Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security Part 1: Security Planning

Course Code NGE72437

Contents

1. Contents
2. Description
3. Audience
4. Prerequisites
5. Objectives
6. Topics Include
7. Duration
8. Minimum Requirements
9. Media

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Description

This is the first course in a five-part series of the Microsoft Windows 2000 Network - Designing Security curriculum which prepares participants for Microsoft Exam 70-220. This course provides participants with an opportunity to learn the Windows 2000 security model and technologies to plan for a secure enterprise network, creating and analyzing a network security plan, planning secure and effective strategies for creating security groups, delegating administration and placing and inheriting security policies.

Audience

This course is intended for System Administrators and System Analysts. Participants should have taken Microsoft Windows 2000: Administration Series (courses 72410 - 72412), Microsoft Windows 2000 Installation, Configuration, & Administration Series (courses 72413 - 72420), and Microsoft Windows 2000 Implementing and Administering a Windows 2000 Network Infrastructure Series (courses 72421 - 72425).

Prerequisites

(Currently no course prerequisite information)

Objective

• Identify the risks and threats against which security should be provided.
• Identify the windows 2000 security model and technologies available to plan a secure enterprise network.
• Create and analyze the network security plan that is based on the business, organizational and technical factors.
• Identify how to plan a secure and effective strategy for creating security groups, delegating administration, and placing and inheriting security policies.

Topics Include

Unit 1: Network Security: An Introduction

• Match various disclosures of data attacks with their descriptions.
• Match various corruptions of data threats with their descriptions.
• Match the various denials of service attacks with their descriptions.
• Identify the potential threats against which the most important resources are to be secured.
• Match the components of the Windows 2000 security model with their functions.
• Match the features of Windows 2000 Active Directory with the threats against which they protect a network in a specified situation.
• Match the authentication protocols with the situations in which they are used.
• Match the Windows 2000 access control features with the situations in which they provide security.
• Match the Windows 2000 encryption technologies with the situations in which they provide security.

Unit 2: Network Security Plan: Analyzing

• Identify the security planning guidelines based on the geographical scope of an organization.
• Identify the security planning guidelines based on the security requirements of internal users.
• Identify the security planning guidelines based on the security requirements of external users.
• Identify the security planning guidelines based on the cost of operations.
• Identify the security planning guidelines to be considered for accommodating the growth plan of an organization.
• Identify the appropriate security plan for a specified business scenario.
• Analyze a specific network security plan on the basis of business factors.
• Identify the network security planning guidelines related to company processes.
• Match organizational structures with their implications on the network security plan.
• Identify the guidelines for a network security plan at various stages of the service and product life cycle.
• Identify the guidelines for the change management plan to ensure network security.
• Identify the most appropriate security plan for a specified organizational setup.
• Evaluate a specific security plan on the basis of organizational factors.
• Match various types of IT management structures with their characteristics.
• Identify the network security planning guidelines related to the technical environment of an organization.
• Identify the most appropriate security plan for a specified technical scenario.
• Identify the impact of a change in a security plan on the existing technical environment in a specified situation.
• Evaluate a specific security plan on the basis of technical factors.

Unit 3: Distributed Security: Planning

• Match various types of security groups with their scopes.
• Identify the default access rights granted to built-in Windows 2000 administrative groups.
• Identify the considerations for assigning memberships to security groups.
• Match security group scopes with the situations in which they are used.
• Design a security group strategy for easy administration and enhanced network performance.
• Identify the guidelines for designing a strategy for the delegation of administration.
• Design a strategy to delegate administrative authority.
• Identify the rules for placing security policies in sites, domains, and OUs.
• Identify the rules for inheriting security policies in sites, domains, and OUs.
• Identify the recommendations for designing Group Policy.

Duration

8

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently, only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

Media

CDROM
Web Based Training