NFSG Covered

Network Basics

1. Network Analyzing Tools & Techniques

2. Cisco/Juniper Router/firewall configuration basics

3. IPv4, IPv6 basics

4. TCP/IP basics (stuff even Sr. Engr's need)

5. TCP Tuning

6. Life cycle of a packet

7. NBMA/OSPF de-mystified

7. Routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP)

8. Configuring IPv4/IPv6 DNS and DHCP

9. Downtime - Tragedy or Opportunity

10. Network Mgt (syslog & SNMP)

11. Spanning Tree Protocol

12 The Fine art of remote configuration

13. IEEE & ITU-T (CCITT) Specifications

14. Network Performance & Troubleshooting tips

(still rounding up the usual suspects? - getting

the same results?) Troubleshooting is just

What mama didn't teach you about reading packet

captures

Network Security

1. Router & Switch Threat Mitigation

2. Firewall & IDS strategies

3. Cisco ACL's

4. Cisco AAA

5. US/Foreign Laws Regarding Cyber Warfare

6. Anatomy of Web Site security

Encryption

1. IKE/IPSec

2. Cryptography

3. DoD Security 101

4. Common criteria, EAL

5. PKI & x.509 Certificates

1. Broadband, 802.11, 2.5/5.8GHz, K Band

2. Antenna site selection and installation

3. Satellite Topology

4. RF Link budgets & Coverage models

5. Wireless Survey

Facility

1. Power & Air Conditioning

2. MPOE Layout

3. The lost art of Site Survey's

4. Wiring Tips & techniques

Unix /Windows

1. Command summary

2. Network configuration

3. Linux/Windows Scripting

WAN

1. SONET (w/o all the vendor kool-aid)

2. MPLS-VPN/VRF

3. Frame Relay

4. HDLC

5. PPP

6. Anatomy of Telecomm & Data Circuits

Voice

1. IP Telephony/Converged networks

2. Cisco VoIP basics

3. Voip/Converged Network Survey

4. SIP Architecture

Pen Testing/Finding your bad self

1. Pentest Insight (once rsv'd only for the elite)

2. Four reasons why a hack fails

3. Enumeration

4. Finding & Using Exploits

5. Web Site Application Pen Testing

6. IPv6 Penetration testing

Power Grid Infrastructure

SCADA

Smart Grid

NERC

AMI/ANSI C12.22

Software Development

IDE Architecture

Project Management*

1. Network Engineers and Contracts (by request only)

2. How to be the RFP whisperer

3. Profiling customers - whose serious & who isn't

4. How to write a SOW that protects you from scope creep

5. Protect your profit margin

*By request only