Security Solutions for System Engineers

This course will be of interest to system engineers, network designers and security professionals involved in designing security solutions in an enterprise environment.

After you complete this course, you will be able to :

• Recognise modern threats to enterprise business processes
• Recognise modern security controls
• Choose appropriate controls for specific threats and environments
• Apply basic security design guidelines
• Recognise basic customer requirements and environment limitations, and build an optimal solution based on them
• Position Cisco Security products in basic customer scenarios

The Threat Landscape and Goals of Security Engineering

• General Principles
• Physical Attacks
• Network Infrastructure Attacks
• System and Application Attacks
• User Attacks

Overview of Security Controls

• Organizational Controls
• Types of Controls
• Security Engineering Principles
• Distribution of Controls Between Network and Endpoints
• Cryptographic Services
• Authentication and Identity Management
• Network Controls
• System Controls
• Application Controls

Network Infrastructure Protection Solutions

• Overview of Threats, Controls and Specific Customer Requirements
• Architectures and Design Guidelines
• Case Studies

Enterprise Internet Access Solutions

• Overview of Threats, Controls and Specific Customer Requirements
• Architectures and Design Guidelines
• Case Studies

Solutions for Exposed Enterprise Services and Data Centers

• Overview of Threats, Controls and Specific Customer Requirements
• Architectures and Design Guidelines
• Case Studies

Unified Communications Protection Solutions

• Overview of Threats, Controls and Specific Customer Requirements
• Architectures and Design Guidelines
• Case Studies

Secure WAN Solutions

• Overview of Threats, Controls and Specific Customer Requirements
• Architectures and Design Guidelines
• Case Studies

Secure Remote Access Solutions

• Overview of Threats, Controls and Specific Customer Requirements
• Architectures and Design Guidelines
• Case Studies

Enterprise Wireless Security Solutions

• Overview of Threats, Controls and Specific Customer Requirements
• Architectures and Design Guidelines
• Case Studies

Enterprise Security Management Solutions

• Overview of Threats, Controls and Specific Customer Requirements
• Architectures and Design Guidelines
• Case Studies

Appendix 1 : Advanced Unified Communications Security Design Guidelines

Appendix 2: Advanced Wireless Security Design Guidelines

Labs

• Lab 1-1: Demonstration of Modern Threats
• Lab 3-1: Network Infrastructure Protection Technology Demonstration
• Lab 4-1: Internet Access Protection Technology Demonstration
• Lab 5-1: Protection of Enterprise Exposed Services
• Lab 7-1: Demonstration of an On-Demand Fully Meshed IPsec VPN
• Lab 8-1: Secure Remote Access Technology Demonstration