LEAP Security Support

Almost everyone around us type at the keyboard of computers or tablets and use their smart phones daily. Computing and communications technologies have become an integral part of our life and in the context of this technology-rich environment the term “cyber space” often arises.

LEAP Security Support course is designed for young aspirants who want to shape their careers in IT Security field.

120 hours (2 months)

Online

Course Features:

Language: English
Duration: 120 hours (2 months)
Learning Mode: Online
Jurisdiction: Nationwide
Certificate of Completion

Introduction

This course serves as an introduction to the exciting field of security in Information technology.

As our daily lives become more and more dependent on Internet-based tools and services, and as those platforms accumulate our sensitive data, the demand grows for experts in the field of security over the internet.

What you'll learn ?

In this course, you will get an overview of the cyber security, various types of viruses and malware, how to protect our system from viruses, types of cyber-attacks, various tools used for cyber-attacks, how to secure system from cyber-attacks.

After completing this course, you will get various Career Opportunities like:

Security Consultant.
Information Security Analyst.
Ethical Hackers.
Computer Forensics Analysts.
Chief Information Security Officer.
Penetration Tester.
IT Security Consultant.
Security Systems Administrator and so on…..

Academic Approach

The academic approach of the courses focuses on the “work-centric” education i.e. begin with work (and not from a book!), derive knowledge from work and apply that knowledge to make the work more wholesome, useful and delightful. The ultimate objective is to empower the Learner to engage in socially useful and productive work. It aims at leading the learner to his/her rewarding career as an employee or entrepreneur as well as development of the community to which s/he belongs. Learning methodology:

Step -1: Learners are given an overview of the course and its connection to life and work.
Step -2: Learners are exposed to the specific tool(s) used in the course through the various real-life applications of the tool(s).
Step -3: Learners are acquainted with the careers and the hierarchy of roles they can perform at workplaces after attaining increasing levels of mastery over the tool(s).
Step -4: Learners are acquainted with the architecture of the tool or tool map so as to appreciate various parts of the tool, their functions, utility and inter-relations.
Step -5: Learners are exposed to simple application development methodology by using the tool at the beginner’s level.
Step -6: Learners perform the differential skills related to the use of the tool to improve the given ready-made industry-standard outputs.
Step -7: Learners are engaged in appreciation of real-life case studies developed by the experts.
Step -8: Learners are encouraged to proceed from appreciation to imitation of the experts.
Step -9: After the imitation experience, they are required to improve the expert’s outputs so that they proceed from mere imitation to emulation.
Step-10: Emulation is taken a level further from working with differential skills towards the visualization and creation of a complete output according to the requirements provided. (Long Assignments)
Step-11: Understanding the requirements, communicating one’s own thoughts and presenting are important skills required in facing an interview for securing a work order/job. For instilling these skills, learners are presented with various subject-specific technical as well as HR-oriented questions and encouraged to answer them.
Step-12: Finally, they develop the integral skills involving optimal methods and best practices to produce useful outputs right from scratch, publish them in their ePortfolio and thereby proceed from emulation to self-expression, from self-expression to self-confidence and from self-confidence to self-reliance and self-esteem!

Syllabus

Basics of Networking
Overview of Computer Viruses
Rootkits
Botnets
Ransomware
Using Antivirus Software
Adwares and Spywares
Antispam Technologies
Installing Free Antivirus and Scanning the PC
Installing Free Antispyware and scanning PC for Adware and Spywares

Securing Personal computers and Operating Systems
Patch Management
Patch Deployment and verification
Installing and configuring Open Source Firewall
Firewalls
Proxy server
Routers
Configuring Windows Firewall
Overview of IPS and IDS
Network load balancers
Securing Servers - Server Hardening
Windows Server Hardening

WEP, WPA and WPA2
MAC Address Filtering

Authentication and Encryption
Network Address Translation
Secure Remote Access
Secure Remote Access - Configuring VPN in Windows 7

Common Cyber Attack
Phishing and Spoofing attacks
Social Engineering
Man in the Middle Attack
Denial of Service Attack
Using network packet capturing tool
Ethical Hacking
Foot printing
Open Source Security Scanning tools like NMAP
Using Kali Linux for exploring various Ethical Hacking Tools

Evaluation Pattern

Evaluation Pattern of LEAP Courses consists of 4 Sections as per below table:

Section No.	Section Name	Total Marks	Minimum Passing Marks
1	Learning Progression	25	10
2	Internal Assessment	25	10
3	Final Online Examination	50	20
	Total	100	40
4	SUPWs (Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)	5 Assignments	2 Assignments to be Completed & Uploaded

MKCL's LEAP Certificate

The certificate will be provided to the learner who will satisfy the below criteria:

Learners who have successfully completed above mentioned 3 Sections i.e. Section 1, Section 2 and Section 3
Additionally, learner should have completed Section 4 (i.e. Section 4 will comprise of SUPWs i.e. Socially Useful and Productive Work in form of Assignments)
- Learner has to complete and upload minimum 2 out of 5 Assignments

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