Who should attend: Network managers responsible for planning the future design of security critical networks, or IS managers trying to plan effective ways of deploying the various security technologies. You should be familiar with Internet/Intranet applications and protocols.

What you will learn: A technical overview of site security design and maintenance techniques.

As businesses increasingly rely on the Internet and intranets for day-to-day operation, they may be unwittingly accepting substantial risk of security incidents leading to downtime, loss of business, or embarassment. Firewalls and related technologies can help address the problem, but need to be combined with good site security practices to be truly effective. This course provides a technical overview of security design and maintenance techniques that can help you protect your business in the highly-networked future.

- Implementing security

• Network design for security
• Interconnectivity and security

• Firewalls: What they can and cannot do
• Dial-in and dial-out
• Audit tools and network management
• Web sites

• Building a security certification process
• Building a security maintenance process
• Auditing your network

Marcus J. Ranum is CEO of Network Flight Recorder, Inc. He is the principal author of several major Internet firewall products, including the DEC SEAL, the TIS Gauntlet, and the TIS Internet Firewall Toolkit. Marcus has been managing UNIX systems and network security for over 13 years, including configuring and managing whitehouse.gov. He is a co-author of the Web Security Sourcebook.

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