IT Professional Curricula     Internet and Network Technologies Solution Area     CompTIA Network+     CompTIA Network+ N10-007

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In this course, you'll explore various types of attacks that can compromise a network, including DoS, insider threats, and ransomware. Also discover network device hardening techniques to reduce vulnerabilities and prepare for exam N10-007.

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Objectives

Network Attacks start the course summarize DoS attacks such as reflective, amplified, and distributed recognize social engineering recognize insider threats describe logic bombs and evil twin attacks describe wardriving and phishing recognize rogue access points and spoofing summarize DNS and ARP poisoning attacks describe ransomware summarize deauthentication and brute force attacks recognize VLAN hopping and man-in-the-middle attacks differentiate between exploits and vulnerabilities Practice: Identify Network Attacks recognize various network attacks Network Device Hardening choose strong passwords update firmware implement patches and updates implement file hashing disable unnecessary services implement secure protocols implement cryptography generate new keys disable unused ports such as IP ports and device ports Practice: Hardening Network Devices implement network device hardening