Welcome to Pluralsight in this Security Architecture and
Engineering Tools course, featuring Squid, the open‑source tool
developed and maintained by the Squid community.
Web proxies are ubiquitous in today's world where organizations seek to
reduce bandwidth and control access to important resources.
You,
the cybersecurity professional working with the web, can provide a great
amount of value to your organization by understanding both the role Squid
plays as a web proxy cache and how Squid can be used to help manage
authentication and access control.
Squid is a tool, which, like its namesake,
moves fast by helping to provide a caching layer on top of web servers.
Its robust access control and authentication mechanisms have played
an important role in its rise as a web proxy cache. In this course,
we'll be focusing on Squid in relation to the protect function of the
NIST cybersecurity framework.
Specifically,
we'll be looking at the identity management, authentication, and
access control category and its subcategory, PR.AC‑4, which ensures
that access permissions are managed properly.
Come join me, Zachary Bennett, as we learn about Identity Management,
Authentication, and Access Control with Squid here, at Pluralsight.