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Vulnerability Assessment: Protecting Your Organisation
Exposing Network Weaknesses

Course: 589   Type: Hands-On   Duration: 4 Days
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You Will Learn How To

  • Detect and respond to vulnerabilities that put your organization at risk using scanners
  • Employ real-world exploits and evaluate their effect on your systems
  • Configure vulnerability scanners
  • Analyze the results of vulnerability scans
  • Assess vulnerability alerts and advisories
  • Establish a strategy for vulnerability management

Course Benefits
Knowledge of vulnerability assessment and hacking techniques allows you to detect vulnerabilities before your networks are attacked. In this course, you learn to configure and use vulnerability scanners to detect weaknesses and prevent network exploitation. You acquire the knowledge to assess the risk to your enterprise from an array of vulnerabilities and to minimize your exposure to costly security breaches.

Who Should Attend
Security auditors, firewall/IDS personnel, PCI security testers, network managers and others involved in securing enterprise systems. Experience with network security at the level of Course 468, "System and Network Security Introduction", is assumed. A working knowledge of TCP/IP is also assumed.

Hands-on Training
Exercises provide you with practical experience assessing vulnerabilities and include:
  • Configuring scanners
  • Port scanning and enumeration
  • Scanning infrastructure, servers and desktops
  • Exploiting browsers, IDS, SQL and buffer overflows
  • Investigating and preventing spyware
  • Creating custom vulnerability tests
  • Performing a risk assessment
  • Interpreting scanning reports
  • Identifying false positives and negatives
  • Comparing scanner results

Course Content
Fundamentals
Introduction
  • Defining vulnerability, exploit, threat and risk
  • Identifying the goals of assessments
  • Creating a vulnerability report
  • Conducting an initial scan
  • Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) list
Scanning and exploits
  • Vulnerability detection methods
  • Types of scanners
  • Port scanning and OS fingerprinting
  • Enumerating targets to test information leakage
  • Types of exploits: worm, spyware, backdoor, rootkits, Denial of Service (DoS)
  • Deploying exploit frameworks
Analyzing Vulnerabilities and Exploits
Uncovering infrastructure vulnerabilities
  • Scanning the infrastructure
  • Uncovering switch weaknesses
  • Vulnerabilities in Ethereal and Wireshark
  • Network management tool attacks
Attacks against firewalls and IDS
  • Firewall weaknesses
  • Identifying the Snort IDS buffer overflow
  • Corrupting memory with format string errors
Exposing server vulnerabilities
  • Scanning servers: assessing vulnerabilities on your network
  • Canonicalization and privilege escalation
  • Catching input validation errors
  • Performing buffer overflow attacks
  • SQL injection
  • Cross-site scripting (XSS) and cookie theft
Revealing desktop vulnerabilities
  • Scanning for desktop vulnerabilities
  • Client buffer overflows
  • Silent downloading: spyware and adware
  • Attacking cross-application vulnerabilities
  • Identifying browser plug-in weaknesses
Configuring Scanners and Generating Reports
Implementing scanner operations and configuration
  • Choosing credentials, ports and dangerous tests
  • Identifying dependencies
  • Preventing false negatives
  • Creating custom vulnerability tests
  • Fixing Nessus scans
  • Handling false positives
Creating and interpreting reports
  • Filtering and customizing reports
  • Interpreting differential reports
  • Contrasting the results of different scanners
  • Producing a differential report
Assessing Risks in a Changing Environment
Researching alert information
  • Using the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to find relevant vulnerability and patch information
  • Evaluating and investigating security alerts and advisories
  • Determining vulnerability severity
  • Employing the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)
Identifying factors that affect risk
  • Evaluating the impact of a successful attack
  • Calculating vulnerability severity
  • Weighing important risk factors
  • Performing a risk assessment
Managing Vulnerabilities
The vulnerability management cycle
  • Applying a vulnerability process
  • Standardizing scanning with Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL)
  • Patch and configuration management
Vulnerability controversies
  • Rewards for vulnerability discovery
  • Bounties on hackers
  • Legal issues and disclosure
  

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Vulnerability Assessment
Course Schedule
1 - 4 Jul, 2008
London
19 - 22 Aug, 2008
Edinburgh
23 - 26 Sep, 2008
London
16 - 19 Dec, 2008
London
27 - 30 Jan, 2009
Edinburgh
10 - 13 Mar, 2009
London

Course participants scanning networks for vulnerabilities.

£ 1,695 - Standard Tuition
Savings Plans
£ 1,080 - 10-Day Training Pass
£ 995 - Flex-Training Passport
£ 1,215 - 10-Training Vouchers
£ 1,300 - 5-Training Vouchers
£ 1,525 - Alumni Gold Tuition

 
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