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Firewalls and Intrusion Detection

by Daniel Lachance

Pluralsight is not an official partner or accredited training center of EC-Council. This course will cover what you need to know about security solutions from concepts to implementation.

What you'll learn

Pluralsight is not an official partner or accredited training center of EC-Council. Malicious users and software continuously scan networks looking for vulnerable devices and hosts. In this course, Firewalls and Intrusion Detection, you'll acquire the ability to determine how various types of firewalls should be deployed in your specific environment. First, you'll discover how to implement an intrusion detection system to detect suspicious activity. Next, you'll learn how to determine between honeypots and honeynets. Finally, you'll explore how honeynets and honeypots can be used as IT system decoys to track intruder actions in order to learn how production systems should be hardened. When you have completed this course, you will have the skills to implement various types of firewalls for specific environments.

About the author

Daniel Lachance, CompTIA Security+, CompTIA A+®, CompTIA Network+®, CompTIA Server+, CompTIA Cloud Essentials, MCITP, MCTS, MCSA, is the owner of Lachance IT Consulting Inc. He is the author of the CompTIA Server+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide, CompTIA Cloud Essentials Certification Study Guide, and co-author of CompTIA Security+ Certification Practice Exams. Mr. Lachance is an experienced trainer having delivered IT training in Canada and the Caribbean since the 1990s on topics ranging f... more

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