Foundation IP Networking for Audit and Compliance
Professionally Certified · 40 min per module
This course gives auditors and compliance professionals the networking vocabulary they need to assess infrastructure controls with confidence. You will learn how IP addressing, TCP and UDP protocols, subnets, and ports work, and how the core components of a network — routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and load balancers — interact. The course is designed for professionals who evaluate network-based controls without needing deep technical engineering background.
By the end of the course you will be able to review network architecture documentation, request the right evidence during fieldwork, identify typical control weaknesses, and map network control findings to SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and NIST framework requirements. All concepts are explained through an audit and compliance lens.
Course Overview
Protocols, components, and control review.
Learn how IP addressing, subnets, ports, and core protocols work. Understand the role of routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and segmentation in network security architecture — and what evidence auditors should request and review when assessing each component.
Duration & Benefits
Self-paced. 40 min per module.
Work through annotated diagrams and practical examples that translate technical networking concepts into audit language. The course requires no prior network engineering experience and is designed to give compliance professionals the confidence to engage with IT teams and evaluate evidence during network control reviews.
Results & Value
Professionally Certified on completion.
Leave with the ability to assess network-based controls across any infrastructure environment. You will be able to review architecture diagrams, request and interpret evidence, identify control gaps, and communicate findings clearly against SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and NIST requirements.
Foundation IP Networking — Networks through an auditor's lens.
Self-paced · Professionally Certified · €149
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