NEWS & EVENTS

NDG is pleased to announce the latest addition to our supported curriculum content available for NETLAB+ VE. 

CyberOps Associate: The CyberOps Associate labs help prepare learners to earn the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate Certification. Learners will gain hands-on practice in how to monitor, detect, and respond to cybersecurity threats. Topics include security concepts, security monitoring, host-based analysis, network intrusion analysis, and security policies procedures.

For details, please see: CyberOps Associate v1.

This new content is available to all NETLAB+ customers with a current maintenance agreement who are participants in the Cisco Networking Academy.

NDG is pleased to announce the following addition to our supported curriculum content options for NETLAB+ VE.

NDG Ethical Hacking v2 (Series-1) – This series of labs, developed by NDG, is designed to provide hands-on experience conducting a variety of ethical hacking practices through the use of open-source technology. These skills can help prepare trainees for a variety of IT positions, including: Cybersecurity Analyst, Penetration Tester, Ethical Hacker-Security Engineer IT Security Specialist, Cybersecurity Engineer, and Information Security Engineer-Ethical Hacker. 

For details, please see the NDG Ethical Hacking V2 labs page.

NDG is pleased to announce the following lab library has been added to our supported curriculum content options for NETLAB+ VE. 

Zeek Intrusion Detection – New Labs Now Available

Zeek is an open-source network analysis framework, primarily used in security monitoring and traffic analysis. Zeek will generate log files based on signatures or events found during network traffic analysis and also includes built-in functionality for a variety of analysis and detection tasks. For additional information, please see https://zeek.org/

The Zeek Intrusion Detection labs explain and demonstrate Zeek’s capabilities towards performing network traffic analysis.

The development of this lab series was supported with funding from the National Science Foundation Award 1829698 “CyberTraining CIP: Cyberinfrastructure Expertise on High-throughput Networks for Big Science Data Transfers” at the University of South Carolina (UofSC). 

Thank you for choosing NETLAB+ to support your educational programs.  NDG is pleased to announce the following lab libraries have been added to our supported curriculum content options for NETLAB+ VE. 

Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Essentials v9.0

The Cybersecurity Essentials labs allow students to gain hands-on practice in evaluating cybersecurity principles and demonstrating how to secure a network computing environment through the application of security controls, using Palo Alto Networks next-generation firewalls. While examining strategies for network defense, students will deploy a variety of security methodologies, as well as technologies and concepts used for implementing secure network environments. Please see the NDG website for details regarding the Palo Alto Networks Cybersecurity Essentials v9.0 labs.

Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials v9.1 (EDU-210) 

These labs will enhance the student’s understanding of how to configure and manage Palo Alto Networks® next-generation firewalls. The student will gain hands-on experience configuring, managing, and monitoring a firewall in a lab environment. This lab-set version differs from v9.0, in that the topology does not use Microsoft Windows® virtual machines. Please see the NDG website for details regarding the Palo Alto Networks Firewall Essentials v9.1 (EDU-210) labs.