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Fundamental of Network Security Syllabus

This course provides students with an understanding of fundamental network security concepts. Upon completion, students will be able to examine and describe general network security fundamentals and implement basic network security configuration techniques. The course objectives cover topics such as network devices, routing protocols, network topologies, IP addressing, subnetting, DHCP, NAT, packet encapsulation, OSI and TCP models, encryption, PKI, firewall configuration, and network monitoring.

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Fundamental of Network Security Syllabus

This course provides students with an understanding of fundamental network security concepts. Upon completion, students will be able to examine and describe general network security fundamentals and implement basic network security configuration techniques. The course objectives cover topics such as network devices, routing protocols, network topologies, IP addressing, subnetting, DHCP, NAT, packet encapsulation, OSI and TCP models, encryption, PKI, firewall configuration, and network monitoring.

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Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Academy - Network Security Fundamentals Syllabus

Course Description:

This course provides the student with an understanding of the fundamental tenants of network
security and covers the general concepts involved in maintaining a secure network computing
environment. Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to examine,
describe general network security fundamentals and implement basic network security
configuration techniques.

Course Objectives:

Upon completion of this course students will be able to perform the following:

• Identify the common enterprise network devices.


• Differentiate between routed and routing protocols.
• Recognize the various types of area networks and topologies.
• Describe the Domain Name System DNS, FQDN, and IoT.
• Recognize decimal binary, and hexadecimal conversion methods.
• Describe the structure and fields of an IP header, IPV4, and IPV6 addresses.
• Subnet an IPV4 Class C addressing scheme and configure an IP address on the firewall.
• Review the four DHCP process messages and Network Address Translation (NAT).
• Setup the firewall as a DHCP server and test the DHCP client.
• Recognize packet encapsulation and the lifecycle process.
• Identify protocols and define the OSI and TCP model layers.
• Review the transport layer protocols, ports, and packet filtering procedures.
• Create and analyze packet captures using Wireshark.
• Classify various endpoint and network security technologies.
• Identify common network security encryption algorithms and key management concepts.
• Recognize symmetric/asymmetric key rotation techniques and PKI.
• Generate a Self-Signed Root Certificate Authority (CA) certificate.
• Create a decryption policy on the firewall to decrypt SSH traffic and SSL traffic.
• Describe the benefits of the next generation firewall single pass architecture.
• Identify the NGFW App-ID, User-ID, Content-ID and deployment options.
• Explore the five steps required to implement a NGFW zero-trust environment.
• Recognize network baselines, documentation, tools, and diagrams.
• Configure the NGFW to monitor, forward, and backup system logs (Syslog).

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