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Course number HL945S
Length 3 days
Delivery method Remotely assisted instructional learning ( RAIL)
Instructor-led training ( ILT)
Onsite dedicated training ( OST)
Price USD $1,680
CAD $1,848

Course overview

This 3-day course prepares you to look at your business through a security lens, and to develop and implement a comprehensive information security strategy that will help your business to stay competitive. It covers key security concepts, providing real-world examples of how to implement security measures and risk mitigation methods in your Business. This training is a valuable resource in preparation for many industry recognized certification exams.


Prerequisites

  • A basic understanding of operating systems and networks
  • Some experience with managing networks is helpful but not required

Audience

  • IT Professionals who want an overview of security concepts and techniques
  • Managers who want to understand the critical areas of information security
  • Anyone working towards an industry recognized certification such as ISO/IEC27002, CISSP, Security+, CCSK or CISMP

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Next steps

  • Risk Management (HL946S)
  • Business Contingency (HL947S)
  • Security Policy and Governance for the Enterprise (HL948S) – coming soon

Course outline

Module 1: Setting a Secure Foundation

  • Key security terminology
  • Security and your company
  • Security compliance requirements
  • Security lifecycle
  • Tenets of security
  • TCP/IP technical refresher

Module 2: Understanding and Managing Risk

  • Risk and risk management terms
  • Apply definitions to an environment
  • Potential threat vectors
  • Business impact analysis
  • Common enterprise vulnerabilities
  • Levels of risk
  • Performing quantitative and qualitative risk assessment
  • Risk response strategy appropriate to level of risk
  • Identify risk response strategies
  • Applying risk analysis to an enterprise scenario

Module 3: Business continuity planning

  • Importance of contingency or continuity planning
  • Conditions that make it necessary
  • Relationship to risk management
  • Key elements of service level agreements
  • Levels of redundancy
  • Redundancy considerations
  • Testing your BCP
  • Applying BCP to an enterprise scenario

Module 4: Threats, Vulnerabilities, Attacks, and Countermeasures

  • The most common attacks involving technology
  • Physical and social forms of security attack
  • Common malware overview

Module 5: Consumerization of IT and the Cloud

  • Defining consumerization of IT
  • Recognizing consumerization effects to the enterprise
  • Identifying security risks in consumerization
  • Security and mobile devices
  • Social media risks and policies
  • Cloud computing benefits and security risks
  • Security policy basics for consumerization

Module 6: Security Technologies

  • Firewall operation and network security
  • Intrusion detection and prevention systems
  • Cryptography - secure communications
  • Virtual private networks for security

Module 7: Useful Tools

  • Vulnerability scanning
  • Interpreting results and generating management reports
  • Identifying tools to use
  • Using Nessus to scan port vulnerabilities
  • Using Network Mapper to identify systems on the network
  • Using Netstumbler wireless network scanner

Module 8: Best Practices, Frameworks, and Security Policy

  • Best practice checklist
  • Understanding security frameworks available
  • Most overlooked and underestimated threats

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