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Security Assessment and Audit


Duration: 2 - 3 days

This class offers a technical perspective and exposure to various audit and assessment tools and products to match the best in the industry,
the primary objective being to equip participants with the skills necessary to independently conduct assessments and audits of systems/networks.

This course is designed and developed with following objectives for security professionals
  • Briefing about security issues and concerns
  • Understanding security requirements
  • Gaining knowledge of assessment and audit methods
  • Performing large scale network assessments
  • Footprinting, enumerating and attacking systems
  • Vulnerability and exploit understanding
  • Web, routers, firewall assessments
  • Database hacking
  • Reporting and best practices

Target Audience

  • Security consultants & professionals
  • Security administrators
  • Auditors
  • Whoever wants to get into network security! Great for beginners who want to understand security in action.
Prerequisites
  • Basic familiarity with Windows & Unix systems
  • Primary understanding of networks

 

Course Outline

Schedule : Day 1

Module 1 Security Fundamentals and Principles
  • Security industry landscape and trends
  • Security posture and evolution
  • Corporate security objectives
  • Threat framework and modeling
  • Attack vectors and their impact
  • Popular attack points and severities
  • Q & A
  • Module 2 Assessment and Audit - approaches & methods
  • Assessment methodologies and basics
  • Goals and objectives of assessment
  • Role of tools and credibility
  • Areas of assessment & importance
  • Audit basics and objective
  • Compliance and standards
  • Q & A
  • Module 3 Network Assessment - Footprinting & Asset Identifications
  • Footprinting basics & objectives
  • Methodologies and approaches
  • Public domain queries
  • WHOIS - Query all
  • ARIS lookups
  • DNS queries & Zone transfers
  • Trace routing and mapping
  • Network reconnaissance
  • Windows footprinting
  • Reporting and building targets
  • Lab
  • Module 4 Discovery & Posture Mapping
  • TCP fundamentals
  • Ping sweeps
  • Scanning networks (TCP & UDP)
  • OS identification and Stack fingerprinting
  • Banner grabbing
  • Protocol identification
  • Network mapping
  • Reporting and mapping targets
  • Lab
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    Schedule : Day 2

    Module 5 Information gathering & Enumeration - Windows
  • Windows security overview
  • Enumerating fundamentals
  • Security issues with enumeration
  • Windows enumeration - NetBios over TCP
  • DNS enumeration
  • SNMP querying
  • LDAP enumeration
  • Lab
  • Module 6 Information gathering & Enumeration - Linux/Unix
  • Linux/Unix security overview
  • Linux/Unix systems enumeration basics
  • NFS enumeration
  • RPC querying
  • snmpwalk and enumeration
  • Users and groups enumeration
  • SAMBA information-gathering
  • finger, rwho, rusers
  • Lab
  • Module 7 Attacks & Hacking
  • Password guessing
  • Password cracking
  • Password sniffing
  • Privilege escalation
  • Netcat shell introduction
  • Other attack vectors
  • Lab
  • Module 8 Vulnerability Assessment & Exploitation
  • Vulnerability basics
  • Detecting vulnerabilities
  • Vulnerability scanning using nessus & other tools
  • Crafting exploits
  • Exploit frameworks - Metasploit
  • Countermeasures & Security
  • Lab
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    Schedule : Day 3

    Module 9 Web Hacking
  • HTTP protocol basics
  • Web application components
  • Web server assessment
  • Web application profiling
  • Web application hacking
  • Defending web applications
  • Tools and methods
  • Lab
  • Module 10 Hacking Network Devices
  • Network mapping and entry points
  • Router identification
  • Compromising routers
  • Firewall identification
  • Firewall banner grabbing
  • Firewall loop holes
  • Compromising ACLs
  • VPN and other devices
  • Lab
  • Module 11 SQL Hacking
  • SQL identification
  • SQL banner grabbing
  • MS-SQL cracking
  • MS-SQL hacking
  • ORACLE cracking
  • Security issues with ORACLE
  • Tools and methods
  • Lab

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