Designing Security for Microsoft Networks

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 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.

Pre-Requisites

Before attending this course, students must:

A strong familiarity with Windows Server 2003 core technologies, such as those covered in Course 2273: Managing and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Environment.
A strong familiarity with Windows Server 2003 networking technologies and implementation, such as those covered in:
- Course 2276: Implementing a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Hosts
- Course 2277: Implementing, Managing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure: Network Services , and
- Course 2278: Planning and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Network Infrastructure
- A strong familiarity with Windows Server 2003 directory services technologies and implementation, such as those covered in Course 2279: Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Active Directory Infrastructure

Outcomes

After completing this course, students will gain the skills to:

Plan a framework for network security.
Identify threats to network security.
Analyze security risks.
Design security for physical resources, computers, accounts and services, authentication, data, data transmission, and network perimeters.
Design an incident response procedure.
In addition, this course contains three teachable appendices that cover:
- Designing an acceptable use policy.
- Designing policies for managing networks.
- Designing an operations framework for managing security.