technologies such as anti-virus, antispyware, and file blocking, to protect against telemetry induced attack vectors.
Construct and deploy uniform resource locator profiles for attachment to next generation firewall security policies.
Core Outcomes
Test Out Requirements
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