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Hands-On Vulnerability Assessment: Protecting Your Organization

Exposing Network Weaknesses
 
Course: 589   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

You Will Learn How To

  • Detect and respond to vulnerabilities that put your organization at risk using scanners
  • Employ real-world exploits and evaluate their effect on your systems
  • Configure vulnerability scanners
  • Analyze the results of vulnerability scans
  • Assess vulnerability alerts and advisories
  • Establish a strategy for vulnerability management

Course Benefits

Knowledge of vulnerability assessment and hacking techniques allows you to detect vulnerabilities before your networks are attacked. In this course, you learn to configure and use vulnerability scanners to detect weaknesses and prevent network exploitation. You acquire the knowledge to assess the risk to your enterprise from an array of vulnerabilities and to minimize your exposure to costly security breaches.

Who Should Attend

Security auditors, firewall/IDS personnel, PCI security testers, network managers and others involved in securing enterprise systems. Experience with network security at the level of Course 468, "System and Network Security Introduction," is assumed. A working knowledge of TCP/IP is also assumed.

Hands-On Training

Exercises provide you with practical experience assessing vulnerabilities and include:
  • Configuring scanners
  • Port scanning and enumeration
  • Scanning infrastructure, servers and desktops
  • Exploiting browsers, IDS, SQL and buffer overflows
  • Investigating and preventing spyware
  • Creating custom vulnerability tests
  • Performing a risk assessment
  • Interpreting scanning reports
  • Identifying false positives and negatives
  • Comparing scanner results

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Upcoming Dates

Nov 4 - 7, 2008
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Feb 3 - 6, 2009
 New York
Mar 17 - 20, 2009
 Washington, DC (Reston, VA)
Mar 31 - Apr 3, 2009
 Ottawa
Apr 28 - May 1, 2009
 Washington, DC (Rockville, MD)
Jul 21 - 24, 2009
 New York

For complete schedule, please visit www.learningtree.com
 
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1-800-THE-TREE (1-800-843-8733)
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Hands-On Vulnerability Assessment: Protecting Your Organization

Exposing Network Weaknesses
 
Course: 589   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 
Course 589 Content
 

Fundamentals

Introduction

  • Defining vulnerability, exploit, threat and risk
  • Identifying the goals of assessments
  • Creating a vulnerability report
  • Conducting an initial scan
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) list

Scanning and exploits

  • Vulnerability detection methods
  • Types of scanners
  • Port scanning and OS fingerprinting
  • Enumerating targets to test information leakage
  • Types of exploits: worm, spyware, backdoor, rootkits, Denial of Service (DoS)
  • Deploying exploit frameworks

Analyzing Vulnerabilities and Exploits

Uncovering infrastructure vulnerabilities

  • Scanning the infrastructure
  • Uncovering switch weaknesses
  • Vulnerabilities in Ethereal and Wireshark
  • Network management tool attacks

Attacks against firewalls and IDS

  • Firewall weaknesses
  • Identifying the Snort IDS buffer overflow
  • Corrupting memory with format string errors

Exposing server vulnerabilities

  • Scanning servers: assessing vulnerabilities on your network
  • Canonicalization and privilege escalation
  • Catching input validation errors
  • Performing buffer overflow attacks
  • SQL injection
  • Cross-site scripting (XSS) and cookie theft

Revealing desktop vulnerabilities

  • Scanning for desktop vulnerabilities
  • Client buffer overflows
  • Silent downloading: spyware and adware
  • Attacking cross-application vulnerabilities
  • Identifying browser plug-in weaknesses

Configuring Scanners and Generating Reports

Implementing scanner operations and configuration

  • Choosing credentials, ports and dangerous tests
  • Identifying dependencies
  • Preventing false negatives
  • Creating custom vulnerability tests
  • Fixing Nessus scans
  • Handling false positives

Creating and interpreting reports

  • Filtering and customizing reports
  • Interpreting differential reports
  • Contrasting the results of different scanners
  • Producing a differential report

Assessing Risks in a Changing Environment

Researching alert information

  • Using the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to find relevant vulnerability and patch information
  • Evaluating and investigating security alerts and advisories
  • Determining vulnerability severity
  • Employing the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

Identifying factors that affect risk

  • Evaluating the impact of a successful attack
  • Calculating vulnerability severity
  • Weighing important risk factors
  • Performing a risk assessment

Managing Vulnerabilities

The vulnerability management cycle

  • Applying a vulnerability process
  • Standardizing scanning with Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL)
  • Patch and configuration management

Vulnerability controversies

  • Rewards for vulnerability discovery
  • Bounties on hackers
  • Legal issues and disclosure
 
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Hands-On Vulnerability Assessment: Protecting Your Organization Tuition

Exposing Network Weaknesses
 
Course: 589   Type: Hands-On Training   Duration: 4 Days
 
 

Course Tuition
$ 2,790 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,800 10-Day Pass
$ 1,670 Training Passport
$ 1,700 Premium-Pass
$ 2,200 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,515 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,484 Government 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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