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NET 562 - Firewall Security


Last Date of Approval: Fall 2022

3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 30
Total Lab Hours: 30
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0

Course Description:
This course focuses on the installation, setup and configuration of current firewall and VPN appliances along with the management tools. The course focuses on how to securely setup and configure a firewall and VPN network and network defenses. This course will help students refine their critical thinking skills as they evaluate various technology topics and concepts while searching for underlying connections between the technology and how to apply those concepts in a lab setting, which is a skill that should be beneficial in any/all types of technology careers. This course will also help students gain hands on technology literacy which will be of vital significance when making important work-related decisions.

Prerequisites: NET 178  , NET 110  , NET 138  
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face, virtual, and/or online

Credit for Prior Learning: This course offers an opportunity for students to earn Credit for Prior Learning for skills that they have brought with them to Iowa Central. For more information, please ask the instructor and see the Iowa Central Community College catalog.

Course Fees: Face-to-Face: None; Online: 8-week online students will have a per credit hour e-book fee automatically charged to their account.

Common Course Assessment(s): None

Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Student Learning Outcomes:

•   Apply a basic understanding of Information security to a network setup
•   Examine the impact of Policies and Standards
•    Apply a basic understanding of Firewall Configuration and Administration
•    Apply a basic understanding of Encryption and Setting Up a Virtual Private Network


Course Objectives: 

•    Discuss information security 
•    Justify security policies and standards 
•    Examine authenticating users
•    Discuss the roles of firewalls in a network
•    Evaluate and access packet filtering
•    Evaluate firewall configuration and administration
•    Describe the theory in working with proxy servers and application-level firewalls 
•    Implementing the bastion host in a network
•    Implementing encryption for the virtual private network
•    Relate setting up a virtual private network



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