McAfee Network Security Platform

Duration

2 days

Overview

McAfee® Network Security Platform (NSP) is an essential component of a successful intrusion prevention strategy. This course covers the deployment and configurations of the NSP to protect against real-world attacks. It starts from understanding the working behavior of the NSP, choosing a right model to configuring the various policies. This 2-day training will equip the students with the basic skills of setting up the Intrusion Prevention policy to processing the alerts

Audience

This course is aimed at McAfee customers or the system integrators who are responsible to implement and maintain the McAfee Network Security Platform (NSP). The other group of audience would be the security operation personnel who need to process the security events.

Prerequisites

It is recommended that students have a background of network administration and basic knowledge of computer security.

Agenda at a Glance

Day1:

• Network IPS fundamental
• User account management
• Basic sensor configurations
• Attack Set Profile and IPS policy
• IPS alerts

Day2:

• Advanced malware policy
• Advanced callback policy
• DoS policy
• Web server protection
• Firewall policy

Learning Objectives

To understand the common practices of setting up the NSP with the most important policy – the IPS policy and to understand how to process the security alerts captured by the Network IPS.

Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.