Defense in Depth Course

This hands-on course is designed to give information security professionals and network managers the tools necessary to design a comprehensive network security protection plan to protect critical assets from attack. The course proposes a 'Defense in Depth' approach which includes firewalls, IDS, vulnerability assessment and remediation and strategies for anti-virus and content security.

Students will have an opportunity to use automated network vulnerability assessment tools to carry out scans, evaluate the results and decide on a remediation plan. Course attendees will also learn how to identify common attack characteristics, and utilize different approaches for host and network-based intrusion prevention and detection.

As part of this course students can also conduct a security assessment scan of their own networks from the Internet.

Course Length - 1 Day

Pre-requisites

Essential: Knowledge of TCP/IP and the Internet. Network management experience.
Desirable: Some experience with security policy design, network sniffing, IDS.

What you will learn

'Defense in Depth' is a daylong course which combines theoretical classroom-based presentation and discussion with practical labs. Course content includes:

• Analysis of real world attack patterns and techniques used on the Internet as recorded by live firewalls, IDS and "Honey Pots"
• Developing a Defense
• How to identify "Critical Assets"
• Identifying vulnerabilities of those assets
• Developing a risk model
• Developing a Security Protection Plan
• Roles and limits of firewalls
• Best Practice based IDS design
• Implementing a Vulnerability Management Plan
• Content Security including Anti-Virus, Peer To Peer, rogue HTTP masquerading and tunnels.
• Setting up an Emergency Response Team

Course cost

The cost of this one day course is $895. This includes course notes and a restaurant lunch.