Washington, DC
Webcast vLive
Hacker Guard: Security Baseline Training for IT Administrators and Operations with Continuing Education
Meeting Dates:
Tuesday, Aug 14
Wednesday, Aug 15
Thursday, Aug 16
Friday, Aug 17
Time: 1pm-4pm EST
Laptop Required
Continuing Professional Education Credits: 6 CPE/CMU Credits Per Day
There are not enough well trained IT administrators and operations staff to meet the daily onslaught of cyber criminal and cyber terrorist activities. Sandia National Labs, NASA, and the State of Texas recently demonstrated that we can address this issue by leveraging the large number of IT admins within an organization to act as a hacker guards to help thwart many of these attacks. The goal is to have IT administrators in an organization serve as the first line of defense as human intrusion detectors.
This is an important challenge for organizations because perimeters are routinely being breached, and attackers often roam through networks for weeks or months on end, often without discovery. This new approach, pioneered by organizations such as Sandia Labs, NASA and the State of Texas, is a unique training program for IT operations and admins that teaches them how to:
Discover evidence of intruder activity
Demonstrate how to work effectively with their organization's security professionals and
Provide tools that they can put to work immediately
It's the first security program that is tuned directly to the interests of IT administrators and establishes a clear entry career path from a system admin to security professional.
Topics covered
Why bad things happen to good IT admins: 5 common mis-configurations and mistakes that lead to a system being compromised
Security methodology and thought process in daily systems administration activities
An IT administrator's view of what matters in systems architectures
Security monitoring: Not knowing makes the auditors and hackers happy
The hard part - knowing what is normal for Windows and Unix systems
The harder part - knowing what is abnormal for Windows and Unix systems
Hardening Windows and Unix systems is easier than you thought
Command line kung fu for Unix and Windows
Understanding network traffic for systems administrators
Malware: Why it is still effective in your environment
System Administrators, Network Administrators, Security Engineers, CIOs, CTOs, CISOs, Auditors and Compliance, Security Analyst
Registration Opens:
07/22/2012
Cost:
$1,945
Contact Name: Jenn Herroon
ph:
(301) 654-SANS(7267)
email:
jherroon@sans.org
Company Info:
8120 Woodmont Avenue, Suite 205
Bethesda,
MD.
20814
United States