Training and Educational Services
You have the option of receiving the training at a training center or have
LinkGard come to your organization and provide customized training in the
convenience of your offices. We offer specialized training on a large range of
topics within our expertise; however, the following standard training classes
are also available:
- Management:
- Networking:
- Security Response:
- System Administration:
- Programming:
Detailed Course Listing
Information Security Fundamentals for Managers
This course is geared towards senior and mid-level IT staff in governmental
or corporate organizations. It will introduce students to topics such as risk
management, security policies, security life-cycles, and other topics of importance
to management.
Duration: 3 days.
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ISO 17799 - Setting Up Your IT Security Program
This course will help you understand the ISO 17799 standard. It is
designed for management interested in implementing the standard in their organization
or finding out more about the standard.
Duration: 6 days.
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Introduction to Perimeter Protection (Firewalls)
Theory of firewalls, covering the basics. We will go over various
firewall technologies such as: packet filtering, application-layer firewall, stateful
inspection, and VPN.
Duration: 3 days.
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Introduction to Incident Response and Forensics
This hands-on course is geared towards system administrators and
technical staff. This course will cover the essentials of responding to computer
intrusions.
Duration: 3 days.
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Linux Certification Training (LPI)
This course is designed to help system and network administrators
in obtaining certification by the Linux Professional Institute (LPIC1 and
LPIC2).
Duration: 24 days.
Course Outline:
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Week 1:
Introduction to Linux, GNU/UNIX Commands, Devices and Filesystems,
Documentation, and System Administration.
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Week 2:
Installation and Package Management, Installation of Linux, The Boot
Process, Kernel, Printing, The vi Editor, Shell Scripting and Programming,
Networking Services, and Linux Security.
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Week 3:
Advanced Kernel, System Startup, Filesystem, Hardware, File and Service
Sharing, System Customization and Automation, System Maintenance, and
Troubleshooting.
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Week 4:
Networking Configuration, Mail and News, Network Client Management, DNS, Web
Services, System Security, and Network Troubleshooting.
A course similar to this one was delivered in February, 2004. Click
here for more info
"Linux Training".
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Securing Operating Systems
This course is designed for system administrators and security administrators
who wish to familiarize themselves with the security infrastructure of Windows
2000, Windows XP, HP-UX, Solaris, AIX, FreeBSD, or Linux operating system. Participants
have the option of choosing from one of seven operating systems to receive their
training on.
Course Outline: A sample course outline can be found here: Securing UNIX/Linux
Course Outline. All LinkGard Systems training courses can be modified to suit
your specific educational needs.
Duration: 6 days.
Course Outline (for UNIX-based version):
- Day 1: Introduction, UNIX history, security
policies, and overview of standard UNIX security mechanisms.
- Day 2: Authentication mechanisms:
username/password, two-factor authentication, and encryption-based
authentication. Introduction to cryptography.
- Day 3: Forms of attacks: authentication, buffer
overflows/memory, network-based, denial of service. Viruses, trojan horses,
and rootkits.
- Day 4: Administration tools: SSH, network
scanners, vulnerability auditing tools, and monitoring tools.
- Day 5: Protocol security: NFS, NIS, RPC, and NTP.
Application security: Apache, FTP, Sendmail, and DNS. Integrity management.
Backups.
- Day 6: Logging and auditing. Incident response.
Performing forensics on UNIX.
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Secure Programming: Hacking 101
This exciting 2-part course is designed for novice to mid-level programmers.
The first part of the course will go through various good security programming
practices and common security errors. (input validation, buffer overflow, etc.)
The second part of the course will focus on techniques employed by hackers to
crack computer programs. After completing the course programmers will be well
positioned to write better code and avoid common pitfalls.
Duration: 6 days.
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Java Security Training
This 5-day course is designed as introductory course that
graduates into the advanced concepts and features of Java Security. It is
specifically constructed to cover the most relevant and commonly used designs,
techniques and constructs. Each lesson contains at least one handout; relevant
sections contain hands-on labs.
Duration 5 days.
Course outline:
- Day 1: Introduction to Computer and Network
security. Intro to Java Security.
- Day 2: Java 2 Security Architecture. Secure Class
loading.
- Day 3: Creating security policies. Enforcing
security policies.
- Day 4: Object security. Trust coverage.
- Day 5: Cryptography. Network security.
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