
Explore intrusion prevention systems and how crafted packets masquerade as valid to gain unauthorized access, and how worms and trojans affect network performance.
Identify, classify, and block unusual traffic with an intrusion prevention system (IPS), monitoring network flows, logging incidents, and alerting administrators when threats are detected.
IDS (intrusion detection system) detects attacks and alerts management, while IPS (intrusion prevention system) detects and prevents by blocking traffic and resetting connections through the firewall.
Host-based ips install on end devices to monitor local changes, while network-based ips operate inline as transparent sensors that capture, analyze, and log suspicious traffic.
Explain inline versus promiscuous IDS deployments: inline blocks at the gateway on signature matches, while promiscuous copies traffic to sensors for analysis, trading latency for stealth.
Explore Cisco ips solutions and deployment options across dedicated appliances, router and firewall integrations, and software models, highlighting next-generation features, platform variety, and advanced intrusion prediction.
The IPS uses signature-based detection to compare traffic with a signature database, deny matches, and generate alerts; it also relies on policy-based and reputation-based detection guided by behavior with updates.
Explore IPS signature alarm types, distinguishing when signatures match or do not match; understand true meaning malicious traffic is predicted, false meaning normal traffic, and when alarms are generated.
Configure IPS signatures to trigger actions when traffic matches, generating alerts, logging activity, and resetting or blocking attacker packets.
Explore attacker evasion techniques against intrusion detection, including encryption, timing attacks, fragmentation, and misinterpretation, and learn countermeasures such as traffic reassembly, TTL validation, and data normalization to harden IPS defenses.
Explore common web-based attack threats from the internet, including malware, malicious traffic in web pages, data leakage, and encrypted pages that hinder monitoring of traffic.
Block malicious web traffic with firewall configurations, guard against harmful downloads, and enforce rules to restrict risky sites and data leakage while using Cisco security solutions.
Cisco web security offers on-premise and cloud-based solutions that inspect traffic to block malicious sites. It caches and validates requests, enforces security policies, and protects remote and office users.
Explore how the WSA provides caching and proxy services, storing frequently requested pages locally to speed access. It also enforces security policies, blocks restricted sites, and monitors traffic.
Explore two deployment modes for the WSA: explicit proxy mode with a preconfigured browser, and scalable transparent proxy mode that redirects traffic through the security gateway.
Explore common email threats, including spam, phishing, and malicious attachments, that compromise systems and steal credentials by deceiving users into clicking links or downloading malware.
Discover Cisco Email Security (ESA) and CES as cloud and on-prem gateways. Learn how centralized filtering and policy configuration protect inbound and outbound emails from spam and malware.
This Course is designed to prepare CCNA Security candidates for the exam topics covered by the 210-260 IINS exam.
This is Last of 6 parts of the Complete CCNA Security 210-260 Exam..
This course allows learners to understand common security concepts, and deploy basic security techniques utilizing a variety of popular security appliances within a "real-life" network infrastructure. It focuses on security principles and technologies, using Cisco security products to provide hands-on examples.
This Cisco self-paced course is designed to be as effective as classroom training.
Course content is presented in easily-consumable segments via both Instructor Video and text. Makes the learning experience hands-on, increasing course effectiveness
The revised CCNA Security (IINS v3.0) curriculum is designed to bring data, device, and administration together to have better network security, which is more relevant and valuable than ever. It is destined to meet the current business demand so that the network security professionals are able to acquire new knowledge, training and vital skills to be successful in evolving job roles.
1. Security Concepts – This section includes security principles, threats, cryptography, and network topologies. It constitutes 12% of the questions asked in the exam.
2. Secure Access – This section deals with secure management, AAA concepts, 802.1X authentication, and BYOD. It makes 14% of the exam.
3. VPN (Virtual Private Networks) – This focuses on VPN concepts, remote access VPNs, and site-to-site VPNs. It is 17% of the exam.
4. Secure Routing & Switching – This section concentrates on VLAN security, mitigation techniques, layer 2 attacks, routing protocols, and overall security of Cisco routers. That is 18% of the exam.
5. Cisco Firewall Technologies – This section is 18% of the exam and focuses on stateful and stateless firewalls, proxy firewalls, application, and personal firewalls. Additionally, it concentrates on Network Address Translation (NAT) and other features of Cisco ASA 9.x.
6. IPS – It is 9% of the exam and this portion focuses on network-based and host-based IPS, deployment, and IPS technologies.
7. Content and Endpoint Security –Constituting 12% of the exam, this section checks your understanding on the endpoint, web-based, and email-based threats. Later it leads to apt and effective mitigation technology and techniques to counter those threats.