Free Live On-line Instructor Led Cisco CCNA SECURITY Course

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I've registered but can't attend Lesson 3 due to being abroad... has … I've registered but can't attend Lesson 3 due to being abroad... has anyone else missed a lesson before?Read lessRead more

I missed 2 on the CCNA due to other commitments. He never mentioned it. If it's just the one you are missing, I doubt they'll mind.

wow. intend to do my ccna security by this summer. thanks for this.

I got this from their website, it's the course contents

SESSION 1
Networking Security Concepts
• Security Basics
• Network Security Objectives
• Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Security
• Classifying Assets
• Classifying Vulnerabilities
• Classifying Countermeasures
• What Do We Do with the Risk?
• Recognizing Current Network Threats
• Potential Attackers
• Attack Methods
• Attack Vectors
• Man-in-the-Middle Attacks

Understanding Security Policies Using a Lifecycle Approach
• Risk Analysis and Management
• Secure Network Lifecycle
• Risk Analysis Methods
• Security Posture Assessment
• An Approach to Risk Management
• Regulatory Compliance Affecting Risk
• Security Policies
• Standards, Procedures, and Guidelines
• Testing the Security Architecture
• Responding to an Incident on the Network
• Collecting Evidence
• Reasons for Not Being an Attacker
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning


Network Foundation Protection
• Using Network Foundation Protection to Secure Networks
• The Importance of the Network Infrastructure
• The Network Foundation Protection (NFP) Framework
• Interdependence
• Implementing NFP
• Understanding the Management Plane
• Best Practices for Securing the Management Plane
• Understanding the Control Plane
• Best Practices for Securing the Control Plane
• Understanding the Data Plane
• Best Practices for Protecting the Data Plane
• Additional Data Plane Protection Mechanisms




SESSION 2
Securing the Management Plane on Cisco IOS Devices
• Password Recommendations
• Using AAA to Verify Users
• AAA Components
• Options for Storing Usernames, Passwords, and Access Rules
• Authorizing VPN Users
• Router Access Authentication
• The AAA Method List
• Custom Privilege Levels
• Limiting the Administrator by Assigning a View
• Encrypted Management Protocols
• Using Logging Files
• Understanding NTP
• Protecting Cisco IOS Files
• Implement Security Measures to Protect the Management Plane
• Implementing Strong Passwords
• User Authentication with AAA
• Using the CLI to Troubleshoot AAA for Cisco Routers
• RBAC Privilege Level/Parser View
• Implementing Parser Views
• SSH and HTTPS
• Implementing Logging Features
• Configuring Syslog Support
• SNMP Features
• Configuring NTP
• Securing the Cisco IOS Image and Configuration Files

SESSION 3
Implementing AAA Using IOS and the ACS Server
• Cisco Secure ACS, RADIUS, and TACACS
• Why Use Cisco ACS?
• What Platform Does ACS Run On?
• What Is ISE?
• Protocols Used Between the ACS and the Router
• Protocol Choices Between the ACS Server and the Client (the Router)
• Configuring Routers to Interoperate with an ACS Server
• Configuring the ACS Server to Interoperate with a Router
• Verifying and Troubleshooting Router-to-ACS Server Interactions

 
SESSION 4
Understanding Firewall Fundamentals
• Firewall Concepts and Technologies
• Firewall Technologies
• Objectives of a Good Firewall
• The Defense-in-Depth Approach
• Five Basic Firewall Methodologies
o Static Packet Filtering
o Application Layer Gateway
o Stateful Packet Filtering
o Application Inspection
o Transparent Firewalls

Implementing Cisco IOS Zone-Based Firewalls
• Cisco IOS Zone-Based Firewall
• How Zone-Based Firewall Operates
• Specific Features of Zone-Based Firewalls
• Zones and Why We Need Pairs of Them
• Putting the Pieces Together
• Service Policies
• The Self Zone
• Configuring and Verifying Cisco IOS Zone-Based Firewall
• Using CCP to Configure the Firewall
• Verifying the Firewall
• Verifying the Configuration from the Command Line
• Implementing NAT in Addition to ZBF
• Verifying Whether NAT Is Working

SESSION 5
Configuring Basic Firewall Policies on Cisco ASA
• ASA Features and Services
• ASA Firewall Fundamentals
• ASA Security Levels
• The Default Flow of Traffic
• Tools to Manage the ASA
• Initial Access
• Packet Filtering on the ASA
• Implementing a Packet-Filtering ACL
• Modular Policy Framework
• Where to Apply a Policy
• Getting to the ASDM GUI
• Configuring the Interfaces
• IP Addresses for Clients
• Basic Routing to the Internet



SESSION 6
• NAT and PAT 8.2
• ACL’s


SESSION 7
• NAT and PAT 8.4
• ACL’s Object Groups


SESSION 8
Cisco IPS/IDS Fundamentals
• IPS Versus IDS
• What Sensors Do
• Difference Between IPS and IDS
• Sensor Platforms
• True/False Negatives/Positives
• Positive/Negative Terminology
• Identifying Malicious Traffic on the Network
• Signature-Based IPS/IDS
• Policy-Based IPS/IDS
• Anomaly-Based IPS/IDS
• Reputation-Based IPS/IDS
• When Sensors Detect Malicious Traffic
• Controlling Which Actions the Sensors Should Take
• Implementing Actions Based on the Risk Rating
• Managing Signatures
• Signature or Severity Levels
• Monitoring and Managing Alarms and Alerts
• Security Intelligence
• IPS/IDS Best Practices

Implementing IOS-Based IPS
• Understanding and Installing an IOS-Based IPS
• Getting to the IPS Wizard
• Working with Signatures in an IOS-Based IPS
• Best Practices When Tuning IPS
• Managing and Monitoring IPS Alarms



SESSION 9
Fundamentals of the Public Key Infrastructure
• Public Key Infrastructure
• Public and Private Key Pairs
• RSA Algorithm, the Keys, and Digital Certificates
• Who Has Keys and a Digital Certificate?
• How Two Parties Exchange Public Keys
• Creating a Digital Signature
• Certificate Authorities
• Root and Identity Certificates
• Root Certificate
• Identity Certificate
• Using the Digital Certificates to get the Peer’s Public Key
• X.500 and X.509v3 Certificates
• Authenticating and Enrolling with the CA
• Public Key Cryptography Standards
• Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol
• Revoked Certificates
• Uses for Digital Certificates
• PKI Topologies
• Single Root CA
• Hierarchical CA with Subordinate CAs
• Cross-Certifying CAs
• Putting the Pieces of PKI to Work
• Default of the ASA
• Viewing the Certificates in ASDM
• Adding a New Root Certificate
• Easier Method for Installing Both Root and Identity certificates

SESSION 10
Fundamentals of IP Security
• What Is a VPN?
• Types of VPNs
• Main Benefits of VPNs
o Confidentiality
o Data Integrity
o Authentication
o Antireplay
• Cryptography Basic Components
• Ciphers and Keys
o Ciphers
o Keys
• Block and Stream Ciphers
o Block Ciphers
o Stream Ciphers
• Symmetric and Asymmetric Algorithms
o Symmetric
o Asymmetric
• Hashes
• Hashed Message Authentication Code

SESSION 11
Implementing IPsec Site-to-Site VPNs
• Planning and Preparing an IPsec Site-to-Site VPN
• Planning IKE Phase 1
• Planning IKE Phase 2
• Implementing and Verifying an IPsec Site-to-Site VPN
• Troubleshooting IPsec Site-to-Site VPNs

SESSION 12
Implementing SSL VPNs Using Cisco ASA
• Functions and Use of SSL for VPNs
• SSL and TLS Protocol Framework
• SSL VPN Flavors
• Configuring SSL Clientless VPNs on ASA
• Using the SSL VPN Wizard
• Digital Certificates
• Authenticating Users
• Seeing the VPN Activity from the Server
• Configuring the Full SSL AnyConnect VPN on the ASA
• Configuring Server to Support the AnyConnect Client
• Groups, Connection Profiles, and Defaults
• Split Tunneling

NJUK

My nephew just passed this onto me and I'm looking into it but do you … My nephew just passed this onto me and I'm looking into it but do you need to be fairly knowledgeable about networking in general? I've setup my work's network and setup new PC's etc but don't have an in depth knowledge of the backend of the networking side of things and don't want to waste anyones time before signing up.Read lessRead more

You'd be better waiting for the next CCNA course that'll probably start in a couple of months. CCNA Security expands on some areas covered in the basic CCNA/CCENT & adds new stuff. Before attending, I'd recommend reading up on CCNA to get a basic understanding, or some of the more complex parts could go over your head. Good luck

The exams cans be booked via the site Pearson VUE. You'll also have to set-up a free account with Cisco to get a student number from them. Once you set that up, you can search locally for testing sites near you & book a date/time.

NJUK

My nephew just passed this onto me and I'm looking into it but do you … My nephew just passed this onto me and I'm looking into it but do you need to be fairly knowledgeable about networking in general? I've setup my work's network and setup new PC's etc but don't have an in depth knowledge of the backend of the networking side of things and don't want to waste anyones time before signing up.Read lessRead more

The CCNA is pretty tough, basic networking won't suffice BUT the official books do walk you thorugh everything step by step.
Do you know what subnetting is? For most people this is the hardest thing to learn along with route summarisation.

They have just launched a new course. The Microsoft MTA.

elearning.commsupport.co.uk/cou…ta/

I will post it up now

I've taken a course with these guys and they are awesome, can't rate them high enough.
Will take another one once I've got to grips with the CCNA

seanmorris100

TBH these courses and the Microsoft ones count for nothing :\ I have a … TBH these courses and the Microsoft ones count for nothing :\ I have a few and no employer really looks for them, they prefer experience over anything else, tbh its not what you know these days but who you know.But for free its worth doing, ive paid hundreds in the past for quals that count for nothing!Read lessRead more

well, it depends... employers want papers for EVERYTHING even cleaning lady should hold a uni degree nowdays so it is only wise to do the free course and then do the exam when it is on offer (then you only pay for exam not for course) and ta-da you got a paper for employer.. of course u have to know that stuff but you will have something to prove it with...(along with the knowledge)

muzzzzzzzzzy

He should really have done the classes the other way around, surely it's … He should really have done the classes the other way around, surely it's easier teaching CCNA than CCNP, but then again I see why it might not beRead lessRead more

depends on perspective, Personally the CCNA was the hardest hurdle as the concepts are completely new and there are so many of them! The CCNP on the otherhand is where you start to expand on what you have learnt previously.

seanmorris100

TBH these courses and the Microsoft ones count for nothing :\ I have a … TBH these courses and the Microsoft ones count for nothing :\ I have a few and no employer really looks for them, they prefer experience over anything else, tbh its not what you know these days but who you know.But for free its worth doing, ive paid hundreds in the past for quals that count for nothing!Read lessRead more

Nice attitude...... Where as my situation currently is the more certs, the more i get paid. I wont say its easy to find a job, Even if you obtain your CCNA, you wont be expected to go and run a data center like people presume, you may end up doing basic networking for a year or so, but its all about building up that CV and moving onto the next thing. Dont stop trying to improve or ill tune in to watch you on benefit streets



Excellent teaching so far, learnt alot and will also be attending the security course. The manuals + videos are also good value.
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seanmorris100

TBH these courses and the Microsoft ones count for nothing :\ I have a … TBH these courses and the Microsoft ones count for nothing :\ I have a few and no employer really looks for them, they prefer experience over anything else, tbh its not what you know these days but who you know.But for free its worth doing, ive paid hundreds in the past for quals that count for nothing!Read lessRead more

Depends on the role you are going for, I recruited a junior tech last year, lots of people had experience and career history, but one young lad had done lots of night classes, some of which good some irrelevant, but it showed he was keen to learn and improve out of hours.

Lots of people looking for few roles, sometimes it's a little something like this that secures a role

thought this started at 9:45 AM = misread the PM. good news as bossman didnt have enough staff to cover while i take time away from my desk...

already have the lab guide so defo looking fwd to it tonight

Thanks, get on it, they are very good.

If you like it "heat" it !!!

Thanks for posting.

Last one i signed up for was cancelled.

Dominatez

Last one i signed up for was cancelled.

Yes, i know, the reason they gave was that the instructor that was to be teaching the course was going to be too busy with other projects to run the free course.

Ultimately, if they run it you get a great course for free that's a bonus, if they don't what have you lost?

I am on their current Free CCNA and i have nothing but good things to say.
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heat added and def have to do this, this time

Doing the CCNA with Joe at the moment. Awesome course! Much recommended and really can't beat FREE!

I'm working on both the CCNA and CCNP courses, am also enrolled for this. Can't beat instruction from someone who knows and understands everything about the subject, with worked examples and Q&A with the instructor, over the Cisco manuals any day. Can't recommend these courses enough

Well worth keeping an eye on Commsupport's website as Joe's indicated there will be more courses coming in the future, and I believe the CCNA's going to be rerun soon
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I'm currently doing the last week of the base CCNA course and have to say they are good. especially as it's for free. I managed to get my work to stump the cash up for the manuals too, but if you're paying attention, Joe the instructor gives you everything in an easy to understand format. Recommended. Also, don't just sign up and forget to attend. These lessons are costing the guys time and money.

Dammit - I signed up and then realised it wasn't a re-run of the CCNA.
I was signed up to that and then they cancelled it.

I'm already signed up. I'm on the CCNA course at the moment after seeing that posted here months ago. So glad I did it. Yes, it's late at night but when it isn't costing you anything but your time then it is well worth it. Also, it is run by a great group of guys who are always happy to help. As moore_mat says though, don't sign up and then not turn up. They assign licenses to everyone who joins and only have a limited number before they have to buy more.

Cool, been thinking about doing CCNA security to extend my certification this year. Bought manuals as well and will see how it goes

Do you get a certificate at the end of the course.....

Thanks, I've signed up. Have some heat.

fubarphill

I'm already signed up. I'm on the CCNA course at the moment after seeing … I'm already signed up. I'm on the CCNA course at the moment after seeing that posted here months ago. So glad I did it. Yes, it's late at night but when it isn't costing you anything but your time then it is well worth it. Also, it is run by a great group of guys who are always happy to help. As moore_mat says though, don't sign up and then not turn up. They assign licenses to everyone who joins and only have a limited number before they have to buy more.Read lessRead more

'm on CCNA & CCNP Joe is excellent, he knows his stuff, currently he is running CCNA 9.30-1100pmM-F BUT IT RUNS TO 11.15, Then he runs CCNP 11.30-1am M-W so without much break He is on line for some 3.5hrs live course.... All is FREE. If you want you can buy the recorded video's along with lab work materials for just £85 or just the video's for £35. Joe is not a pressure salesman to sell these materials. I don't know how he does it..... One motto of theses guys are to make more cisco pro's.

They are also planning to run Microsoft courses later subject to finding some good to be top their standard.

I've also joined this course.

ngangekrubally

Do you get a certificate at the end of the course.....

if this is a LOL then ok, otherwise wake up you are getting a course which some are charging upto £800 for a pre-recorded be it you can get them on deals site with 90% reduction scams


This courses are live and you get to communicate with instructors, and in our case Joe is there for extra 15-30min afterwards to answer questions and joke around with students......... not only that you can get email support through out the course. Also I heard yesterday that someone passed CCNA after 5days of Joes course. Considering how much you can earn after getting CCNA paying just for the exams are drop in an ocean. Then if you work HARD really HARD and get CCNP!! WOW how much you can earn.... with these guys I think there are far more Cisco graduates than I can imagine.

Signed up to this before, got an email saying they cancelled

Currently enrolled on the CCNA course which is nearly ending. The people behind this are awesome, and the live sessions are great, especially for those that do not like prerecorded stuff. You can ask questions during the session just like in a normal class room and also at the end Joe spends an extra half an hour chatting with us answering all questions.

Like others have said, you can buy the workbooks, including labs that you can work on to improve the practical side of things, plus all the previous classes he's done for that course. So if you miss a lesson or want to go over something you missed, the classes will be available.

I signed up last week. Also currently doing the CCNA. Sheesh, I've spent 5 weeks online with some of you guys above! Great course, great training company & all round nice guy. Anyone in the London area that wants to attend a class based CCNA course, this is a company to try. If like me, you're too far away, this is a great alternative. Only down side is Joe is sometimes naked while presenting, (this part may not be true).

As others have said, don't sign up if you can't put in the time. He's a small company so the overhead of having to pay for people that don't turn up will end up forcing him to charge a small fee. I'd bought official CCNA material before I started this course, so didn't buy the course material & didn't feel excluded or pressured. I'll probably buy the Security stuff though as I've not got that.

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I have been on many different CCNA courses in the past and this is by far one of the best courses of study I attended with Joe for the last 5 weeks. He makes things uncomplicated to understand and his way of teaching is superior to others, I would 100% definitely recommend this course with Joe to any one looking at succeeding in the CCNA certifications, just make sure you attend all the session.

How is this not hotter?! I've registered for this also, good find OP.

I am also currently doing the CCNA course and have signed up for the security one too, i have bought the materials as i felt it was a very reasonable price so why not, but certainly not pressured to do so. I do intend on doing any courses they offer in the future that i fell may be relevant, Joe is very nice and a good tutor, nothing but praise for the whole setup.

I've registered but can't attend Lesson 3 due to being abroad... has anyone else missed a lesson before?

Thanks

I better log in for the CCNP one tonight -_-

Same here, almost done with CCNA and it was very good so far, easy to understand, good resources. I have missed 2 evening, but I don't think they make fuss if you not there. It is webinar session and there number of people who do attend.
Highly recommended

I'm on the CCNA running now. I wasn't expecting much but it has been great so far, really informative and Joe is a great presenter.

The thing I am not looking forward to is going on until 1am for this course then getting up at 6 for work so I will have to see how it goes. I know there will be other courses run earlier in the evening such as CCNP so keep an eye out for them.

He should really have done the classes the other way around, surely it's easier teaching CCNA than CCNP, but then again I see why it might not be

This looks really good, I've enlisted. Is this just the content for an exam you can take separately or do you get a certificate.