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Securing Exchange 2007: Hands-On

Addressing Compliance Requirements

 
Course: 981     Type: Hands-On Training     Duration: 3 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Create a secure Exchange 2007 environment
  • Assess e-mail vulnerabilities within your organization
  • Protect your environment from internal threats
  • Minimize risk to Exchange servers from malicious Internet-based attacks
  • Implement certificates effectively to safeguard e-mail content
  • Benefit from the built-in features of Exchange and third-party products to assist in regulatory compliance

Course Benefits
Administrators are under constant demand to safeguard messaging data. Exchange 2007 provides the capability to secure the integrity and availability of e-mail within an organization. In this course, you gain the knowledge and skills to build a secure Exchange 2007 infrastructure and successfully implement its built-in compliance features.

Who Should Attend
Systems and network administrators who need to enhance the security of their Exchange infrastructure. Experience with Exchange at the level of Course 980, "Exchange Server 2007 Administration," is assumed. Experience with the Active Directory is helpful.

Hands-On Training
Extensive hands-on exercises provide you with practical experience securing your Exchange environment and implementing built-in tools to assist in compliance. Exercises include:
  • Analyzing security threats to an Exchange infrastructure
  • Auditing administrators in their daily tasks
  • Exposing mixed environment security issues
  • Defending against SMTP attacks
  • Protecting Exchange with an ISA server
  • Implementing a message hygiene appliance
  • Integrating the use of RMS with Exchange

Course 981 Content
Introduction to Security and Compliance
Exploiting security vulnerabilities
  • Common e-mail hacking methodologies
  • Exploring SMTP fundamentals
  • Defending against SMTP attacks
  • Utilizing tarpitting to thwart directory harvest attacks
  • Logging activities to identify hackers
  • Analyzing The Trustworthy Computing Initiative from Microsoft and its relationship to Exchange
Meeting your e-mail compliance needs
  • Investigating regulatory requirements
  • Selecting the best compliance methods
Hardening your Internal Server Configuration
Reducing vulnerabilities from within your organization
  • Strengthening Exchange with service packs and security updates
  • Delegating with the principles of least privilege
  • Auditing administrative actions with event logging for accountability
  • Creating security templates with the Security Configuration Wizard
  • Ensuring consistent security settings across the Exchange organization
Protecting e-mail in transit
  • Defining Transport Layer Security (TLS) architecture and best practices
  • Securing your infrastructure in a mixed environment with legacy Exchange servers
  • Analyzing network traffic for suspicious activity with Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)
  • Utilizing transport rules to organize messages
Safeguarding Servers from External Threats
Minimizing SMTP transport risk
  • Deploying message and connection filtering to reject unwanted e-mail
  • Utilizing Microsoft Forefront as an anti-virus solution
  • Implementing non-Microsoft message hygiene solutions
Creating a protective perimeter network
  • Leveraging firewalls to publish client access servers securely
  • Shielding Exchange from direct Internet access with Microsoft ISA Server
Maximizing E-Mail Security
Demystifying digital encryption
  • Fundamentals of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  • Communicating securely outside your organization with trusted Certification Authorities (CA)
Integrating certificates with Outlook
  • Implementing certificates for secure messaging in Outlook
  • Encrypting and signing e-mail with Outlook
  • Verifying sender identity and message authenticity with digital signatures
  • Ensuring message confidentiality with digital encryption
Controlling e-mail content
  • Setting up a Rights Management Server (RMS)
  • Configuring Rights Management policies to limit the actions of users
  • Capitalizing on Rights Management features in Outlook
  • Performing a cross mailbox search
Simplifying E-Mail Compliance
Exchange built-in compliance components
  • Configuring e-mail journaling
  • Journaling all messages to meet industry regulations
  • Fine-tuning managed folders to meet message retention requirements
  • Controlling e-mail life cycle with managed folders
  • Exploiting transport rules to categorize and redirect messages
  • Leveraging the improved search capabilities of Outlook and Exchange
Incorporating external solutions
  • Integrating SharePoint with Exchange for long-term storage and classification of messaging data
  • Interoperating with third-party products to simplify compliance administration

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Course Tuition
$ 2,250 Standard Tuition
Tuition with a Savings Plan
$ 1,245 10-Day Pass
$ 1,665 Training Passport
$ 1,830 Flex-Pass
$ 2,095 Voucher 10-Pack
$ 2,025 Alumni Gold Discount
$ 2,000 Government Discount
 

 

Securing Exchange 2007: Hands-On
Securing Exchange 2007: Hands-On
Course participants defending against SMTP attacks.

CPE 17 Credits 1 Hour(s) College Credit
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