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Securing Wireless Networks: Hands-On

 
Course: 420     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 4 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Secure wireless networks against threats and attacks
  • Implement the WPA2 and 802.11i security standards to protect your Wi-Fi network
  • Encrypt wireless traffic using Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) or Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)
  • Leverage 802.1X and EAP authentication within an enterprise WLAN
  • Build Wi-Fi auditing and accounting infrastructures
  • Deploy wireless intrusion detection systems (WIDS)

Course Benefits
As organizations provide greater mobility to their users, the risk of threats to security grows and the need for secure wireless networks becomes of paramount concern. In this course, you gain the skills to defend against attacks and maintain security within your wireless network. You learn to detect weakness in your existing network and design and configure a cost-effective security solution.

Who Should Attend
Anyone who manages, operates, audits or implements secure networks. Knowledge of wireless technology at the level of Course 371, "Implementing and Troubleshooting Wi-Fi Networks," is helpful.

Hands-On Training
You gain extensive hands-on experience securing a wireless network. Exercises include:
  • Discovering and sniffing WLANs
  • Decoding and analyzing 802.11 frames
  • Cracking WEP and WPA2 PSK keys
  • Configuring WPA2 on APs and clients
  • Setting up 802.1X authentication
  • Installing and presenting digital certificates to RADIUS server
  • Comparing and contrasting EAP-TLS and PEAP
  • Roaming in a secure environment
  • Configuring a wireless IDS

Course 420 Content
Wireless Security Technologies
Security requirements
  • Availability
  • Confidentiality
  • Data integrity
  • Authenticity
WLAN operation and standards
  • 802.11 (Wi-Fi) standards
  • Frequency allocation and modulation techniques
Wi-Fi access points and stations
  • Sniffing 802.11 Association and Authentication
  • Infrastructure models and roaming
Surveying other wireless technologies
  • Bluetooth WPANs (802.15)
  • WiMAX WWANs (802.16)
Analyzing WPA2 and 802.11i Cryptography
Encrypting Wi-Fi traffic for privacy
  • Symmetric vs. asymmetric algorithms
  • Block Ciphers vs. Streaming Ciphers
  • The role of key hierarchies in encryption
Guaranteeing message integrity
  • Hashing with MD5 and SHA
  • Protecting data with digital signatures
Authenticating users with digital certificates
  • Verifying key ownership
  • Chains of authority
Encrypting Wi-Fi Traffic with TKIP or AES
Overcoming problems with legacy WEP
  • Key reuse
  • Shared Keys
Deploying TKIP as an alternative to WEP
  • Upgrading legacy hardware
  • Rolling TKIP keys per frame
  • Integrity checking with Michael
Migrating to AES encryption
  • Using Counter and Cipher Block Chaining modes with AES
  • AES performance issues
Authenticating Wi-Fi Users with PSK or EAP
Deploying pre-shared key (PSK) authentication
  • Generating master keys from a passphrase
  • Addressing scalability issues
Leveraging the 802.1X standard
  • Incorporating EAP messaging techniques
  • Transporting EAP messages with RADIUS and EAPOL
Choosing EAP implementations
  • EAP-TLS
  • EAP-TTLS
  • PEAP
Authenticating against enterprise directories
  • LDAP
  • Active Directory
  • NT Domains
Creating Secure WLAN Topologies
Designing the wireless security landscape
  • Defining the trusted boundary
  • Centralized vs. distributed control
  • Enforcing access controls
  • Establishing user credentials
Configuring security for roaming
  • Maintaining security contexts
  • 802.11i pre-authentication
  • Roaming in a VPN environment
Evaluating network types
  • Public hot spots
  • Visitor and guest networks
  • Integrated corporate WLAN
Maintaining auditing and accounting systems
  • RADIUS accounting
  • Access Point logging
Detecting and Responding to Wi-Fi Attacks
Denial of Service (DoS) attacks
  • Jamming and RF interference
  • Exploiting the Collision Avoidance (CA) mechanism
  • Forcing 802.11 de-authentication
Conducting War Driving
  • Discovering WLANs using NetStumbler and Kismet
  • Intercepting Wi-Fi traffic with Wireshark
Authentication and privacy attacks
  • WEP key cracking
  • Brute force attacks against WPA PSK
The role of WIDS
  • Detecting and locating unauthorized clients and access points
  • Responding to malicious wireless traffic
  • Creating audit logs

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Course Tuition
$ 2,650 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,660 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,385 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,360 Government Discount
 

 

Securing Wireless Networks: Hands-On
Securing Wireless Networks: Hands-On
Course participants configuring a secure wireless network using WPA2 and 802.11i.

Certification Core Course CPE 23 Credits ISC2 32 A 2 Hour(s) College Credit
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