Course Description

Certified Network Defender (CND) is an instructor-led, vendor-neutral, hands-on network security certification training programme. It is a skills-based, lab-intensive curriculum based on the National Infocomm Competency Framework’s security education framework and work role task analysis, as well as the National Initiative of Cybersecurity Education’s job-task analysis and cybersecurity education framework (NICE). The course has also been matched to worldwide job positions as well as DoD job roles for system/network administrators.

The curriculum teaches network administrators how to determine which components of an organisation should be inspected and tested for security vulnerabilities, as well as how to reduce, avoid, and mitigate network risks. CND addresses network security by protecting, detecting, responding, and predicting.

Course Outline

• Module 01: Network Attacks and Defense Strategies
• Module 02: Administrative Network Security
• Module 03: Technical Network Security
• Module 04: Network Perimeter Security
• Module 05: Endpoint Security-Windows Systems
• Module 06: Endpoint Security-Linux Systems
• Module 07: Endpoint Security- Mobile Devices
• Module 08: Endpoint Security-IoT Devices
• Module 09: Administrative Application Security
• Module 10: Data Security
• Module 11: Enterprise Virtual Network Security
• Module 12: Enterprise Cloud Network Security
• Module 13: Enterprise Wireless Network Security
• Module 14: Network Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
• Module 15: Network Logs Monitoring and Analysis
• Module 16: Incident Response and Forensic Investigation
• Module 17: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
• Module 18: Risk Anticipation with Risk Management
• Module 19: Threat Assessment with Attack Surface Analysis
• Module 20: Threat Prediction with Cyber Threat Intelligence