Explores both hardware and software-based firewall systems. The material covered in this course provides the broad-based knowledge and skills necessary to prepare students to design, implement, and administer firewall system. In today’s computing environments, system/network/security administrators must understand how to protect their assets from attacks. Firewall systems are the first line of defense administrators use to protect these assets, therefore, a thorough grounding in the design, implementation and administration of firewall systems, as well as practical, hands-on experience, is a necessity for any system/network/security administrator.
Students enrolling in this course the first half of the semester typically register in Intro to Intrusion Detection/Prevention Systems for the second half of the semester.
Prerequisite: Cisco IV
