Network Security Fundamentals

WEBVTT Welcome and thanks for joining us for this overview for network security fundamentals. So if you go and I'll be one of your hosts for this course, you might see a couple of people interchanging in this position and this is Daniel Lowry, and he is going to be walking us through the material step-by-step, holding our hand, explaining it every step of the way. I'm being generous. He's going to go all in and he's really going to teach us this stuff. So I'm looking forward to this. A lot of this is going to be new to me. I know it is a fundamentals course, but it's network stuff and that's kind of a step that I skipped. So looking forward to learning more about that. And that's kind of, I want to start with a little bit more about you, your experience and what you're excited about in this course. Sure. So as you said, hi, Daniel Lowry. Good to meet you there. We're looking forward to seeing you throughout this course, along with Sophia and I, and just having a good time learning about network fundamentals. I like how you said, I kind of skipped the networking part and went straight to security. That happens a lot. This is a very good course. If you are security minded, you think my, maybe my next step will be into security is exactly where you want to be. Because if you don't know networking and security and how they work together, it's going to make for some gaps in your knowledge base. And you're going to have to do some backpedaling to figure a few things out from time to time. I've run into that myself. It's, it's fun to try to, you know, take a shortcut to the finish line, but these are concepts that you absolutely need to know and they're helpful for you in every, every day life plan as an IT professional. So a little bit about myself, I have been in IT for over years now. So a couple of times I've looked at these things. I've done security specifically for about the last seven or eight years of my career, specifically moving into offensive security, red team, security, that kind of things. But I'm well versed in the blue team side of things as well. So we'll get to use that, utilize that knowledge on both sides in this course so that we can get some good networking security ideas from my head to yours. Hopefully that's the idea. Anyway. That is the idea. And since this is a network security fundamentals course, it's in the name, is this a good place to start? If you don't have a lot of prerequisite knowledge or are there things that you should probably be familiar with coming into this course? So yeah, it's, it's a good, definitely one of the more foundational areas. So this course is meant to be like, Hey, I don't have a ton of knowledge as far as networking and or security goes, but I maybe have a little bit, especially on the networking side, uh, operating systems. You got to obviously know how to use your operating system a little bit, but we're definitely going to run down the rabbit hole of a lot of security and how that works in network systems. So you will need to kind of understand a little bit about networking, but we are going to elaborate on those concepts and how they fit together as we move through the course. So hopefully we get you where you're needing to go. Now I know we've got some viewers and some students that are maybe their students just coming out of college. Maybe they're looking to make a career change. Maybe they're already in it or insecurity and trying to learn more. Who's the target audience for this course? The target audience is anybody that is interested in network security or needs to be interested in network security for whatever purposes. Maybe you're studying for an exam or these are skills that are applicable. To jobs that you are wanting or are already in. So it really kind of, it, it, it runs the field as it were on IT professionals. If you need to know networking and the security that is connected to it, this court and you're kind of new to that. This is the course for you. Yeah. Well, I mean, I feel like we've got both ends of the spectrum covered here. You've obviously been doing this a while. I'm very new at this and we're both here. So that tells you this course really is for anybody. And I think you pretty much covered everything. Talked about what we're going to learn, what you're looking forward to a little bit of Daniel's experience. And of course, you'll see my face here as well. That's going to do it for this overview. So thank you so much for joining us and we will see you in the course.