2150 Designing a Security-Enhanced Microsoft Windows 2000 Network

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to design a security framework for small, medium, and enterprise networks by using Microsoft Windows 2000 technologies. This course contains four units that describe how to help protect specific areas of the network:

Identify the security risks associated with managing resource access and data flow on the network.

Describe how key technologies within Windows 2000 are used to help protect a network and its resources.

Plan a Windows 2000 administrative structure so that permissions are granted only to appropriate users.

Plan an Active Directory directory service structure that facilitates security-enhanced and verifiable user account creation and administration.

Define minimum security requirements for Windows 2000-based domain controllers, application servers, file and print servers, and workstations.

Design a strategy for to help protect local storage of data and provide security-enhanced network access to file and print resources.

Design end-to-end security for the transmission of data between hosts on the network.

Design a strategy to help provide security-enhanced access for non-Microsoft clients within a Windows 2000-based network.

Design a strategy to help protect local resources accessed by remote users who use dial-up or virtual private network (VPN) technologies.

Design a strategy to help protect local resources accessed by remote offices within a wide area network (WAN) environment.

Help protect private network resources from public network users.

Design a strategy to help protect private network user access to public networks.

Design a strategy for authenticating trusted users over public networks.

Design a strategy to help protect data and application access for the private network when accessed by trusted partners.

Plan for an e-commerce implementation between your organization and external business partners that facilitates business communication.

Design a structured methodology for securing a Windows 2000 network.

The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises are in English. To benefit fully from the instruction, students need an understanding of the English language and completion of the prerequisites.