This hands-on course provides Network Administrators & Security personnel with a thorough understanding of Windows 2000's security architecture, how it can be broken & how to defend it.  To defeat a hacker, you must understand how he operates.  And to ensure your network is secure, you must test it.  In this course you will learn the step by step process that hackers use to assess your network, probe it and hack into it.  You will use commercial software and hacker utilities, provided in our security "toolkit" to break into various Windows based servers & clients at varying levels of security strength.  By understanding this process & knowing how your Windows based clients are exploited, you will be able to test your own network & properly secure it.  The concepts, techniques & tools you master in this class are the keys to securing your Windows based network infrastructure using the most professional & respected methodology in the industry today, the OSSTMM.

Duration: 4 Days

Day 1: Architecture & Techniques
Information Security Overview
2000 Security Architecture
Hacker Methodology
Labs:  Hands-on labs accompany each major topic.

Day 2: Advanced Exploits
Password Attacks
Physical Attacks
Covering Footprints
Sniffing a Network
Man in the Middle Attacks
Taking Control
Trojan Horses
Labs:  Hands-on labs accompany each major topic.

Day 3: Back Office Exploits
Hacking IIS
Terminal Server Issues
Other Exploits
Security Scanners
Labs:  Hands-on labs accompany each major topic.

Day 4: Defense
Defending Servers
Defending Clients
Defending the Network 
Continuity Planning
Incident Response
Checklists
Final Lab
Labs:  Hands-on labs accompany each major topic.

This course is tailor made for network administrators, auditors, consultants & others concerned with securing a Windows based Network Infrastructure.  Windows 2000 competency is required.