SANS vLive! Security 401

SANS vLive! allows you to attend SANS courses from the convenience of your home or office.

Simply log in at the scheduled times and join your instructor and classmates in an interactive virtual classroom. Classes typically meet two evenings a week for five or six weeks. No other SANS training format gives you as much time with our top instructors!

SANS vLive! classes are:

    Convenient - Most classes meet two evenings a week over several weeks, minimizing the impact upon your work and personal schedules.
    Engaging - vLive classes are live and interactive, allowing you to ask questions and share experiences with your instructor and classmates.
    Cost-Effective - You can save thousands of dollars on travel costs, making vLive an ideal solution for students with limited training budgets or travel bans.
    Repeatable - vLive classes are recorded and placed in an online archive in case you miss a session or just wish to view the material again at a later date.
    Complete - You will receive the same books and course materials that conference students receive.

Highlights

    Take SANS' Top Courses from SANS' Top Instructors.
    Classes meet online in a virtual classroom.
    No travel expenses or missed days of work.
    Classes meet two evenings a week for several weeks.

Security Essentials Bootcamp Style:
It seems wherever you turn organizations are being broken into and the fundamental question that everyone wants to know is Why? Why do some organizations get broken into and others do not. SEC401 Security Essentials is focused on teaching you the right things that need to be done to keep an organization secure. Organizations are spending millions of dollars on security and are still compromised. The problem is they are doing good things but not the right things. Good things will lay a solid foundation but the right things will stop your organization from being headline news in the Wall Street Journal. SEC401's focus is to teach individuals the essential skills and techniques needed to protect and secure an organization's critical information assets and business systems. We also understand that security is a journey and not a destination. Therefore we will teach you how to build a security roadmap that can scale today and into the future. When you leave our training we promise that you will be given techniques that you can implement today and tomorrow to keep your organization at the cutting edge of cyber security. Most importantly, your organization will be secure.

With the APT (advanced persistent threat) organizations are going to be targeted. Whether the attacker is successful penetrating an organization's network depends on how well they are at the defense. While defending against attacks is an ongoing challenge with new threats emerging all of the time, including the next generation of threats, organizations need to understand what works in cyber security. What has worked and will always work is taking a risk-based approach to cyber defense. Before your organization spends a dollar of its IT budget or allocates any resources or time on anything in the name of cyber security, three questions must be answered:

1. What is the risk?

2. Is it the highest priority risk?

3. Is it the most cost-effective way of reducing the risk?

Security is all about making sure you are focusing on the right areas of defense. By attending SEC401 you will learn the language and underlying theory of computer security. Since all jobs today require an understanding of security, this course will help you understand why security is important and how it applies to your job. In addition, you will gain the essential, up-to-the-minute knowledge and skills required for effective security if you are given the responsibility for securing systems and/or organizations. This course meets both of the key promises SANS makes to our students: (1) You will gain up-to-the-minute knowledge you can put into practice immediately upon returning to work; and, (2) You will be taught by the best security instructors in the industry.

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Sampling of Topics:

    Network fundamentals
    Core security design principles for networks
    Protocol behavior
    Analysis and decoding of packets
    Physical Security
    Information assurance foundations
    Computer security policies
    Contingency and continuity planning
    Password management and access control
    Incident handling
    Offensive and defensive information warfare
    Host-based intrusion detection and prevention
    Network-based intrusion detection and prevention
    Offensive methods of attack
    Firewall and perimeters
    Risk assessment and auditing
    Cryptography
    Steganography
    Wireless security
    Operations security
    Windows and Unix security