Introduction

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 an interactive tool that simulates 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.

Audience

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.

At Course Completion

After completing this course, students will be able to:

• Plan a framework for network security.
• Identify threats to network security.
• Analyze security risks.
• Design security for physical resources.
• Design security for computers.
• Design security for accounts.
• Design security for authentication.
• Design security for data.
• Design security for data transmission.
• Design security for network perimeters.
• Design an incident response procedure.

Prerequisites

• A strong familiarity with Microsoft Windows® 2000 core technologies, such as those covered in Microsoft Official Curriculum (MOC) M2152: Implementing Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional and Server.
• A strong familiarity with Windows 2000 networking technologies and implementation, such as those covered in MOC M2153: Implementing a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure.
• A strong familiarity with Windows 2000 directory services technologies and implementation, such as those covered in MOC M2154: Implementing and Administering Microsoft Windows 2000 Directory Services.

Course Outline

• Introduction to Designing Security
  - Introduction to Designing Security for Microsoft Networks
  - Contoso Pharmaceuticals: A Case Study
• Creating a Plan for Network Security
  - Introduction to Security Policies
  - Defining a Process for Designing Network Security
  - Creating a Security Design Team
• Identifying Threats to Network Security
  - Introduction to Security Threats
  - Predicting Threats to Security
• Analyzing Security Risks
  - Introduction to Risk Management
  - Creating a Risk Management Plan
• Creating a Security Design for Physical Resources
  - Determining Threats and Analyzing Risks to Physical Resources
  - Designing Security for Physical Resources
• Creating a Security Design for Computers
  - Determining Threats and Analyzing Risks to Computers
  - Designing Security for Computers
• Creating a Security Design for Accounts
  - Determining Threats and Analyzing Risks to Accounts
  - Designing Security for Accounts
• Creating a Security Design for Authentication
  - Determining Threats and Analyzing Risks to Authentication
  - Designing Security for Authentication
• Creating a Security Design for Data
  - Determining Threats and Analyzing Risks to Data
  - Designing Security for Data
• Creating a Security Design for Data Transmission
  - Determining Threats and Analyzing Risks to Data Transmission
  - Designing Security for Data Transmission
• Creating a Security Design for Network Perimeters
  - Determining Threats and Analyzing Risks to Network Perimeters
  - Designing Security for Network Perimeters
• Designing Responses to Security Incidents
  - Introduction to Auditing and Incident Response
  - Designing an Audit Policy
  - Designing an Incident Response Procedure

Microsoft Certified Professional Exams

Exam 70-220: Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network

Exam 70-298: Designing Security for a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network

Course Materials

The student kit includes a comprehensive workbook and other necessary materials for this class.

Related courses:

• M2150: Designing a Secure Microsoft Windows 2000 Network
• M2159: Deploying and Managing Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2000
• M2810: Fundamentals of Network Security
• M2821: Designing and Managing a Windows Public Key Infrastructure
• M2823: Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network
• M2824: Implementing Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server 2004

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