Networking for Security — Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker Road…
The networking fundamentals every attacker and defender must know cold
Steps in Networking for Security
- OSI Model and TCP/IP — beginner · How data actually moves across a network, and where attacks target each layer
- Common Ports and Protocols — beginner · The ports and protocols (HTTP, DNS, SSH, SMB, RDP) attackers scan for and defenders monitor
- Packet Analysis with Wireshark — beginner · Capturing and reading raw network traffic to understand what's actually happening on the wire
- DNS and DNS Security — beginner · How DNS works and the ways it's abused: spoofing, tunneling and cache poisoning
- VPNs and Proxies — beginner · How VPNs and proxies protect (and sometimes hide) traffic
- Wireless Network Security — beginner · WPA2/WPA3, common Wi-Fi attacks and how wireless networks are hardened
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- Cybersecurity Analyst / Ethical Hacker roadmap — the full learning path