General Information

Course Duration
3 hours

Audience
A wide range of information technology (IT) professionals and business managers, including IT managers, webmasters, system integrators, Internet/intranet/extranet consultants, departmental managers and strategic IT planners

Prerequisites
The course Internet Security: Internet Site Security

Topics Covered

• Overview of TCP/IP
• TCP/IP services
• Network security

• Introduction to firewalls
• Firewall components
• Packet filtering
• Exercise: Configuring a packet filter

• Application-level and circuit-level gateways
• Stateful inspection

• Firewall policy
• Firewall construction
• Firewall implementations

Course Aim

To demonstrate how to plan and implement a firewall based on a security policy

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the student should be able to

• Describe the TCP/IP protocol and some of the security concerns with it
• Create a network security policy
• Describe the various firewall configurations
• Explain how packet filtering is used
• Construct a packet filter
• Discuss application and circuit-level gateways
• Describe the process of stateful inspection
• Determine where a firewall should be located
• Determine what type of firewall best suits a particular network