Cyberforce Superiority – Gold Belt

Cyberforce Superiority

Part of the Cyberforce Superiority™ “Belts” courses

The 5-day Gold Belt course gives students a more in-depth understanding of networking concepts and hardware with a focus on how network architecture influences cyber attack and defense.

A Gold Belt student will start class already familiar with basic computer use. The student will continue to learn about the basic mathematics behind how computer data is represented, how computer operations are governed, and how multiple computers interact through network communication. Students will gain an understanding of how hardware and software necessary to construct a secure network of computers is key to both defensive and offensive network operations.

Learning different techniques used to subvert a network is also important to both defensive and offensive cyber professionals. In this lesson the student will learn both, demonstrating offensive and defensive network operations in a capstone exercise.

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Course Learning Objectives and Content

Networking

Practice configuring network devices

Design and implement a wireless network using WEP, WPA and WPA2

Practice capturing and reviewing network traffic

Demonstrate the ability to configure and use a proxy server

Rewrite a hosts file to redirect DNS queries

Employ an ARP poisoning attack to redirect network traffic to perform a man-in-the-middle attack

Operate a honeypot machine

Manipulate network traffic to perform a DNS cache poisoning attack against a target

OSI Model
Hardware
- Hub
- Switch
- Router
Architecture
- DMZ
- Network Isolation
Security
- Network Firewall
- Web Application Firewall
- Network Address Translation
- Intrusion Detection System
- Intrusion Protection System
- Sinkholes
- Honeypots
Networking Protocols (ARP, Ethernet, IP, ICMP, TCP, UDP, DHCP, SNMP, SSL/TLS, BGP)
Vulnerabilities and Prevention
- Packet Sniffing and Capture
- Man in the Middle
- Domain Name System Security Extensions (DNSSEC)
- SSL Certificates

Advanced Windows Usage

Demonstrate proficiency in administering a Windows system by configuring a webserver, fileserver, DNS server, domain controller and database server

Networking commands
Network Operations
User Accounts and Management
Hardware Drivers
Registry

Advanced Unix Usage

Demonstrate proficiency in administering a Linux system by configuring a webserver, fileserver, DNS server, domain controller and database server

Networking commands
Network Operations
Shells
User Accounts and Management
Runlevels

Capstone/Lab Exercise