Enterprise Networking, Security and Infrastructure Management

About This Course

This course prepares professionals to design, secure, and manage the networks and infrastructure that modern organisations depend on. It connects network architecture, infrastructure operations, and security so these are managed as one environment rather than as separate technical silos.

Participants learn how enterprise networks are structured, how infrastructure services support the business, and which security controls protect availability, integrity, and confidentiality. The programme covers on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments at a practical management level, including design principles, operational processes, monitoring, resilience, and governance. It is suitable for infrastructure, network, security, and IT operations professionals who need a coherent view of how the environment is built, protected, and run.

Course Objectives

Explain the main components of an enterprise network and how they support business services.
Describe infrastructure building blocks across data centre, cloud, and hybrid environments.
Apply security principles to network and infrastructure design, including segmentation and access control.
Define operational practices for change, capacity, availability, and incident handling.
Identify common risks to networks and infrastructure and select proportionate controls.
Use monitoring and performance information to manage reliability and security.
Establish ownership, standards, and assurance for infrastructure services.

What You Will Learn

How enterprise networks and infrastructure services fit together
How to read and describe an environment in terms of business dependency, not only devices
How to apply segmentation, access control, and hardening in a practical design
How hybrid and cloud infrastructure changes ownership and control
How to operate networks and infrastructure with change, monitoring, and incident discipline
How to plan resilience, backup, and recovery for critical services
How to govern standards, risk, and performance so the environment stays manageable

Skills You Will Gain

Enterprise network and infrastructure mapping
Hybrid and cloud dependency analysis
Network and infrastructure security design
Segmentation and access-control planning
Configuration and hardening standards
Operational process design for change, monitoring, and incidents
Resilience and recovery planning
Infrastructure risk review
Service metrics and management reporting

Why Choose Komatek Academy

Practitioner-led instruction focused on design choices, operating controls, and business dependency
Workshops that map services, review security, and define how an environment is run
Coverage of hybrid reality, including data centre, cloud, remote access, and third parties
Security built into management, rather than added as a final topic
Flexible delivery for network, infrastructure, security, and operations teams
Practical outputs including a dependency map, control priorities, operating controls, and a management outline

Who Should Attend

Network Administrators

Network Engineers

Network Operations Analysts

Infrastructure Engineers

Systems Administrators

Network Security Analysts

Wireless Network Engineers

IT Service Managers

Cloud Network Engineers

Technical Infrastructure Leads

Course Content

MODULE 01

Enterprise Network Foundations

Network roles: users, sites, data centres, cloud, and partners

Core concepts: addressing, routing, switching, name services, and connectivity

LAN, WAN, wireless, remote access, and internet edge at an enterprise level

How applications depend on the network

Documentation: topology, standards, and service ownership

MODULE 02

Infrastructure Services and Platforms

Compute, storage, virtualisation, and platform services

Identity, directory, and core network services

Data centre and cloud operating models

Hybrid connectivity and shared responsibility

Capacity, availability, and lifecycle management

Workshop: Mapping a sample service onto its infrastructure dependencies

MODULE 03

Securing Networks and Infrastructure

Threats to availability, access, and data in transit and at rest

Segmentation, zero-trust principles, and least privilege

Perimeter and internal controls: firewalls, secure remote access, and network access control

Hardening, patching, configuration standards, and privileged access

Securing wireless, remote work, cloud workloads, and third-party connections

Logging and detection points that operations teams can actually use

Workshop: Reviewing a network design for security gaps

MODULE 04

Operations and Resilience

Running infrastructure as a managed service

Change, configuration, and release discipline

Monitoring, alerting, and performance baselines

Incident, problem, and capacity practices

Backup, recovery, and continuity for network and infrastructure services

Supplier and cloud operational responsibilities

Workshop: Defining operating controls for a critical infrastructure service

MODULE 05

Governance, Risk and Improvement

Standards, architecture governance, and exception handling

Risk assessment for network and infrastructure changes

Metrics: availability, performance, security hygiene, and change success

Assurance and audit evidence

Prioritising improvements without disrupting stable services

Capstone: Produce an infrastructure management outline covering architecture, security controls, operations, resilience, and reporting