1.Cybersecurity Landscape
-Modern computing trends
-New application framework and threat vectors
-Turbulence in the cloud
-SaaS application risks
-Compliance and security are not the same
-Recent high-profile cyber-attack examples

2.Cyberthreats
-Attacker profiles and motivations
-Modern cyber-attack strategy

3.Endpoint security basics

4.Cyber-attack Techniques and Types
-Malware
-Vulnerabilities and exploits
-Spamming and phishing
-Bots and botnets
Spamming botnets
DDoS botnets
Financial botnets

5.Wi-Fi and Advanced Persistent Threats
-Wi-Fi vulnerabilities
Wired equivalent privacy
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA2/WPA3)
-Wi-Fi man-in-the-middle attacks
Evil Twin
Jasager
SSLstrip
-Advanced Persistent Threats

1.Security Operating Platform

2.Network Security
-Next-generation firewalls
Application identification
User Identification
Content identification
Log correlation and reporting
-Palo Alto Networks Expedition (Migration Tool)
-Network security management (Panorama)

3.Endpoint Protection
-Advanced endpoint protection (Traps)
Malware prevention
Exploit prevention
Traps deployment architecture
Traps in action
-Mobile security and VPN management (GlobalProtect)

4.Cloud Security
-Cloud monitoring and compliance (Evident)
-SaaS security (Aperture)
SaaS threat prevention
Data exposure visibility
Contextual data exposure control
Advanced document classification
Retroactive policy

5.Application Framework and Logging Service
-Behavioral analytics (Magnifier)
-Log management (Logging Service)
-Threat intelligence (AutoFocus)
Priority alerts and tags
Threat correlation
Actionable intelligence
-Threat indicator sharing (MineMeld)
-Malware analysis (WildFire)
Behavior-based cyberthreat discovery
Threat prevention with global intelligence sharing
Integrated logging, reporting, and forensics

1.The Connected Globe
-The NET: How things connect
-Introduction to networking devices
-Routed and routing protocols
-Area networks and topologies
-Domain Name System (DNS)

2.Physical, Logical, and Virtual Addressing
-IP addressing basics
-Introduction to subnetting

3.Packet Encapsulation and Lifecycle
-The OSI and TCP/IP models
-Data encapsulation

4.Network Security Models
-Perimeter-based network security strategy
-Zero Trust security
Core Zero Trust design principles
Zero Trust conceptual architecture
Key Zero Trust criteria and capabilities
Implementing a Zero Trust design

5.Cloud and Data Center Security
-Cloud computing depends on virtualization
-Cloud computing security considerations and requirements
-Traditional data security solution weaknesses
-East-west traffic protection
-Implementing security in virtualized data centers

6.Network Security Technologies
-Firewalls
Packet filtering firewalls
Stateful packet inspection (SPI) firewalls
Application firewalls
-Intrusion detection and prevention systems
-Web content filters
-Virtual private networks
Point-to-point tunneling protocol)
Layer 2 tunneling protocol
Secure socket tunneling protocol
Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption
OpenVPN
Internet Protocol Security
Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
-Data loss prevention
-Unified Threat Management
- Security information and event management

7.Endpoint security
-Anti-malware
Signature-based
Container-based
Application whitelisting
Anomaly detection
-Anti-spyware
-Personal firewalls
-Host-based Intrusion Prevention Systems (HIPS)
-Mobile device management

8.Cloud, Virtualization, and Storage Security
-Cloud computing
-Virtualization
-Local and remote storage

9.Networking Concepts
-Server and system administration
Patch management
Configuration management
-Directory services
-Structured host and network troubleshooting
-ITIL fundamentals
-Help desk and technical support