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title: "Network Assurance « National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium"
description: "The Network Assurance course covers secure network practices to protect networked systems against attacks and exploits. Topics include authentication…"
date: "2023-07-21T03:55:22+00:00"
language: "en-US"
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The Network Assurance course covers secure network practices to protect networked systems against attacks and exploits. Topics include authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA), as well as firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, common cryptographic ciphers, server and client security, and secure policy generation. This course also includes information on securing cloud-based networks and applications.