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Assess your networking and security Skills

Assess your networking and security Skills

Are you a networking guy? Do you want to brush your networking skills?

Network security is the practice of preventing and protecting against unauthorized intrusion into corporate networks. As a philosophy, it complements endpoint security, which focuses on individual devices; network security instead focuses on how those devices interact, and on the connective tissue between them.

According to the SANS institute Network security is the process of taking physical and software preventative measures to protect the underlying networking infrastructure from unauthorized access, misuse, malfunction, modification, destruction, or improper disclosure, thereby creating a secure platform for computers, users, and programs to perform their permitted critical functions within a secure environment.

A brief network security consists of Three layers, Protection, Detection, and Reaction. This is a kind of defense-in-depth strategy. But a system should not rely on a single line of the defense system, rather it should have multiple defense strategies lined up.

So how can you test your network and security skills, there are some perfect websites to validate your skills and prove yourself as a network and security expert.

You can visit Free Tech Exams website and attend CompTIA, A+, Network+, and Security+ Practice Test and Exam. They also provide certification on completion of your test. Each segment is consisting of 10 tests you can practice to.

Another one you can visit Certiology's computer networking tutorials. This website provides free computer networking tutorials, notes, and study guides. Also, you can give quizzes to analyzing your networking skills from here. Most importantly there is a career help section on this website. There you will find many tips and tricks regarding your career. Also, there are sample resumes and cover letters.

Free resource to learn computer networking basics on tutorialology is one more website. Here you will find Computer Networking Tutorials in three sections. First, you will get The Open System Interconnection (OSI) model layers tutorials. Then Network Topology tutorials lastly TCP/IP tutorials in total fifty-eight tutorials on this website. Good luck with becoming a network expert.

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