Protecting Your Network with Authentication and Cryptography

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 and 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