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System Administration and Security

Course outline

4 days
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Duration

4 days

Overview

This course covers the installation and configuration of mainstream operating systems, important network services, disaster recovery procedures, and techniques for ensuring the security of the system.

Objectives

After completing this course, delegates should be able to:

  • Students will learn and apply basic concepts and methodologies of System Administration and Security by building from the ground up a miniature corporate network.
  • They will be responsible for installing backend servers that users would normally require for day to day operations.
  • They will also be responsible for validating, from a user’s perspective that their network is functional.
  • Lastly, they will implement security measures into the network and do a risk assessment as to how effective their security measures are and their fellow students.

Outline

Windows Portion:

I. Security Basics

  • Principles of Information Security

II. Securing the Server Itself

  • Authentication: Proof of identity
  • Authorization: Limiting System Access and Controlling Using Behavior
  • Restricting Access to Software; Restricting Software Access to Resources
  • Controlling Access to Data
  • EFS Basics

III. Maintenance and Recovery

  • Maintenance Strategies and Administrative Practices
  • Basics of Data Backup and Restore

IV. Monitoring and Audit

  • Auditing
  • Monitoring and Assessment

Laboratory Exercises:

Part 1. Server Installation and Configuration

  • Introducing Windows Server 2008
  • Installing Windows Server 2008
  • Configuring Windows Server 2008 Basic Settings
  • Configuring Server roles and services
  • Managing hard drives and volumes

Part 2. Network Users, Resources, and Special Server Roles

  • Understanding and configuring Active Directory Domain services
  • Creating Active Directory groups, Organizational Units, and Sites
  • Adding client computers and member servers to the domain
  • Deploying group policy and network access
  • Working with network shares and the distributed file system

Linux Portion:

I. Introduction to Linux Systems

  • Booting and Shutting Down processes
  • Rootly Powers
  • Controlling Processes
  • The File System
  • Adding New Users
  • Periodic Processes

II. Understanding Configuration Management

  • Software and Configuration Management

III. Understanding Linux Networking

  • TCP/IP Networking
  • IV. Introduction to Networking Technologies (DHCP, DNS, NFS/iSCSI, SMTP, SNMP, LAMP)
  • Routing
  • Network Hardware
  • DNS
  • The Network File System
  • Network Management and Debugging

V. Introduction to Firewall/IDS/SSH

  • Key Certificates, etc.
  • Understanding Exposure Risk

VI. Securing Linux

  • Security

VII. Log Auditing and Vulnerability Assessment

  • Syslog and Log Files

VIII. Windows and Linux Coexisting

  • Cooperating with Windows

Laboratory Exercises:

Part 1. Linux OS installation

  • Ubuntu 10.10 installation
  • CentOS 5.6 installation

Part 2. DMZ setup and SSH server

  • Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Setup
  • SSH Server Installation
  • Router Setup

Part 3. Key Certificates, IP Tables

  • Public Key Installation
  • Securing the network with IP Tables
  • Groogle incident

Part 4. DNS

  • DNS Master and Slave servers
  • Updating Microsoft DNS server

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