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Introduction to Internet Security - Agenda

 

Day one:

08:30 WELCOME and INTRODUCTIONS
08:45 COURSE INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW - NDI Faculty
Establishing Effective Security and Defining System Administrator Tasks
• Definitions and terminology
• Understanding the current environment
• Setting program responsibilities
• Conducting risk assessments
• Correcting Vulnerabilities
• Conducting Audits
• Certifying Systems
09:30 BREAK
09:45 UNDERSTANDING IT SECURITY AND DEVELOPING SECURITY POLICIES
• A security policy: The foundation of your protection
• The four objectives: availability, integrity, privacy and authenticity
• Assigning responsibilities
• Conducting a threat reduction analysis
• Determining appropriate countermeasures
• Producing an action plan
• Responding to attacks and limiting damage
• Keeping up to date with vulnerabilities
10:15 WRITTEN EXERCISE
10:30 TCP/IP AND FIREWALLS - Randall Kizer, Chief IT Security, City of San Diego, NDI Associate Faculty
• Overview of TCP/IP
• The importance of firewalls
• Choosing the right firewall
• Types of firewalls
11:00 BREAK
11:15 FIREWALL TOPOLOGIES
• Deploying Firewalls
• Using supportive technologies to provide defense in depth
• Creating virtual private networks (VPNs) using firewall to firewall encryption
• Setting up the DMZ
• Setting up externally accessible servers
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 THWARTING COUNTERFEITERS AND FORGERY TO RETAIN INTEGRITY
• Impersonating Users
• Encrypting files and messages
• Forging e-mail addresses
• Kerberos
• PGP
14:15 BREAK
14:30 HANDS-ON EXERCISE
How to spoof e-mail: This is hands-on demonstration to allow students to understand how e-mail messages are forged. If time permits, students will take the exercise to the next level - create a shell script to send a mail bomb!
15:30 A STUDY IN SOCIAL ENGINEERING - NDI Faculty
16:00 ADJOURN

 

Day two:

08:30 BRIEF REVIEW AND INTRODUCTIONS - NDI Faculty
08:45 NETWORK INTERCONNECTIONS: A MAJOR POINT OF VULNERABILITY - Senior NDI Faculty
• Goals of a Secure IT Infrastructure • Security Challenges
• Regularly Scheduled Maintenance • Common Security Mistakes
• What Needs To Be secured • Component Capabilities
• IT Security Control Objectives • Architectural Vulnerabilities
• Framework for Securing your Infrastructure • Network Vulnerabilities
• Physical Security Concerns • Operating System Vulnerabilities
• Physical Security Guidelines & Information • Application Vulnerabilities
• Policy Security Guidelines & Information • Process Vulnerabilities
09:45 BREAK
10:00 AVOIDING DISRUPTION OF SERVICE TO MAINTAIN AVAILABILITY
• Case Study - Library of Congress Compromise • Virus and Vandal Containment
• Security Goals • Application and Server Proxies
• Complete Lockdown and Security Testing • System Checksums
• Securing Existing Systems • Intrusion Detection Systems
• Blueprint for a Highly Secure Environment • PKI (Public Key Infrastructure)
• Best Practices • Digital Signatures
12:00 LUNCH
13:00 AVOIDING DISRUPTION OF SERVICE TO MAINTAIN AVAILABILITY
• Encryption • SSH
• Authentication • VPNs
• LDAP • Industry Standards
• Web Page Signing • Standard Evaluation
• SSL
14:00 BREAK
14:15 DETERRING HACKERS AND INSURING AUTHENTICITY
• What Hacker's Know That You Don't 
• Hacker Activities
• Attack Statistics
• What an Intruder Needs to Know
15:00 HANDS-ON EXERCISES: HACKER DEMONSTRATIONS - Attacking Systems by:
• Installing packet sniffers • Planting Trojan horse programs
• Target Selection • Expose the weaknesses of common password-based authentication systems
• Host Penetration • Reconnaissance
• Password Decoding • Target Profiling
• Trojans • Vulnerability Mapping
• Known Problems
• Denial of Service Attacks
16:00 ADJOURN

 

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