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Fortinet NSE 1 Cert | Course Notes

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These are notes from Fortinet's NSE Network Security Associate (NSE 1) course, it's entitled "Information Security Awareness". you can find out the full course at  training.fortinet.com . If you have any questions about Fortinet's courses and certification program, please refer to the Network Security Expert (NSE) Program site.  You can also join the Fortinet User Community , where you can connect and network on common topics of interest with other Fortinet users in the community. The course is divided into five obligatory lessons followed by three additional lessons Lesson 1: bad actors 1/ The explorer: Motivations:  looking for vulnerabilities Used techniques:  phishing create a look-alike web server, send an email with a link that redirects the victim to my fake webserver 2/ Hacktivist: Motivations: political, social, or moral disagreements Used techniques: DDoS using botnets (command & control), executables in email attachments 3/ Cyber terroris...