Unit 1: Windows 7 & 8 Hardening
This module covers a detailed deep-dive into Windows internal security mechanisms and their practical usage and adjustment.
- Windows Kernel role
- Kernel functionality
- Kernel debugging (useful techniques)
- Kernel security mechanisms and their practical implementation
- Lab: Kernel digging
- Securing operating system objects
- Influencing the security of processes & threads
- User account security (elevation of privileges, permissions, functionality, passwords, hardening)
- Functionality and hardening of rights, permissions, privileges
- Services security
- Registry settings and activity
- Lab: Securing system objects
- Lab: Improving services security
- Lab: Verifying the meaning of rights, permissions and privileges
- Lab: System security bypass techniques and countermeasures
- Modern malware and threats
- Sensitive operating system areas
- Techniques used by modern malware
- Cases of the real attacks on sensitive areas (with the practical examples)
- Protection mechanisms and countermeasures
- Lab: Malware hunting
- Lab: Stuxnet / other malware cases
- Device Drivers
- Types of drivers and their security considerations
- Managing device drivers
- Lab: Monitoring drivers
- Lab: Driver Isolation
- Lab: Signing drivers
- Group Policy Settings
- Useful GPO Settings for hardening
- Customized GPO Templates
- AGPM
- Lab: Advanced GPO features
- Lab: Implementing AGPM
- Practical Cryptography
- EFS
- Deep-dive to BitLocker
- 3rd party solutions
- Lab: Implementing and managing BitLocker
After completing this module, students will be familiar with:
- Threats and their effects
- Points of entry to the client operating system
- Secure configuration of the client operating system
- Security management in the client operating system
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| Unit 2: Windows Server 2008 R2 / Windows Server 8 Hardening
This module focuses on server architecture, security issues and hardening
- Securing Server Features
- Public Key Infrastructures
- Design considerations
- Hardening techniques
- Lab: PKI implementation
- Active Directory
- Design considerations for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 8
- Securing Domain Services
- Schema configuration
- New security features in Windows Server 8
- Lab: Active Directory security in the single domain environment
- Lab: Active Directory security in the multiple domains environment
- Microsoft SQL Server hardening
- Installation considerations
- Configuring crucial security features
- Lab: Hardening Microsoft SQL Server
After completing this module, students will be familiar with:
- Threats for servers and countermeasures
- Points of entry to the server operating system
- Solutions for server security
- Hardening of the Windows related roles
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| Unit 3: Hardening Microsoft Network Roles
This module focuses on hardening and testing network related roles. Very intensive!
- Hardening minor network roles
- DNS Hardening
- Improving DNS functionality
- Hardening and designing DNS Role
- Lab: Hardening DNS role
- Lab: Testing the DNS configuration
- Internet Information Security 7.5 / 8
- Implementing secure web server
- Implementing web site security
- Monitoring security and performance
- Lab: IIS Server Hardening
- Lab: Web site security settings
- Lab: Monitoring IIS under attack
- IPSec
- Implementing IPSec
- Security polices in IPSec
- Lab: Implementing Domain Isolation
- Lab: Network Access Protection with IPSec
- DirectAccess
- Implementation Considerations
- DirectAccess Security and Hardening
- Lab: DirectAccess secure configuration demo
- Remote Access
- VPN Protocols
- RDP Gateway
- Unified Access Gateway
- Network Access Protection
- Lab: Configuring security settings in Network Policy Server
- Lab: Configuring security settings in RDP Gateway
- Lab: Securing UAG Configuration for applications
- Lab: Network Access Protection implementation scenario
- Firewall
- Customizing the rules
- Hardening Client and Server for Rule-Specific scenario
- Lab: Managing Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
After completing this module, students will be familiar with:
- Configuring secure remote access
- Implementing Network Access Protection
- Protocol misusage techniques and prevention actions
- DNS advanced configuration
- Hardening the Windows networking roles and services – in details
- Building the secure web server
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| Unit 4: Windows High Availability
This module covers business continuity support technologies
- Network Load Balancing design considerations and best practices
- iSCSI configuration
- Failover Clustering internals and security
- Lab: Building IIS Cluster with NLB
- Lab: Building the failover cluster
After completing this module, students will be familiar with:
- High Availability technologies
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| Unit 5: Data and Application Security
This module covers solutions that greatly support information and data security
- File Classification Infrastructure
- Designing security for File Server
- Active Directory Rights Management Services
- AppLocker and Software Restriction Policy
- Lab: Building secure solution with FCI and ADRMS
- Lab: Securing and auditing a File Server
- Lab: Restricting access to applications with Applocker and SRP
- Lab: Software Restriction Policy (in) security
After completing this module, students will be familiar with:
- Information and data protection solutions
- Best practices of implementing data security solutions
- Techniques for restricting access to data
- Techniques of avoiding misusage of applications
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| Unit 6: Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Auditing Windows
This module covers all best practices regarding to monitoring, troubleshooting and auditing Windows. It is a prefect module for Windows investigators
- Advanced logging and subscriptions
- Analyzing and troubleshooting the boot process
- Crash dump analysis
- Auditing tools and techniques
- Monitoring tools and techniques
- Professional troubleshooting tools
- Lab: Event logging and subscriptions
- Lab: Monitoring the boot process
- Lab: Blue Screen scenario
After completing this module, students will be familiar with:
- Troubleshooting methodologies
- Collecting data methodologies
- Monitoring Windows after / during the attack and during situation specific events
- Windows forensics
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| Unit 7: Automating Windows hardening
This module focuses on automating the hardening process in Windows. During this module you will be able to apply practical knowledge gained in the previous modules to operates on the infrastructure level
- Powershell Scripting
- Useful tools and best practices
- Advanced Security Configuration Wizard
- Lab: Administering Security with Powershell
- Lab: Playing with hardening tools
- Lab: Adjusting SCW to the special scenario
After completing this module, students will be familiar with:
- Powershell usage in hardening
- Automating Windows hardening
- Tools used to automate configuration changes
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| Unit 8: Organizational Security
This module explains how to deal with the attack case and what security methodologies could be applied in that particular situation. Here you will be discussing the type of the events and actions that should be taken according to each unique situation and conditions it causes
- Considerations for designing secure infrastructure
- Security policy & compliance
- Auditing methodologies
- CERT
- Attack response procedures
- Documentation required for security projects
- Discussion: Procedures after attack
After completing this module, students will be familiar with:
- Organizational security issues
- Security policy best practices
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