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System and Network Security: A Comprehensive Introduction

 
Course: 468   Type: Workshop Course   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Analyze your exposure to security threats and protect your organization's systems and data
  • Reduce your susceptibility to an attack by deploying firewalls and data encryption
  • Assess alternative user and host authentication mechanisms
  • Manage risks emanating from inside the organization and from the Internet
  • Protect network users from hostile applications and viruses
  • Identify the security risks that need to be addressed within your organization

Course Benefits

In today's Internet-dependent business environment, organizations must link their systems across enterprise-wide and virtual private networks as well as connect mobile users. Each connection increases exposure to customers, competitors and hackers, magnifying vulnerability to attack. In this course, you learn how to analyze risks to your networks and the steps needed to select and deploy the appropriate countermeasures to reduce your exposure to network threats.

Who Should Attend

Those who require the fundamental skills to develop and implement security schemes designed to protect their organization's information from threats.

Workshop Course

Exercises and workshops provide you with experience analyzing system and network security. Activities include:
  • Cracking passwords using rainbow tables
  • Scanning systems with Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA)
  • Restricting computer access with biometrics
  • Preventing unwanted network access with a personal firewall
  • Encrypting and signing important data
  • Discovering security best practices

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Upcoming Dates

Mar 23 - 26, 2010
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Apr 6 - 9, 2010
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Apr 27 - 30, 2010
 New York
May 4 - 7, 2010
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
May 11 - 14, 2010
 Chicago (Schaumburg)
Jun 1 - 4, 2010
 Ottawa
Jun 8 - 11, 2010
 Boston (Waltham)
Jun 15 - 18, 2010
 Toronto
Jun 15 - 18, 2010
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Jun 22 - 25, 2010
 Dallas
Jul 6 - 9, 2010
 Los Angeles
Jul 13 - 16, 2010
 Washington, DC (Alexandria, VA)
Sep 7 - 10, 2010
 Atlanta
Sep 21 - 24, 2010
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Sep 28 - Oct 1, 2010
 Philadelphia

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System and Network Security: A Comprehensive Introduction

 
Course: 468   Type: Workshop Course   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 468 Content
 

Building a Secure Organization

Real threats that impact security

  • Hackers inside and out
  • Eavesdropping
  • Spoofing
  • Sniffing
  • Trojan horses
  • Viruses
  • Wiretaps

A security policy: the foundation of your protection

  • Defining your information assurance objectives
  • Assessing your exposure

A Cryptography Primer

Securing data with symmetric encryption

  • Choosing your algorithm: DES, AES, RC4 and others
  • Assessing key length and key distribution

Solving key distribution issues with asymmetric encryption

  • Generating keys
  • Encrypting with RSA
  • PGP and GnuPG
  • Evaluating Web of Trust and PKI

Ensuring integrity with hashes

  • Hashing with MD5 and SHA
  • Protecting data in transit
  • Building the digital signature

Verifying User and Host Identity

Assessing traditional static password schemes

  • Creating a good quality password policy to prevent password guessing and cracking
  • Protecting against social engineering attacks
  • Encrypting passwords to mitigate the impact of password sniffing

Evaluating strong authentication methods

  • Challenge-response to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks
  • Preventing password replay using one-time and tokenized passwords
  • Employing biometrics as part of two-factor authentication

Authenticating hosts

  • Shortcomings of IP addresses
  • Address-spoofing issues and countermeasures
  • Solutions for wireless networks

Preventing System Intrusions

Discovering system vulnerabilities

  • Searching for operating system holes
  • Discovering file permission issues
  • Limiting access via physical security

Encrypting files for confidentiality

  • Encryption with application-specific tools
  • Recovering encrypted data

Hardening the operating system

  • Locking down user accounts
  • Securing administrator's permissions
  • Protecting against viruses

Guarding against Network Intrusions

Scanning for vulnerabilities

  • Restricting access to critical services
  • Preventing buffer overflows

Reducing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks

  • Securing DNS
  • Limiting the impact of common attacks

Deploying firewalls to control network traffic

  • Analyzing shortcomings of stateless packet filters
  • Contrasting stateful packet filters with application proxies
  • Preventing intrusions with filters

Building network firewalls

  • Evaluating firewall features
  • Selecting an architecture and a personal firewall

Ensuring Network Confidentiality

Threats from the LAN

  • Sniffing the network
  • Mitigating threats from connected hosts
  • Partitioning the network to prevent data leakage
  • Identifying wireless LAN vulnerabilities

Confidentiality on external connections

  • Ensuring confidentiality with encryption
  • Securing data-link layer with PPTP and L2TP
  • Middleware information assurance with SSL and TLS
  • Deploying SSH (the Secure Shell)

Protecting data with IPsec

  • Authenticating remote locations
  • Tunneling traffic between sites
  • Exchanging keys

Managing Your Organization's Security

  • Developing a security plan
  • Responding to incidents
  • Enumerating the six critical steps
 
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System and Network Security: A Comprehensive Introduction Tuition

 
Course: 468   Type: Workshop Course   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course Tuition
$ 2,890 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,623Premium-Pass
$ 1,833Training Passport
$ 2,166Triple-Pack
$ 2,250Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,573Government Discount
$ 2,600Alumni Gold Discount
 

Your Course Tuition Entitles You To...

  • Class participation
  • Team workshops
  • Use of in-class hands-on equipment
  • Comprehensive course materials
  • Morning and afternoon refreshments
  • Course Completion Certificate awarding Continuing Education Units
  • FREE participation in Professional Certification
  • FREE participation in College Credit programs (including related exams)
  
 

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  • 4 courses in 24 months
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  • Save as much as 45%
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  • Save as much as $1,040 per course
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