Course Description:
This course is designed to provide fundamental skills needed to analyze the internal and external security threats against a network, and to develop security policies that will protect an organization’s information. Students will learn how to evaluate network and Internet security issues and design, and how to implement successful security policies and firewall strategies. In addition, they will learn how to expose system and network vulnerabilities and defend against them.
Who Should Attend:

Network server administrators, firewall administrators, systems administrators, application developers, and IT security officers


Duration:

5 days (9:00 – 5:00)

Certification:


The e-Business certification 312-38 exam will be conducted on the last day of training. Students need to pass the online Prometric exam to receive the CEA certification

 

Course Outline V2:

Module I - Firewall Planning and Design

 

  • What is a Firewall?

 

 Firewalls Provide Security Features

 

 Firewalls Provide Protection for Individual Users

 
  • Firewalls Provide Perimeter Security for Networks

 
  • Firewalls Consists of Multiple Components

 

 Firewalls Confront Many Threats and Perform Many Security Tasks
 

Types of Firewall Protection

 

Multilayer Firewall Protection

 

Packet Filtering

  NAT
  Application Layer Gateways
 

Limitations of Firewalls

  Evaluating Firewall Packages
 

Firewall Hardware

  Software-Only Packages

Module II - Developing a Security Policy

 

  • What is a Security Policy?

 

Why is a Security Policy Important?

 

 Setting Goals for an Effective Security Policy?

 

 The Seven Steps to Building a Security Policy?

 

 Developing Policy Team

 

 Determining the Organization’s Overall Approach to Security
 

Identifying the Assets to be Protected

  Determining What Should be Audited for Security
  Identifying Security Risks
  Defining Acceptable Use
 

Providing for Remote Access

  Accounting for What the Firewall Cannot Do
  Defining Responses to Security Violations
  Educating Employees
  Presenting and Reviewing the Process
  Amending Security Policies

Module III - Firewall Configuration Strategies

 

  • Establishing Rules and Restrictions for your Firewall

 

 The Role of Rules File

 

 Restrictive Firewalls

 

 Connectivity Based Firewalls

 

Firewall Configuration Strategies
  Scalability
  Productivity
 

Dealing with IP Address Issues
  Different Firewall Configuration Strategies
 

Screening Router

  Dual-Homed Host
  Screened Host
 

Two Routers, One Firewall
 

DMZ Screened Subnet

 

Multiple-Firewall DMZs
 

Reverse Firewalls

 

  • Specialty Firewalls

  NAT
  Encryption
  Application Proxies
 

VPNs

  Intrusion Detection Systems

Module IV - Project Integration Management

 
  • Describe an overall framework for project integration management as it relates to the other project management knowledge areas and the project life cycle

 

 Describe project plan development, including project plan content, using guidelines and templates for developing plans, and performing a stakeholder analysis to help manage relationships

 

 Explain project plan execution, its relationship to project planning, the factors related to successful results, and tools and techniques to assist in project plan execution Make or buy decision

 

 Understand the integrated change control process, planning for and managing changes on information technology projects, and developing and using a change control system

 

 Describe how software can assist in project integration management

Module V - Project Scope Management

 
  • Understand the elements that make good project scope management important

 

 Describe the strategic planning process, apply different project selection methods, such as a net present value analysis, a weighted scoring model, and a balanced scorecard, and understand the importance of creating a project charter

 

 Explain the scope planning process and contents of a scope statement

 
  • Discuss the scope definition process and construct a work breakdown structure using the analogy, top-down, bottom-up, and mind mapping approaches

 
  • Understand the importance of scope verification and scope change control to avoid scope creep on information technology projects

 

 Describe how software can assist in project scope management


Module VI - Project Time Management

 
  • Understand the importance of project schedules and good project time management

 

 Describe how project managers use network diagrams and dependencies to assist in activity sequencing

 

 Explain how various tools and techniques help project managers perform activity duration estimating and schedule development

 
  • Use a Gantt chart for schedule planning and tracking schedule information

 

 Describe how to use several techniques for shortening project schedules

 

 Explain the basic concepts behind critical chain scheduling and Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT)
  Discuss how reality checks and people issues are involved in controlling and managing changes to the project schedule
  Describe how software can assist in project time management
  Define activities as the basis for developing project schedules
  Understand and use critical path analysis

Module VII - Project Cost Management

 
  • Understand the importance of good project cost management

 

 Explain basic project cost management principles, concepts, and terms

 

 Describe how resource planning relates directly to project cost management

 

 Explain cost estimating using definitive, budgetary, and rough order of magnitude (ROM) estimates
  Understand the processes involved in cost budgeting and preparing a cost estimate for an information technology project
  Understand the benefits of earned value management and project portfolio management to assist in cost control
  Describe how software can assist in project cost management

Module VIII - Project Quality Management

 
  • Understand the importance of project quality management for information technology products and services

 

 Define project quality management and understand how quality relates to various aspects of information technology projects

 

 Describe quality planning and its relationship to project scope management

 

 Discuss the importance of quality assurance
  List the three outputs of the quality control process
  Understand the tools and techniques for quality control, such as Pareto analysis, statistical sampling, Six Sigma, quality control charts, and testing
  Describe important concepts related to Six Sigma and how it helps organizations improve quality and reduce costs
  Summarize the contributions of noteworthy quality experts to modern quality management
  Understand how the Malcolm Baldrige Award and ISO 9000 standard promote quality in project management
  Describe how leadership, cost, organizational influences, and maturity models relate to improving quality in information technology projects
  Discuss how software can assist in project quality management

Module IX - Project Human Resource Management

 
  • Explain the importance of good human resource management on projects, especially on information technology projects

 
  • Define project human resource management and understand its processes

 

 Summarize key concepts for managing people by understanding the theories of Abraham Maslow, Frederick Herzberg, David McClelland, and Douglas McGregor on motivation, H. J. Thamhain and D. L. Wilemon on influencing workers, and Stephen Covey on how people and teams can become more effective

 

 Discuss organizational planning and be able to create a project organizational chart, responsibility assignment matrix, and resource histogram

 
  • Understand important issues involved in project staff acquisition and explain the concepts of resource assignments, resource loading, and resource leveling

 

 Assist in team development with training, team-building activities, and reward systems
  Assist in team development with training, team-building activities, and reward systems

Module X - Project Communications Management

 
  • Understand the importance of good communication on projects and describe the major components of a communications management plan

 

 Discuss the elements of project communications planning, including information distribution, performance reporting, and administrative closure

 

 Discuss various methods for project information distribution and the advantages and disadvantages of each

 
  • Understand individual communication needs and how to determine the number of communications channels needed for a project

 
  • Understand how the main outputs of performance reporting help stakeholders stay informed about project resources

 
  • Recognize how the main outputs of administrative closure are used to formally end a project
  List various methods for improving project communications, such as managing conflicts, running effective meetings, using e-mail effectively, and using templates
  Describe how software can enhance project communications

Module XI: Project Risk Management

 
    • Understand what risk is and the importance of good project risk management

 

 Discuss the elements involved in risk management planning

 

 List common sources of risks on information technology projects

 
  • Describe the risk identification process and tools and techniques to help identify project risks

 
  • Discuss the qualitative risk analysis process and explain how to calculate risk factors, use probability/impact matrixes, the Top Ten Risk Item Tracking technique, and expert judgment to rank risks

 
  • Explain the quantify risk analysis process and how to use decision trees and simulation to quantitative risks
  Provide examples of using different risk response planning strategies such as risk avoidance, acceptance, transference, and mitigation
  Discuss what is involved in risk monitoring and control
 
  • Describe how software can assist in project risk management
  Explain the results of good project risk management

Module XII:Project Procurement Management

 
    • Understand the importance of project procurement management and the increasing use of outsourcing for information technology projects

 

 Describe the procurement planning process, procurement planning tools and techniques, types of contracts, and statements of work

 

 Discuss what is involved in solicitation planning and the difference between a request for proposal and a request for quote

 
  • Explain what occurs during the solicitation process

 
  • Describe the source selection process and different approaches for evaluating proposals or selecting suppliers

 
  • Discuss the importance of good contract administration
 
  • Describe the contract close-out process
  Discuss types of software available to assist in project procurement managemen


Course Fee:

Module 1 : Rs. 1500.00


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