What you'll learn

Networks - whether internet-facing or internal - are constantly under threat from evolving attack vectors. In this course, Cisco Enterprise Networks: Securing Network Infrastructure, you’ll gain the ability to build a more secure and resilient enterprise network. First, you’ll explore foundational practices for hardening infrastructure and controlling access to network devices. Next, you’ll discover how to implement access control lists (ACLs), leverage Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) standards, and deploy AAA servers such as TACACS+ and RADIUS. Finally, you’ll learn how to secure programmable APIs and apply control plane protection mechanisms like CoPP and CPPr. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge to protect Cisco enterprise networks against common infrastructure-level threats.