Course Length:

5 Days

Course Description:

This course is designed to provide the foundation knowledge to network administrators and security professionals who are seeking to learn about advanced security issues surrounding PKI and biometrics. Advanced Security Implementation is designed to provide network administrators and security architects with an awareness of security-related issues and the essential skills they need to implement security in a given network. It is the first course offered in the second level of the Security Certified Program. This course is followed by Enterprise Security Solutions (ESS).

Who Should Attend:

This class is for network administrators and security professionals who are seeking to learn about advanced security issues surrounding PKI and biometrics.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Describe the fundamentals of trusted networks.
• Describe the concepts and principles of cryptography.
• Implement computer forensic tools.
• Identify current laws and legislation that influence computer security professionals.
• Describe biometric solutions, including fingerprint scanning, iris scanning, and vocal scanning.
• Describe strong authentication solutions and implement token-based strong authentication.
• Describe the function of digital certificates.
• Describe the implementation of digital signatures.

Prerequisites:

To ensure your success, you are strongly recommended to first take Security Certified Program: Tactical Perimeter Defense and Security Certified Program: Strategic Infrastructure Security or have equivalent knowledge.

Course Outline:

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Trusted Networks
  1. The Need For Trusted Networks
  2. Authentication and Identification
  3. Public Key Infrastructure
  4. Applications of PKI
• Lesson 2: Cryptography and Data Security
  1. History of Cryptography
  2. Math and Algorithms
  3. Private Key Exchange
  4. Public Key Exchange
  5. Message Authentication
• Lesson 3: Computer Forensics
  1. Incident Response
  2. Computer Forensic Fundamentals
  3. Hard Disk Structure
  4. Forensic Tools
  5. Investigating Computers
  6. Computer Forensics Solutions
• Lesson 4: Law and Legislation
  1. Intellectual Property
  2. Categories and Types of Law
  3. Process of Handling Evidence
  4. Information Security-related Laws and Acts
• Lesson 5: Biometrics—Who You Are
  1. The Process of Biometrics Today
  2. Accuracy of Biometrics
  3. Applications of Biometrics
  4. Fingerprint Scanning
  5. Facial Scanning
  6. Iris and Retinal Scanning
  7. Vocal Scanning
  8. Further Biometric Technologies
  9. Techniques for Compromising Biometrics
• Lesson 6: Strong Authentication
  1. Why Strong Authentication
  2. Authentication Tokens
  3. RSA SecurID
  4. Smart Cards
• Lesson 7: Digital Certificates
  1. Paper Certificates and Identity Cards
  2. Authorities that Issue Physical Certificates
  3. The Importance of Protecting the Identity of the CA
  4. Differences between Physical and Digital Certificates
  5. Standards for Digital Certificates
  6. X.509 as an Authentication Standard
  7. Case Study—VeriSign’s Digital Certificates
• Lesson 8: Digital Signatures
  1. Signatures as Identifiers
  2. Features of Digital Signatures
  3. Digital Signatures in Practice
  4. Standards for Digital Signatures
  5. Digital Signatures and PKI
• Appendix A: About FIPS PUB
  1. Federal Information Processing Standards Publication
• Appendix B: PKI-related Acronyms
  1. PKI-related Acronyms