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Designing Security for a Microsoft Server 2003 Network

Course ID: HLT 2830

Course Length: 3 days

Course Description:
This three-day instructor-led course provides you with the knowledge and skills to design a secure network infrastructure. Topics include assembling the design team, modeling threats, and analyzing security risks in order to meet business requirements for securing computers in a networked environment. The course encourages decision-making skills through real-life scenarios that the target audience may encounter. You are given the task of collecting the information and sorting through the details to resolve the given security requirement.

Target Student:
This course is intended for IT systems engineers and security specialists who are responsible for establishing security policies and procedures for an organization. Students should have one to three years of experience designing related business solutions.

Prerequisites:
To ensure your success, we recommend you first have equivalent knowledge:

Delivery Method:
Instructor led, group-paced, classroom-delivery learning model with structured hands-on activities.

Performance-Based Objectives :
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Plan a framework for network security.
  • Identify threats to network security and analyze security risks.
  • Design security for physical resources and network perimeters.
  • Design security for computers, accounts, services, authentication, data and data transmission.
  • Design an incident response procedure.
  • Design an acceptable use policy.
  • Design policies for managing networks.
  • Design an operations framework for managing security.

Course Content

Lesson 1: Introduction to Designing Security
Topic 1A: Introduction to Designing Security for Microsoft Networks
Topic 1B: Contoso Pharmaceuticals: A Case Study

Lesson 2: Creating a Plan for Network Security
Topic 2A: Introduction to Security Policies
Topic 2B: Designing Security by Using a Framework
Topic 2C: Creating a Security Design Team

Lesson 3: Identifying Threats to Network Security
Topic 3A: Introduction to Security Threats
Topic 3B: Predicting Threats to Security

Lesson 4: Analyzing Security Risks
Topic 4A: Introduction to Risk Management
Topic 4B: Creating a Risk Management Plan

Lesson 5: Designing Physical Security for Network Resources
Topic 5A: Creating a Plan for Physical Security
Topic 5B: Creating a Design for Physical Security of Network Resources

Lesson 6: Designing Security for Network Hosts
Topic 6A: Creating a Security Plan for Network Hosts
Topic 6B: Creating a Design for the Security of Network Hosts

Lesson 7: Designing Security for Accounts and Services
Topic 7A: Creating a Security Plan for Accounts
Topic 7B: Creating a Security Plan for Services
Topic 7C: Creating a Design for Security of Accounts and Services

Lesson 8: Designing Security for Authentication
Topic 8A: Creating a Security Plan for Authentication
Topic 8B: Creating a Design for Security of Authentication

Lesson 9: Designing Security for Data
Topic 9A: Creating a Security Plan for Data
Topic 9B: Creating a Design for Security of Data

Lesson 10: Designing Security for Data Transmission
Topic 10A: Creating a Security Plan for Data Transmission
Topic 10B: Creating a Design for Security of Data Transmission

Lesson 11: Designing Security for Network Perimeters
Topic 11A: Creating a Security Plan for the Perimeter of a Network
Topic 11B: Creating a Design for Security of Network Perimeters

Lesson 12: Designing Security for Network Perimeters
Topic 12A: Introduction to Auditing and Incident Response
Topic 12B: Designing an Audit Policy
Topic 12C: Designing and Incident Response Procedure

Appendix A: Designing an Acceptable Use Policy
Analyzing Risks That Users Introduce
Designing Security for Computer Use

Appendix B: Designing Policies for Managing Networks
Analyzing Risks to Managing Networks
Designing Security for Managing Networks

Appendix C: Designing an Operations Framework to Manage Security
Analyzing Risks to Ongoing Network Operations
Designing a Framework for Ongoing Network Operations