System and Network Security

You will learn how to

• Analyze your  exposure to security threats and protect your organization’s system and data
• 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

Building a secure organization

• Real threats that impact Cyber security
• A cyber security policy: the foundation of your protection

A cryptography primer

• Securing data with symmetric encryption
• Solving key distribution issues with asymmetric encryption
• Ensuring integrity with hashes

Verifying user and host identity

• Assessing traditional static password schemes
• Evaluating strong authentication methods
• Authenticating hosts

Preventing system intrusions

• Discovering system vulnerabilities
• Encrypting files for confidentiality
• Hardening the operating system

Guarding against network intrusions

• Scanning for vulnerabilities
• Reducing denial-of-service (DoS) attacks
• Deploying firewalls to control network traffic
• Building network firewalls

Ensuring network confidentiality

• Threats from the LAN
• Confidentiality on external connections

FOR WHOM:Network Administrators, System Administrators, IT Personnel and those who require the fundamental skills to develop and implement security schemes designed to protect their organization’s information from threats.

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.