Network security
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Learn about network security and the importance of encryption and firewalls. This free course explores the main issues in achieving resilience against attacks, covering factors driving the need for security, examples of attacks, and vulnerability identification. Understand symmetric and asymmetric encryption systems and hybrid systems’ characteristics. Enhance your knowledge of network security.
Encryption of files and firewalls are just some of the security measures that can be used in security. This free course, Network security, which assumes you have a substantial knowledge of computing, helps to explain the intricacies of the continually changing area of network security by studying the main issues involved in achieving a reasonable degree of resilience against attacks.
Course learning outcomes
After studying this course, you should be able to:
Identify some of the factors driving the need for network security
Identify and classify particular examples of attacks
Define the terms vulnerability, threat and attack
Identify physical points of vulnerability in simple networks
Compare and contrast symmetric and asymmetric encryption systems and their vulnerability to attack, and explain the characteristics of hybrid systems.
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