Network Defense Strategies

Course Overview

In today’s interconnected world, secure network design is essential to organizational resilience. As networks expand across offices, plants, and data centers, cyber threats increasingly exploit vulnerabilities such as misconfigurations, weak segmentation, and unmonitored systems. This course equips learners with the skills to design, implement, and manage secure network infrastructures at every stage of their lifecycle. Through a balance of theory and hands-on labs, students will learn to apply principles like defense in depth, least privilege, segmentation, and zero trust. They will gain practical experience configuring VLANs, implementing firewalls and IDS/IPS, and deploying VPN technologies such as IPSec, SSL/TLS, and L2TP. Learners will also practice real-time traffic monitoring, log analysis, and SIEM integration to detect and respond to intrusions. Designed for aspiring network security professionals, system administrators, and IT managers, this course emphasizes scalable architectures, policy-driven operations, and continuous monitoring—preparing learners to protect modern enterprise networks against evolving threats.