cyber security

  • recap

    last week we did cisco chapter 1 and looked at common threats to cyber security threats and what grey, white and black hat hackers and did 4 exercises on these areas
  • recap

    this week we did cisco chapter two we looked at packet tracer and did an exercise about AAA (Authentication, Authorisation, Accounting), Integrity and hashing algorithms, Sneakernet Wired networks Wireless networks and then IPSec
  • recap

    last lesson we used cisco packet tracer and made a secure shell network
  • 07/10/2021

    This lesson we did chapter 4 on cisco we looked at Steganography, factor authentication methods and some drawbacks of them, ALCs the difference between standard and extended, One Time Pads and asymmetric and symmetric algorithms
  • Recap 7/10/21

    last lesson we did chapter 4 on cisco we looked at Steganography, factor authentication methods and some drawbacks of them, ALCs the difference between standard and extended, One Time Pads and asymmetric and symmetric algorithms
  • 12/10/21

    today we did cisco chapter 5 and looked at pigeonhole principle and why it is relevant to hashing, how many different combinations various versions of hashing have from MD5 TO SHA-512, we also looked at digital signatures and common database attacks such as denial of service or SQL injection
  • Recap 12/10/21

    today we did cisco chapter 5 and looked at pigeonhole principle and why it is relevant to hashing, how many different combinations various versions of hashing have from MD5 TO SHA-512, we also looked at digital signatures and common database attacks such as denial of service or SQL injection
  • 21/10/21

    today we looked at cisco Chapter 6 5 9s availability what what sectors or industry's would require it, we also looked at single point of failures and system resilience and fault tolerance.
    then we did defense in depth and looked at how computers are defended from attacks, also we looked at RAID and several of its variants and then looked at Radia Perlman's work in spanning tree and what it does
  • Recap Cyber security exam PART A

    Recap Cyber security exam PART A
    last lesson i looked through Part A of the cyber security exam. i made a word document and made notes on what each question was asking. i also made note of what questions i needed to do more research on to be able to answer fully
  • 18/11/21 Cyber security Exam Part B

    18/11/21 Cyber security Exam Part B
    In todays lesson i looked through Part B of the cyber security exam and have been making notes about key points in the exam on a word document. i have made notes on what questions are asking and parts that i need to do more research on and have also made note of what i need to do to make sure i can answer questions correctly for example read the mark scheme and examiners notes on both part A and B