Security on routers

The course is best suited for network administrators and network security engineers.

• Security threats and policy (packet sniffers, password attacks, DoS, Man-in-the-middle attacks, application layer attacks, trust abuse, trojan horses, security policy definition)
• Basic security of Cisco routers (passwords, stopping unnecessary services, traffic filtering routing protocol authentication)
• Packet filtering, IOS Firewall (Standard ACL, Extended ACL, Reflexive ACL, IOS Firewall)
• Network Address Translation (NAT - terminology, Static NAT, Dynamic NAT, PAT, Load balancing)
• IOS Intrusion Detection System (Types of samples, Reaction to attacks)
• AAA (Authentication, Autorization, Accounting, TACACS+, Radius)
• Encryption, IPSec (Encryption on different layers, types of encryption, Certificates, Digital signature, IPSec VPN)

Knowledge of internetworking, TCP/IP and basic Cisco router configuration as presented in the A0/INTRO and A1/ICND courses.

Professional explanation with practical samples and examples.

Participants will receive a copy of the presentation.

Previous courses

Fundamentals of Internetworking [A0]

Internetworking and configuration of Cisco routers [A1]

Next courses

Advanced VPN for Cisco Routers [S4]