General Information

Course Duration: 4 hours

Audience: A wide range of information technology (IT) professionals and business managers, including IT managers, webmasters, system integrators, Internet/intranet/extranet consultants, departmental managers and strategic IT planners

Prerequisites:
Familiarity with the concept of the Internet and e-business

Course Structure

• Security concepts
• Information security fundamentals
• Computing securely
• Security management

• Denial of service
• Threats to data
• Specific Internet threats

• Securing the client
• Securing the application
• The 4A strategy
• Exercise: Selecting countermeasures

• Securing the network
• Securing the web platform
• Secure communications
• Exercise: Identifying Internet components

Course Aim

To provide an overview of the threats to an organization using Internet technologies and to outline policies, procedures and technologies designed to counter these threats.

Learning Objectives

After taking this course, the user should be able to

• explain what an intranet, an extranet and the Internet are
  
  
• explain all the components involved in securing Internet technologies
  
  
• discuss the activities involved in Internet security management