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Ian Neil
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Ian Neil

Ian Neil is one of the world's top trainers of Security+. He is able to break down information into manageable chunks so that people with no background knowledge can gain the skills required to become certified. He has recently worked for the US Army in Europe and designed a Security+ course that catered to people from all backgrounds (not just IT professionals), with an extremely successful pass rate. He is an MCT, MCSE, A+, Network+, Security+, CASP, and RESILIA practitioner that has worked with high-end training providers over the past 23 years and was one of the first technical trainers to train Microsoft internal staff when they opened their Bucharest Office in 2006.
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Secure Protocols and Their Use Cases

In this section, we are going to look in detail at the various secure protocols and their use cases. The Security+ exam wants you to select the correct secure protocol for a given scenario to make your environment secure.

As most protocols use TCP ports, I will only mention the UDP ports, and therefore you can assume that if something is not labeled UDP, it is TCP. We will look at the secure protocols and their use cases:

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Let's look at each of them:

  • SSH: This was invented to replace Telnet so that commands could be run securely; it is commonly used when you want remote access to network devices. It can be used as a command-line tool or in a Graphical User Interface (GUI), but it is not browser-based.
  • SCP: This is used to transfer files securely between hosts in a Linux environment.
  • SFTP: This allows us to encrypt authentication and download files securely so that they cannot be tampered with...
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Published in: Dec 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800564244

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Ian Neil

Ian Neil is one of the world's top trainers of Security+. He is able to break down information into manageable chunks so that people with no background knowledge can gain the skills required to become certified. He has recently worked for the US Army in Europe and designed a Security+ course that catered to people from all backgrounds (not just IT professionals), with an extremely successful pass rate. He is an MCT, MCSE, A+, Network+, Security+, CASP, and RESILIA practitioner that has worked with high-end training providers over the past 23 years and was one of the first technical trainers to train Microsoft internal staff when they opened their Bucharest Office in 2006.
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