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VMware Advanced Security

Duration:

5 Days

Course Overview:

In this 5-day hands-on course, we cover everything students need to know to build skills in this critical and often overlooked aspect of migrating to virtualized environments: setting up security properly. Virtualization technologies are not secure "out of the box," and VMware® is no exception. The VMware course focuses on where vulnerabilities lie and how to reduce attack surfaces in a virtualized environment.

This course goes beyond typical security protocols administrators use to secure their current environments and dives much deeper into actual workings and shortcomings of the VMware environment.

Topics:

Lesson 1: Primer and Reaffirming our Knowledge

  • ESX Networking Components
  • Virtual Ethernet Adapters and How They Work
  • Virtual Switches and How They Work
  • VLANs in VMWare Infrastructure
  • NIC Teaming, Failover Configurations
  • Layer 2 Security Features & File System Structure
  • Managing the Virtual Network with "VirtualCenter"
  • Kernel, Processes, Account, and Groups
  • Linux and UNIX Permissions
  • Trust Relationships, Logs, and Auditing

Lesson 2: Penetration Testing 101

  • What is a Penetration Test and the benefits?
  • What is the Cost of a Hack?
  • Current Issues and the Evolving Threat
  • Pen Testing Methodology, Types of Tests, Website Review
  • Common Management Errors

Lesson 3: Routing and the Security Design of VMware

  • Security of Routing Data
  • How traffic is routed between Virtual Machines on ESX hosts
  • Security Design of the VMware Infrastructure 3 Architecture
  • VMware Infrastructure Architecture and Security Features

Lesson 4: Information Gathering, Scanning, and Enumeration

  • What information does the hacker gather?
  • Methods of Obtaining Information
  • Footprinting Defined, Google Hacking
  • Introduction to Port Scanning & Tools
  • Enumeration Overview

Lesson 5: DMZ Virtualization

  • Virtualized DMZ Networks
  • Three Typical Virtualized DMZ Configurations
  • Best Practices for Achieving a Secure Virtualized DMZ Deployment

Lesson 6: Remote DataStore Security

  • Mask and Zone SAN Resources
  • Fiber Channel, Attacking Fiber Channel
  • Securing iSCSI, iFCP, and FCIP over IP networks

Lesson 7: Penetration Testing and the Tools of the Trade

  • Vulnerabilities in Network Services & Assessment Scanners
  • Windows Password Cracking, Disabling Auditing
  • Alternate Data Streams, Encrypted Tunnels
  • Port Monitoring Software, Rootkits, Metasploit, Fuzzers SaintExploit, Core Impact, Wireshark
  • Penetration Testing Tool Comparison
  • ARP Cache Poisoning, Hash Algorithm

Lesson 8: Hardening your ESX Server

  • Hardening Your ESX Server, ESX, ESXi Best Practices
  • Configuring the ESX/ESXi Host
  • VirtualCenter, Client Components
  • The Basics of SAN Security, Part 1, Increasing Security Concerns
  • Security Domains, Switch-to-Switch Domain
  • Data Integrity and Security
  • Security Management, Part 2
  • Fibre Channel Security Management
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Configuration Management
  • SAN Access, SAN Security Benefits
  • Controller-based Mapping, WWN Privileged Access
  • Redundancy, Management
  • Distributing Malware, Malware Capabilities
  • Netcat
  • Executable Wrappers
  • Avoiding Detection
  • BPMTK
  • What is SQL Injection?
  • Why SQL Injection?
  • Attacking Database Servers

*Content, days, and times vary depending on your location. Please view the outline prior to purchase or contact the local center for more information.