Mark Edwards attains Tiger Scheme Qualified Security Tester status
Despite a wealth of security focused accreditations, Capital Network Solutions is proud to announce that 
Mark Edwards has recently become a Tiger Scheme Qualified Security Tester (QST) with Distinction.
"With the ever increasing range of security threats, it is vital that we continually educate ourselves to ensure that we are providing the best possible service to our customers who entrust us with their critical business infrastructure", commented Mark.
Mark continued "As a company we have made a decision that with the increasing range of security services that we are providing we would like to work towards CHECK accreditation so this is an important step towards this."
We are now able to provide the below range of advanced security services including:
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Network Penetration Testing
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Ethical Hacking
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Security Auditing Services
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Advanced Security Network Design, Installation and Managed Services
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Network Security Hardening
The TIGER Scheme Qualified Security Tester (QST) Course focuses on the following areas:
- Information Security in the Corporate World
- Professionalism & Communication Skills
- Ethics & The Law
- Core Network Protocols
- Network Enumeration & Network Mapping
- Network Device Management & Exploitation
- Service Enumeration
- Service Topology/Dependency Mapping
- Service Management & Exploitation
- Application Enumeration & Profiling
- Application & Operating System (OS) Management
- Application/OS Exploitation & Manipulation
Key points covered:
- Key security standards and issues
- Professional / ethical behaviour in the area of vulnerability testing
- Key communications and project management skills for vulnerability testing
- The OSI model of networking
- IP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols including IP based routing and the TCP state chart
- Key network services including DNS
- How a TCP/IP network can be profiled and have its topology mapped
- How to configure and manage a network device
- How to subvert a network and bypass network based security mechanisms
- The role and function of service in a network enabled environment and the techniques associated with service enumeration
- How critical service dependences within a network enabled environment can be enumerated and validated
- How services should be managed and can be manipulated and exploited
- How applications and operating systems should be configured and managed, and the ways in which they can be subverted.
