Personalising Security on the Solaris Operating System

QA Ltd.
Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Exeter, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Slough, United Kingdom

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Course Description:

'' The Personalizing Security on the Solaris 10 Operating System course provides students with the knowledge and skills to customize security on Solaris 10 operating systems.

Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are security, system, and network administrators who are responsible for customizing security on Solaris 10 systems.

Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

Administer users, packages, and applications on Solaris 10 systems
Administer networking and routing on Solaris 10 systems
Describe basic system and network security concepts
Administer services and zones on Solaris 10 systems
Delegates will learn how to
Install, configure, and adminster systems installed with the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and understand the following
Solaris 10 OS security concepts:
Principles and features
Installing systems securely
Principle of Least Privilege
File integrity and privacy
Application and network security
Auditing and zone security
Course outline


Module 1 �Describing Basic Security Principles

Describe the need for a security policy
Describe the need to securely configure systems
Describe hardening systems
Describe minimized systems
Describe appropriate system configuration
Describe the need for auditing
Describe logging to meet legislative compliance
Module 2 �Listing Applicable Solaris 10 Security Features

Describe these new features included in the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS):
The device policy
Kerberos-enabled applications, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), and interoperability enhancements
Process rights management
Solaris Containers
User rights management (Role Based Access Control)
Password strength, syntax checking, history, and aging improvements
Basic Audit and Report Tool (BART) for file integrity
IPfilter stateful packet filtering firewall
Solaris Secure Shell
IPsec/Internet Key Exchange (IKE) performance enhancements
Solaris auditing
Trusted Extensions
SSL encryption with PKCS#11 interface and OpenSSL
PAM improvements
MD5 hash functions built into the Solaris OS
Module 3 �Describing Minimization

Describe a minimal installation
Describe software installation clusters (metaclusters)
Examine loose compared to strict minimization
Provide consistent, known configuration for installations
Module 4 �Managing Patches

Describe the Solaris 10 Update Manager
Describe signed patches
Understand how to verify signatures for a signed patches
Specify a web proxy when installing a signed patch
Module 5 �Performing Hardening

Understand what is involved when performing system hardening
Use the Solaris Security Toolkit (SST)
Understand the software component of SST
Use SST for system hardening
Use SST for system security audits
Module 6 �Implementing Process Rights Management

Describe process rights management
Describe process privileges
Understand how to determine rights required by processes
Understand how to debug privileges
Assign minimum rights to a process
Module 7 �Implementing User Rights Management

Describe access controls
Understand and use Role Based Access Control
Explain what is meant by a rights profile
Understand and use a role
Explain authorizations and privileges in RBAC
Configure and use password history
Configure password selection constraints
Understand how to use strong cryptographic algorithms for passwords
Module 8 �Utilizing the Solaris Cryptographic Framework

Describe the role of the Solaris Cryptographic Framework
Administer and maintain the Solaris Cryptographic Framework
Explain and use the digest(1), mac(1), encrypt(1), and decrypt(1) commands
Manage the Solaris Cryptographic Framework environment
Describe how the Solaris Cryptographic Framework can be used with Java applications, web servers, and the Sun Crypto accelerator cards
Module 9 �Managing File system Security

Use the elfsign(1) command to verify Solaris 10 OS Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) objects
Describe and use the Basic Audit and Report Tool
Describe secure execution
Module 10 �Using the Service Management Facility

Describe the Service Management Facility
Describe the concept of least privilege
Describe authorization
Limit a service’s privileges
Examine a service’s current privileges
Module 11 �Securing Networks

Describe network access controls
Describe TCP Wrappers in the Solaris 10 OS
Implement the Solaris IP Filter Stateful Packet Filtering Firewall
Describe Kerberos security
Understand and use Solaris Secure Shell
Describe the security features of NFSv4
Module 12 �Implementing IPsec

Describe IP Security (IPsec) and the Internet Key Exchange (IKE) protocols
Describe the various ways IPsec can be configured
Describe two ways to configure IKE
Describe methods used for troubleshooting IPsec and IKE configurations
Module 13 �Performing Auditing and Logging

Describe Solaris auditing
Configure an audit policy
Implement Solaris auditing
Configure auditing on a system implementing Solaris zones
Access the audit data from the audit trail
Describe how the audit records can be used
Protect audit information on a system or in the enterprise
Module 14 �Implementing Security in Solaris Zones

Describe security characteristics of a Solaris system with zones installed
Understand the differences between the subjects already covered and how they apply to the Solaris operating system with zones installed
Describe the global zone
Explain when and how to use zones
Describe resource management in a zone
Address zones and network security
Understand patching zones
Module 15 �How Security Components Work Together

Describe how security components work together
Describe how technologies interact
Describe infrastructure requirements ...''

Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

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