CYBV460
Principles of Zero Trust Networks
Bachelor's Degrees
Certificates
Course Description
CYBV 460 will provide students with an overview of the fundamentals of Zero Trust Networks (ZTN). Students will be presented with the most effective methodologies used by leading companies and cyber professionals to design and implement a ZTN. Students will use interactive exercises to become familiar with the design concepts including Software Defined Networks (SDN) and how to leverage SDN and mutual TLS authentication to create a scalable and robust ZTN.
Learning Outcomes
The student will:
- Assess what a Zero Trust Network (ZTN) is and build a ZTN model in use today o Adapt trust in the context of threat models
- Create network agents addressing agent volatility
- Design authorization and authorization decisions in a ZTN
- Construct device trust and inventory management
- Design and implement user trust and identity management
- Design and implement application trust with authenticated code
- Analyze network traffic trust and IKE/IPsec
- Propose a ZTN design and what is actually required
Course Objectives
The student will:
- Assess the ZTN model in use today
- Design the scope of a ZTN
- Design and build a system diagram of a ZTN
- Define and install policy
- Design and implement a ZTN proxy
- Understand client-side vs. server-side installations
- Explore two case studies of zero trust in production networks on the client side (Google) and on the server side (PagerDuty)