Overview

In this webinar, the first of two based on our Cybersecurity Foundations course, you will examine the following topics:

• Verifying users and what they can access
• Ways a user can be validated to computer and network resources
• How cryptography is used to protect data
• Symmetric and asymmetric encryption
• Hashes

Outline

• Identification
  • Something a user knows
  • Something a user possesses
  • Something a user is or does
• Issues
  • Distribution
  • Cost
  • Tracking
• Elements
• Password Protocols
• Hashes
• Kerberos
• Cryptography Benefits
  • Confidentiality
    • Encryption
  • Integrity
    • Message digests
  • Authentication
    • Public-key cryptography
  • Non-Repudiation
    • Digital signatures
• Symmetric Encryption
• Asymmetric Process
• Digital Signatures
• Certificate Authorities
• Models
• Lifecycle
• Distribution

For more information on cybersecurity from instructor Jayson Ferron, register for our follow-up webinar, Securing Communications, scheduled for February 23, 2011.