Certified Network Defender (CND)

Learn how to protect, detect, and respond to network attacks and attain defence-in-depth security. Certified Network Defender (CND) is designed to help organizations create and deploy the most comprehensive network defence system.

This course addresses the fundamentals of network defence. You’ll learn to apply network security controls, protocols, and perimeter appliances. It also covers secure IDS and VPN, firewall configuration, network traffic signatures, analysis, and vulnerability scanning. All of which will help you design network security policies and incident response plans.

CND focuses on the latest technologies: IoT, attack surface analysis, threat intelligence, software-defined networks (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), Docker, Kubernetes, and container security.

Who is it for?

Certified Network Defender is recommended for individuals who have a fundamental knowledge of networking concepts. It is highly recommended for:

• Network Administrators

• IT Administrators

• Network Engineers

• Data Analysts

• Network Technicians

Course Outline

• Network attacks and defence strategies

• Administrative network security

• Technical network security

• Network perimeter security

• Endpoint security for Windows systems

• Endpoint security for Linux systems

• Endpoint security for Mobile devices

• Endpoint security for IoT devices

• Administrative application security

• Data security

• Enterprise virtual network security

• Enterprise cloud network security

• Enterprise wireless network security

• Network traffic monitoring and analysis

• Network log monitoring and analysis

• Incident response and forensic investigation

• Business continuity and disaster recovery

• Risk anticipation with risk management

• Threat assessment with attack surface analysis

• Threat prediction with cyber-threat intelligence