Network Security Course Course - 6 Weeks - $349.00

This online/live Linux course is designed to provide students with real skills learned on real servers. Students will acquire skills as they study online text with graphics for illustrations as well as when they watch Flash Videos with voice. The skills students have learned are then applied on real servers so that they are involved in real training not just demos. Each student under the supervision of a qualified instructor, will test their skills on each topic.

Each of the skills students will learn will be required on LPI, Red Hat RHCE or Linux + Certifications. Though this is not a certification course the skills learned will help in certification.

This course is designed to give you the necessary skills to administer a network as well as network services needed in small business and home networks and provide skills that will aid in passing certification exams.

Practical Skills Learned + Practiced in Real Situations = Success!

Network Security Course $349.00
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The Network Security Course is designed to provide you with the skills to perform as a administrator of a server or computer. This 6 week course is a real course in that all of the skills will be completed on a real server remotely. Students will log into our servers and perform all skills and tasks on our network so an instructor can work with the student on a one to one basis. Students will have the ability to talk with the instructor on the phone asking questions and working through an evaluation of their work during the week. The student will have 24/7 contact with the instructor via email and will be able to setup a telephone conference any time they need help. Students will work in an environment that allows them to perform the tasks provided in the training on their own like an independent study but they will always have the opportunity to speak with the instructor. Students will be provided with practicals that are a step-by-step interaction with learning.

Now Includes Live Sessions with Shared Screen
Students will have the option to login to the instructor's desktop and watch demonstrations of specific configurations.

Course Includes 5 Modules:

A. Build an IPCop Firewall
B. VPN Connections with IPCop
C. Build a Bridge or Stealth Firewall
D. Network Intrusion Detection
E. iptables Firewall Course Example

1. Monitoring Tools
Students will explore and use a number of network monitoring tools. These tools include: Etherape, bmon, iptraf, Ethereal, Darkstat, gwhois, etc. Each student will have the opportunity to emply these tools on a live network to learn how they work.

2. Rootkits
Rootkits continually become more difficult to detect and eradicate. This module will explore rootkits and students will employ rootkit hunters to learn how they work. chkrootkit, Rootkit Hunter, rkdet and AIDE will be used in the course.

3. Network Auditing
Learn how to audit your log files with Webmin, Logwatch, and Tiger. Not only will students audit logs but they will begin to learn what to look for that denote network intrusion.

4. Firewall
Firewalls are extremely important for any situation. Several firewalls that students will look at will be Smoothwall, IPCop, Guarddog and Webmin. An introduction to iptables will also be provided as well as and introduction to network topology.
iptables Course Features and Outline:
170 Pages of Online Training
6 Quizzes to test your skills
4 Assignments

Topic 1: Introduction to the fundamental concepts of firewall design.
Topic 2: IP Subnetting
Topic 3: Classless Inter-Domain Routing
Topic 4: Hardware
Examine the hardware configuration of a multi-homed host.
Topic 5: Kernel
Learn how to compile a Linux kernel for an iptables based firewall.
Topic 6: Network Configuration
Topic 7: Network Address Translation
Topic 8: Packet Filtering

5. Intrusion Detection Tools
Students will learn how to setup and scan a network with SARA and how to use PSAD. A introduction will be provided for Snort and Honeypots.

6. Scan Networks with nmap
Nmap is an excellent tool for scanning your network servers to verify for open ports and also to determine other valuable information your network should not be giving away. Students will use nmap on a network to understand how to use this tool.

Course Labs:
A course lab will be providedfor each major topic so that students can follow along and perform the exercises each week. Labs are designed to be step by step to encourage success in training. Real training allows you to make mistakes with live consequences on real servers. The Course Practicals will be an invaluable reference for users after the course.

Flash Movies:
Students can watch procedure examples with Flash movies which are provided.

Projects:
Projects are different than practicals as they are one page projects for students to complete based on a scenario provided. One example would be students are give a scenario in creating an rsync project between two servers and the students must write out the cron scripts for instructor evaluation.

Quizzes:
Students are given the opportunity to take quizzes to evaluate their skill development.

Expectations:
Students will need Internet access to perform tasks and should expect to work an average of 10+ hours each week to complete the course. The time spent on learning each task will depend on prior experience. Some experience with Linux and the Command Line would be very helpful in completing the class but not necessary. This course could be completed by new Linux user but they would need to spend more time learning concepts. Students will be able to work on the servers 24/7 during their course.