Overview:

This course is intended for IT professionals who have the technical knowledge and skills required to conceptualize, design and engineer secure solutions across complex enterprise environments. Students should have a minimum of 10 years of experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on, technical security experience.

Duration:  

48 hours

Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have learned to:

• Manage risk in the enterprise
• Integrate computing, communications, and business disciplines in the enterprise
• Use research and analysis to secure the enterprise
• Integrate advanced authentication and authorization techniques
• Implement cryptographic techniques
• Implement security controls for hosts
• Implement security controls for storage
• Analyze network security concepts, components, and architectures, and implement controls
• Implement security controls for applications
• Integrate hosts, storage, networks, and applications in a secure enterprise architecture
• Conduct vulnerability assessments
• Conduct incident and emergency responses

Prerequisites

None, although it is strongly recommended that you have your CompTIA A+, Network+, and Security+ certifications. You should also have a minimum of 10 years of experience, including at least 5 years of hands-on, technical security experience.

Course outlines:

1.      Risk Management

• Summarize business and industry influences and associated security risks
• Compare and contrast security, privacy policies and procedures based on organizational requirements
• Given a scenario, execute risk mitigation strategies and controls
• Analyze risk metric scenarios to secure the enterprise

2.      Enterprise Security Architecture

• Analyze a scenario and integrate network and security components, concepts and architectures to meet security requirements
• Analyze a scenario to integrate security controls for host devices to meet security requirements
• Analyze a scenario to integrate security controls for mobile and small form factor devices to meet security requirements
• Given software vulnerability scenarios, select appropriate security controls

3.      Enterprise Security Operations

• Given a scenario, conduct a security assessment using the appropriate methods
• Analyze a scenario or output, and select the appropriate tool for a security assessment
• Given a scenario, implement incident response and recovery procedures

4.      Technical Integration of Enterprise Security

• Given a scenario, integrate hosts, storage, networks and applications into a secure enterprise architecture
• Given a scenario, integrate cloud and virtualization technologies into a secure enterprise architecture
• Given a scenario, integrate and troubleshoot advanced authentication and authorization technologies to support enterprise security objectives
• Given a scenario, implement cryptographic techniques
• Given a scenario, select the appropriate control to secure communications and collaboration solutions

5.      Research, Development and Collaboration

• Given a scenario, apply research methods to determine industry trends and their impact to the enterprise
• Given a scenario, implement security activities across the technology life cycle
• Explain the importance of interaction across diverse business units to achieve security goals