Information Security Training Classroom Live Herndon, VA May 18, 2021

Course Overview

Module 1: Building a Secure Organization

• Real threats that impact cybersecurity

  • Hackers inside and out
  • Eavesdropping
  • Spoofing
  • Sniffing
  • Trojan horses
  • Viruses
  • Wiretaps

• A cyber security policy: the foundation of your protection

  • Defining your information assurance objectives
  • Assessing your exposure

Module 2: A Cryptography Primer

• Securing data with symmetric encryption

  • Choosing your algorithm: DES, AES, Rc4 and others
  • Assessing key length and key distribution

• Solving key distribution issues with asymmetric encryption

  • Generating keys
  • Encrypting with RSA
  • PGP and GnuPG
  • Evaluating Web of Trust and PKI

• Ensuring integrity with hashes

  • Hashing with Md5 and SHA
  • Protecting data in transit
  • Building the digital signature

Module 3: Verifying User and Host Identity

• Assessing traditional static password schemes

  • Creating a good quality password policy to prevent password guessing and cracking
  • Protecting against social engineering attacks
  • Encrypting passwords to mitigate the impact of password sniffing

• Evaluating strong authentication methods​

  • Preventing password replay using one-time and tokenized passwords
  • Employing biometrics as part of multi-factor authentication

• Authenticating hosts

  • Distrusting IP addresses
  • Address-spoofing issues and countermeasures
  • Solutions for wireless networks

Module 4: Preventing System Intrusions

• Discovering system vulnerabilities​

  • Searching for operating system vulnerabilities
  • Discovering file permission issues
  • Limiting access via physical security

• Encrypting files for confidentiality​

  • Encryption with application-specific tools
  • Recovering encrypted data

• Hardening the operating system

  • Locking down user accounts
  • Securing administrator's permissions
  • Protecting against viruses

Module 5: Guarding Against Network Intrusions

• Scanning for vulnerabilities​

  • Searching for rogue servers
  • Profiling systems and services

• Reducing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks​

  • Securing DNS
  • Limiting the impact of common attacks

• Deploying firewalls to control network traffic​

  • Preventing intrusions with filters
  • Implementing cyber security policy
  • Deploying personal firewalls

• Protecting web services and applications

  • Validating user input
  • Controlling information leakage

Module 6: Ensuring Network Confidentiality

• Threats from the LAN​

  • Sniffing the network
  • Mitigating threats from connected hosts
  • Partitioning the network to prevent data leakage
  • Identifying wireless LAN vulnerabilities

• Confidentiality on external connections

  • Ensuring confidentiality with encryption
  • Securing communication with IPSec