Audience
Anyone who designs creates maintains and secures a corporate Web site. Webmasters and Web Administrators would be typical audiences for this course. Participants should have knowledge equivalent to the following courses: Networking Foundation series (courses 12754 and 12755); HTML 4.0 (courses 12822 and 12823); Java (courses 12975-77); CGI (course 12776); and TCP/IP (courses 12771-73). In addition participants should have taken the first course in this series Web Site Security: Internet and Intranet Management and Policies (course 85105).
Objective
- Identify the functions operations configuration options vulnerabilities and optional features of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP).
- Perform the steps to generate PGP keys.
- Identify Java security features security issues security mechanisms and applets.
- Perform the steps to set the Java security option in Netscape Communicator 4.6.
- Identify the features of Common Gateway Interface (CGI).
- Identify the strategies of CGI security.
- Identify encryption security techniques.
- Identify the characteristics of virus and nonvirus threats.
- Identify the specific characteristics of the three types of viruses.
- Identify the operations of several common viruses.
Topics Include
Unit 1: Pretty Good Privacy
- Identify the functions of PGP.
- Match the PGP version with its description.
- Identify the vulnerabilities of PGP.
- Match the key management command with its use.
- Perform the steps to generate a PGP key pair using DOS commands.
- Encrypt an e-mail message using PGP.
- Match the advanced PGP operation with its function.
- Match a PGP configuration file variable with its use.
- Identify the benefits of modifying a PGP configuration file.
Unit 2: Java Security Overview
- Identify the features of Java.
- Identify the types of Java risks.
- Identify the functions of Bytecode Verifier.
- Identify the functions of Class Loader.
- Identify the functions of Security Manager.
- Identify the security options in Java Applet Viewer.
- Perform the steps to set Java in Netscape Communicator 4.6.
Unit 3: CGI and Encryption
- Identify the features of CGI.
- Identify the features of Perl.
- Identify the security risks created by CGI scripts.
- Identify the measures used to minimize CGI security risks.
- Identify the features of a CGIWrap application.
- Match the SSI tag with its function.
- Perform the steps to view a digital certificate using Netscape Navigator 4.6.
Unit 4: Viruses
- Match a malicious program with its description.
- Match a virus type with the method used to conceal it.
- Identify the statements that describe a traditional virus.
- Identify the statements that describe a boot sector virus.
- Identify the statements that describe a macro virus.
- Select the operations of a polymorphic virus.
- Identify the operations of a stealth virus.
- Identify the operations of a slow virus.
- Identify the methods that are used by retroviruses to interfere with the operation of anti-virus programs.
Unit 5: Virus Protection and Recovery
- Identify the operations performed by a virus scanner.
- Select the operations of memory scanners.
- Identify the operations of integrity checkers.
- Identify the statements that describe a behavior blocker.
- Identify the statements that describe heuristic scanners.
- Select the strategies used to prevent a virus from infecting a computer.
- Sequence the steps to remove a virus.
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).
The network 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 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
Serebra Learning Corporation 119 - 7565 132nd Street Surrey BC V3W 1K5 Canada