DESCRIPTION AND BENEFITS

On this brand new HANDS-ON two-day workshop you will:

• find out how potentially insecure connecting to the internet can be, what the main risks are and how firewall technology should be used
• have HANDS-ON access to many of the components of internetworking in the training room
• discover how victim systems are abused and how firewalling can reduce these threats
• learn everything you need to conduct a firewall audit

Over two days of hands-on activities in our Training Laboratory we'll show you everything you need to know about firewall technology. We'll address all the key security issues and give you a sound understanding of how to tackle a firewall audit.

All the technical components will be explained to you so you can understand how the various elements work together. You'll have a chance to examine first-hand in the Lab many of these internetworking components - PKI encryption software, a web site, CGI programs, a firewall and much, much more.

Using your workstations your presenter will show you how victim systems are abused and how firewalling is used to reduce these threats.

Aimed at Computer Auditors and Computer Security specialists, this workshop has some technical content, but this is in breadth rather than in depth.

WHAT WILL BE COVERED

Introduction
• who and what are we protecting ourselves against

Communications protocols used on the internet
• ports and services
• network services
• intruder techniques
• port scanning and detection
• TCP/IP threats

Harvesting information
• what intruders are looking for
• tools of the trade
• attack signatures

Introducing encryption
• business objectives
• types of encryption
• virtual private networks

Securing firewalls and controlling traffic
• firewalls - strategy, security and control
• perimeter content checking
• application level filtering and proxy services

Auditing firewalls
• how to audit your firewalls

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