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Vulnerability Assessment Training: Protecting Your Organization

Vulnerability Assessment Training: Protecting Your Organization

Course 589

Duration: 4 days
Labs: Yes
Language: English
23 CompTIA CEUs
23 NASBA CPE Credits (live, in-class training only)
Level: Intermediate

This Vulnerability Assessment training course teaches you how to minimize costly security breaches and evaluate the risk in your enterprise from an array of vulnerabilities. You will create a network security vulnerability assessment checklist, identifying exposed infrastructure, server, and desktop vulnerabilities. Additionally, you will create and interpret reports, configure vulnerability scanners, detect points of exposure, and ultimately prevent network exploitation.

Vulnerability Assessment Training: Protecting Your Organization Delivery Methods

In-Person
Online

Vulnerability Assessment Training: Protecting Your Organization Course Information

In this course, you will learn how to:

Detect and respond to vulnerabilities, and minimize exposure to security breaches
Employ real-world exploits and evaluate their effect on your systems
Configure vulnerability scanners to identify weaknesses
Analyze the results of vulnerability scans
Establish an efficient strategy for vulnerability management

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have a basic understanding of network security and security issues at the level of

Learning Tree course 468, Information Security Training,

And you should have an understanding of the following:

TCP/IP networking
Network security goals and concerns
The roles of firewalls and intrusion detection systems

Continuing Education Information

This course covers multiple domains on the (ISC)2 CISSP certification exam
If you are interested in achieving the CISSP certification, see CISSP® Training and Certification Prep Course • course 2058

Vulnerability Assessment Course Outline

Module 1: Fundamentals

Introduction

Defining vulnerability, exploit, threat and risk
Creating a vulnerability report
Conducting an initial scan
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE) list

Scanning and exploits

Vulnerability detection methods
Types of scanners
Port scanning and OS fingerprinting
Enumerating targets to test information leakage
Types of exploits: worm, spyware, backdoor, rootkits, Denial of Service (DoS)
Deploying exploit frameworks

Module 2: Analyzing Vulnerabilities and Exploits

Uncovering infrastructure vulnerabilities

Uncovering switch weaknesses
Vulnerabilities in infrastructure support servers
Network management tool attacks

Attacks against analyzers and IDS

Identifying Snort IDS bypass attacks
Corrupting memory and causing Denial of Service

Exposing server vulnerabilities

Scanning servers: assessing vulnerabilities on your network
Uploading rogue scripts and file inclusion
Catching input validation errors
Performing buffer overflow attacks
SQL injection
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) and cookie theft

Revealing desktop vulnerabilities

Scanning for desktop vulnerabilities
Client buffer overflows
Silent downloading: spyware and adware
Identifying design errors

Module 3: Configuring Scanners and Generating Reports

Implementing scanner operations and configuration

Choosing credentials, ports and dangerous tests
Preventing false negatives
Creating custom vulnerability tests
Customizing Nessus scans
Handling false positives

Creating and interpreting reports

Filtering and customizing reports
Interpreting complex reports
Contrasting the results of different scanners

Module 4: Assessing Risks in a Changing Environment

Researching alert information

Using the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) to find relevant vulnerability and patch information
Evaluating and investigating security alerts and advisories
Employing the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

Identifying factors that affect risk

Evaluating the impact of a successful attack
Determining vulnerability frequency
Calculating vulnerability severity
Weighing important risk factors
Performing a risk assessment

Module 5: Managing Vulnerabilities

The vulnerability management cycle

Standardizing scanning with Open Vulnerability Assessment Language (OVAL)
Patch and configuration management
Analyzing the vulnerability management process

Vulnerability controversies

Rewards for vulnerability discovery
Markets for bugs and exploits
Challenge programs

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4-day instructor-led training course
Earn 23 CompTIA CEUs
One-on-one after course instructor coaching

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Take this course and gain unlimited access to more than 300 virtual instructor-led courses
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#589

Guaranteed to Run - you can rest assured that the class will not be cancelled.
Jun 26 - 29 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Herndon, VA or Virtual
Aug 22 - 25 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

New York, NY or Virtual
Oct 3 - 6 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EDT

Ottawa, ON or Virtual
Dec 19 - 22 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

Herndon, VA or Virtual
Feb 20 - 23 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM EST

New York, NY or Virtual

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Course FAQs

The process of defining, identifying, classifying and prioritizing what vulnerabilities are in your system.

This assessment aims to find out what vulnerabilities may be within your system in time to fix them.

A vulnerability assessment scans for known vulnerabilities, while a penetration test tries to exploit and fix the weaknesses actively.

Yes! We know your busy work schedule may prevent you from getting to one of our classrooms which is why we offer convenient online training to meet your needs wherever you want. This course is available in class and live online.

Vulnerability Assessment Training: Protecting Your Organization

Vulnerability Assessment Training: Protecting Your Organization Delivery Methods

Vulnerability Assessment Training: Protecting Your Organization Course Information

Vulnerability Assessment Course Outline

Module 1: Fundamentals

Module 2: Analyzing Vulnerabilities and Exploits

Module 3: Configuring Scanners and Generating Reports

Module 4: Assessing Risks in a Changing Environment

Module 5: Managing Vulnerabilities

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