ACARA 9-10 Digital Technologies: Firewalls and network defences
Students learn how firewalls, firewall rules, MAC filtering, proxies, segmentation, intrusion detection and prevention, antivirus and updates defend a network.
One content description (AC9TDI10K01) from the full ACARA Digital Technologies Years 9–10 — Networked Systems and Access Control journey. All 15 modules below are in that journey too, with the same content — add just these to a class, or the whole strand.
Modules (15)
1
Firewalls
2
Firewall software
3
Network (hardware) firewall
4
Firewall rule: allow or deny by port
5
Firewall rule: allow or deny by IP address
6
Firewall rule order and default deny
7
MAC address filtering
8
What a proxy server is
9
How a proxy server keeps data safe
10
ISM guideline: segmentation and segregation
11
ISM guideline: network access controls
12
Intrusion detection systems (IDS)
13
Intrusion prevention systems (IPS)
14
Antivirus software
15
Operating system updates
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