SSCP Systems Security Certified Practitioner All-in-One Exam Guide, Third Edition, 3rd Edition

CHAPTER 4

Advanced Networking and Communications

In this chapter, you will learn about

•  The difference between switches and routers

•  Physical and logical segmentation of hosts and networks

•  Securing the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) with the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)

•  Proxy servers and filtering methods

•  Packet-filtering, stateful inspection, and application firewalls

•  Defense diversity with firewalls

•  The differences between network-based and host-based firewalls

•  Risks and vulnerabilities related to remote access solutions

•  Different tunneling protocols used with remote access

•  Authentication methods used with remote access

•  Network access control

•  Virtualization environments

•  Separating the ...