Risks and threats

• Introduction to security.
• Overview of IT security.
• IT security vocabulary.
• "Low-level" attacks.
• Strengths and weaknesses of the TCP/IP protocol.
• Illustration of ARP, IP Spoofing, TCP-SYNflood, SMURF, and other attacks.
• Denial of service and distributed denial of service.
• Application attacks.
• Intelligence gathering.
• HTTP: A particularly vulnerable protocol (SQL injection, Cross Site Scripting, etc.).
• DNS: Dan Kaminsky attack.
• Hands-on work ¤Installation and use of the Wireshark network analyzer. Implementing an application solution.

Security architectures

• What architectures for what needs?
• Secure addressing plan: RFC 1918.
• Address translation (FTP as an example).
• The role of demilitarized zones (DMZ).
• Example architectures.
• Making the architecture secure through virtualization.
• Firewalls: Cornerstone of security.
• Actions and limits of traditional network firewalls.
• Technological change in firewalls (Appliance, VPN, IPS, UTM, etc.).
• Firewalls and virtual environments.
• Proxy server and application relay.
• Proxy or firewall: Conflicting or complementary?
• Reverse proxy, content filtering, cache, and authentication.
• SMTP relay, a must?
• Hands-on work ¤Implementation of a Caching proxy/Authentication.

Data security

• Cryptography.
• Symmetrical and asymmetrical encryption. Hash functions.
• Cryptographic services.
• User authentication.
• Importance of reciprocal authentication.
• X509 certificates. Electronic signature. Radius. LDAP.
• Worms, virus, Trojans, malware, and keyloggers.
• Current trends. Antiviruses available, complementary nature of elements. EICAR, a “virus” to recognize.
• Hands-on work ¤Deploying an SMTP relay and an HTTP/FTP antivirus proxy. Implementing a server certificate.

Transfer security

• WiFi security.
• Risks inherent in wireless networks.
• The limits of WEP. WPA and WPA2 protocol.
• Types of attacks.
• Man in the Middle attack with Rogue AP.
• The IPSec protocol.
• Overview of the protocol.
• Tunnel and transport modes. ESP and AH.
• Analyzing the protocol and associated technologies (SA, IKE, ISAKMP, ESP, AH, etc.).
• The SSL/TLS protocols.
• Overview of the protocol. Details of the negotiation
• Analysis of main vulnerabilities.
• Sslstrip and sslsnif attacks.
• The SSH protocol. Overview and features
• Differences with SSL.
• Hands-on work ¤Carrying out a Man in the Middle attack on an SSL session. Implementing IPSec transport mode/PSK.

Making a system secure, “Hardening”

• Presentation.
• Insufficiency of default installations.
• Evaluation criteria (TCSEC, ITSEC, and common criteria).
• Making Windows secure.
• Account and authorization management.
• Control of services.
• Network configuration and auditing.
• Making Linux secure.
• Kernel configuration.
• File system.
• Network and service management.
• Hands-on work ¤Example of making a Windows and Linux system secure.

Auditing and security on an everyday basis

• Tools and techniques available
• Intrusion tests: Tools and means.
• Detecting vulnerabilities (scanners, IDS probes, etc.).
• Real-time IDS-IPS detection tools, agent, probe, or cut-off.
• Reacting effectively in all circumstances.
• Supervision and administration.
• Organizational impacts.
• Technological monitoring.

Case study

• Prior study.
• Analysis of needs.
• Creating an architecture.
• Defining the action plan.
• Deployment.
• Approach to installing elements.
• Implementing the filtering policy.
• Hands-on work ¤Creating flow management.