Upon the completion of the course, the student should be able to:

1. Explain the fundamental concepts of network security.
2. Describe the fundamental functions performed by firewalls and apply firewall management best practices.
3. Demonstrate and apply the configuration of firewall initial access, interfaces, and security zones, etc.
4. Describe the foundational concepts of VPNs and describe VPN best practices and learn to write a VPN policy.
5. Configure VPN Network Server and clients for secure file transfers.
6. Identify network threats and vulnerabilities within the seven domains of a typical information technology (IT) infrastructure.
7. Explain elements of network security designs, state the importance of system hardening.
8. Identify the security concerns of local hosts as well as remote and mobile hosts.
9. Describe network security best practices, the importance of physical, and methods of network security assessment.
10. Learn to design common firewall rules and policies.
11. Understand and compare industry-leading firewall platforms, architecture, and defense capability.
12. Learn to install and configure firewalls.
13. Differentiate, configure and deploy filtering technologies such as antivirus, anti-spyware and file blocking.
14. Construct and deploy URL profile for attachment to next-generation firewall security policies.