SearchSecurity.com's Intrusion Defense School |
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| 12 Apr 2006 |
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Introductory note from the instructor
Guest instructor Joel Snyder, senior partner of consultancy Opus One, provides a preview of Intrusion Defense School while getting you thinking about your understanding of key concepts.
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Entrance exam
Put your intrusion defense know-how to the test with this ten-question multiple-choice exam.
TAKE THE EXAM
Lesson 1: Perimeter defense
Lesson 2: Content security
- Webcast: Smart tactics for antivirus and antispyware
Length: 25 minutes
AV has become a commodity service with vendors touting value-added features and the ability to protect other parts of the network. This webcast addresses AV and antispyware from an architectural perspective. You'll learn the benefits of standalone products vs. integrated suites, where AV and antispyware should sit on the network and how to approach implementation issues.
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- Article: Antivirus directions and futures
Antivirus is one of the oldest technologies security practitioners have for intrusion defense, and it continues to evolve. This article analyzes AV from an intelligence/technology perspective and offers best practices for simple file-type blocking, and the implementation of heuristic- and reputation-based AV.
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Lesson 3: Unified Threat Management
- Webcast: Understanding Unified Threat Management
Length: 25 minutes
Conversations around intrusion defense are starting to include Unified Threat Management (UTM) – multi-function appliances that feature AV, IDS/IPS, content filtering, etc. Offerings differ, and the benefits of UTM come with a cost. This webcast introduces UTM and explains how to decide if it's right for your enterprise network.
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Lesson 4: The ROI of intrusion defense
- Webcast: Making the business case for intrusion defense
Length: 25 minutes
Is it time to beef up your perimeter defenses? Should you add standalone devices or integrated appliances? Get the answers in this webcast and learn tactics for getting the resources to implement an intrusion defense strategy. You'll also learn how to estimate management costs and get additional benefits out of your intrusion defense technologies.
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Lesson 5: Beyond intrusion defense
- Webcast: Perimeter defense in the era of the perimeterless network
Length: 20 minutes
When it comes to perimeter defense, identifying the network edge is a challenge in itself. This webcast offers insight on defending the enterprise in a perimeterless world, including the issues of a perimeterless network and leading technologies for endpoint security.
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- Article: The future of intrusion defense
This article analyzes intrusion defense technologies and illustrates how the growth of networks with many distributed control points is creating a greater need for technological integration. Learn strategies to prepare for the future and provide interim relief from "black box networks."
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Final exam
Find out how much you learned in Intrusion Defense School and the areas where you need to focus more attention.
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| About the instructor |
Joel Snyder is a senior partner with Opus One, a consulting firm in Tucson, Arizona. He spends most of his time helping people build larger, faster, safer and more reliable networks. He is a frequent contributor to Information Security magazine and the guest instructor for SearchSecurity's highly successful E-mail Security School.
Joel has been working with networks and information security since 1981, when he started consulting on X.25 and public key cryptography, and he's been very busy ever since. He has been a member of the ISO and ITU committees which write network standards, has authored several books and hundreds of articles. He was the conference director for VPNCON, and has advised and trained thousands of people privately and at conferences around the world on networking, security, messaging and VPNs.
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