111 Other courses about Network & Security

JAVA TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A comprehensive introduction of the Java language and environment. It is important to note that the course will assume that the delegates are already familiar with the C language as this enables more advanced features of the Java language to be covered in the course. The course will also give an overview of areas related to programming in Java. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the Java architecture. * Write Java applets and applications. * Debug Java programs. * Examine existing code and determine its function. * Use multimedia extensions, the awt, multithreading, exceptions within Java JAVA TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to program in Java. * Prerequisites: Complete C programming * Duration 5 days JAVA TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Review of UNIX fundamentals * What is Java? What Java is, history of Java, reasons for success. The Java Virtual Machine, Bytecodes, getting up and running with Java, Java resources. Simple Java applications. * C features in Java Java data structures, Java flow control, differences from C, arrays, strings and packages. * OO features in Java Java classes and objects, inheritance, overloading, packages. Differences from C++. * Java applets Applications vs. applets, HTML, the applet tag, applet methods, life cycle, testing and debugging. * Multimedia applets Images, sounds, fonts, colours and animation. * Java products The JDK in detail, other development environments. Javabeans and JDBC overviews. * Abstract Window Toolkit JFC and Swing versus AWT. Event handling (JDK 1.1), GUIs, panels, buttons, lists, scrollbars, text areas, frames… * Exception handling and multithreading Handling exceptions. Starting, pausing, stopping threads, producers, consumers, monitoring. * More standard classes Java file I/O, Streams, The system class. The networking model, java.net classes. * Security and Java Types of attack, the security manager, craplets, securing the network. * Integrating legacy code with Java

SERVER LOAD BALANCING COURSE DESCRIPTION This two-day Server Load Balancing course introduces the concepts of SLB from the reasons to implement, through the basics and then onto details studies of load distribution, health checks, layer 7 switching and Global SLB. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain packet paths when implementing SLB. * Recognise the impact of different topologies. * Evaluate SLB load distribution methods. * Describe how load balancers can improve security. * Explain how GSLB works. SERVER LOAD BALANCING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with SLB. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 2 days SERVER LOAD BALANCING COURSE CONTENTS * Introduction Concept, reasons, benefits, alternatives. Other features: Security, Caching. * SLB concepts Architectures, Virtual servers, real servers, Virtual IP address, health checks. DNS load balancing. Packet walk using SLB. * Load balancing 6 modes of bonding and load balancing without SLB. ISP load balancing. Health. Distribution policies: Round Robin, least connections, weighted distributions, response time, other variations. Persistent versus concurrent. * Layer 4 switching L2 SLB, L3 SLB, single arm SLB, DSR, more packet walking, TCP versus UDP, Port numbers. * Layer 7 switching Persistence. Cookie switching, Cookie hashing, Cookie insertion, URL switching, URL Hashing, SSL. * Health checks Layer 3: ARP, ping. Layer 4: SYN, UDP. Layer 7: HTTP GET, Status codes, HTTP keepalives, content verification, SSL. Other application keepalives. What to do after failure and recovery. * Security DOS attack protection, SYN attack protection, Rate limiting: connections, transactions. SSL offload. * Redundancy Hot standby, Active standby, Active active. Stateful, stateless. VRRP, STP. * GSLB Anycasting. DNS, TTL, DNS load balancing, problems with DNS load balancing,. HTTP redirect, health, thresholds, round trip times, location.

IPTV TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A current hot topic in recent years has been the provision of multimedia services over IP networks aka triple or quadruple play. This course investigates the characteristics of video transmission and then studies the impact on IP networks. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Use Wireshark to analyse and troubleshoot TV streams. * Describe techniques, which can be used in IP to provide low uniform delay. * Evaluate IPTV technologies. * Design data networks, which will support IPTV. IPTV TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working with IPTV. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP Foundation for engineers Intro to data communications & networking. * Duration 3 days IPTV TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is IPTV? What is IP? What is TV? Pixels, frames, colour, digital modulation, digital video broadcasting. SDTV, HDTV, 4K. IPTV architectures, Contribution, distribution, delivery. IPTV standards. Hands on Base IP connectivity, VLC. * IPTV protocol stacks IP, TCP, UDP, RTP. IPv6. HTTP. Bandwidth requirements. Hands on IPTV bandwidth calculations. * Video codecs What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing. MPEG, bit rates, resolution. I, B, P frames, GOP. MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1. Hands on Analysing MPEG frames. * IP issues Quality vs. bandwidth. Bandwidth, delay, latency, jitter, signalling. Routers. Hands on Analysing jitter and other performance issues. * IPTV performance and QoS IP DSCP field, queuing strategies; FIFO, WFQ, custom, priority, RED. Differentiated services, Diffserv. 802.1Q. Traffic shaping. QoE. Hands on best effort versus prioritisation. * UDP versus TCP Reliable, unreliable, connection oriented, connectionless. Broadcasts, multicasts and unicasts. TCP flow control, TCP and performance. Hands on TCP window sizes. * RTP RTP, ports, mixers, translators, RTCP, SMPTE, FEC. Hands on RTP analysis with Wireshark. * Multicasting Multicasting compared to unicasting and broadcasting, when to use and when not to use multicasting. IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM. MLD. Hands on Analysing multicast streams. * OTT TV HTTP, HTTPS, Chunked HTTP. Adaptive streaming. HTML5. DASH vs HLS. Hands on Analysing HTTP streams. * Security Firewalls, TLS, DRM, watermarking. Encryption. Geolocation. VPNs. * IPTV architecture and other protocols Content providers, Service providers, delivery networks, home networks. Caching, Service discovery. RTSP. SAP, SDP. DHCP, DNS, NTP Hands on Fixing the network.

IP BROADCAST TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A current hot topic in recent years has been the provision of multimedia services over IP networks aka triple or quadruple play. This course investigates the characteristics of video transmission and then studies the impact on IP networks. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Use Wireshark to analyse and troubleshoot TV streams. * Describe techniques, which can be used in IP to provide low uniform delay. * Evaluate IPTV technologies. * Design data networks, which will support IPTV. IP BROADCAST TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone working in broadcast. * Prerequisites: TCP/IP foundation for engineers * Duration 3 days IP BROADCAST TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is IPTV? What is IP? What is TV? Pixels, frames, colour, digital modulation, digital video broadcasting. SDTV, HDTV, 4K. IPTV architectures, Contribution, distribution, delivery. IPTV standards. Hands on Base IP connectivity, VLC. * IPTV protocol stacks IP, TCP, UDP, RTP. IPv6. HTTP. Bandwidth requirements. Hands on IPTV bandwidth calculations. * Video codecs What is a CODEC, pictures and audio, digitisation, sampling, quantisation, encoding, compressing. MPEG, bit rates, resolution. I, B, P frames, GOP. MPEG 2, MPEG 4, H.264, H.265, VP9, AV1. Hands on Analysing MPEG frames. * IP issues Quality vs. bandwidth. Bandwidth, delay, latency, jitter, signalling. Routers. Hands on Analysing jitter and other performance issues. * IPTV performance and QoS IP DSCP field, queuing strategies; FIFO, WFQ, custom, priority, RED. Differentiated services, Diffserv. 802.1Q. Traffic shaping. QoE. Hands on best effort versus prioritisation. * UDP versus TCP Reliable, unreliable, connection oriented, connectionless. Broadcasts, multicasts and unicasts. TCP flow control, TCP and performance. Hands on TCP window sizes. * RTP RTP, ports, mixers, translators, RTCP, SMPTE, FEC. Hands on RTP analysis with Wireshark. * Multicasting Multicasting compared to unicasting and broadcasting, when to use and when not to use multicasting. IGMP, PIM-SM, SSM. MLD. Hands on Analysing multicast streams. * OTT TV HTTP, HTTPS, Chunked HTTP. Adaptive streaming. HTML5. DASH vs HLS. Hands on Analysing HTTP streams. * Security Firewalls, TLS, DRM, watermarking. Encryption. Geolocation. VPNs. * IPTV architecture and other protocols Content providers, Service providers, delivery networks, home networks. Caching, Service discovery. RTSP. SAP, SDP. DHCP, DNS, NTP

WINDOWS CERTIFICATES TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands-on training course concentrating solely on PKI using Windows certificates. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Explain how PKI works. * Install windows certificates. * Configure windows certificates. * Troubleshoot windows certificates. WINDOWS CERTIFICATES TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical security staff. * Prerequisites: Windows server. * Duration 3 days WINDOWS CERTIFICATES TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * PKI Symmetric encryption, asymmetric encryption, authentication, digital signing, hashing, certificates, Certification Authorities, Root CA, Intermediate CA, policy CA, Issuing CA, Certificate Revocation Lists. Hands on Inspecting a certificate. * Policies and PKI Security policy, certification policy. * CA hierarchy Impact of CAs on Active Directory, CA architecture, number of tiers, issuing CA organisation, CA configuration files. CA security. Hands on CA installation PKI health tool, monitoring. * Certificate revocation When to revoke, OCSP. Hands on Revoking certificates. * Certificate validation Discovery, validation, checks, revocation checking, certificate chains, certification publication. Hands on Event viewer. * Certificate templates Version 1, version 1, default, modifying templates. Hands on Template management. * Roles Criteria roles, CA administrator, Certificate manager, Backup operator, Auditor. Other PKI management roles. * Disaster recovery Backups, recovery. Hands on certutil. * Issuing certificates The certificate enrolment process, enrolment methods, manual enrolment, automatic enrolment. * Trust between organisations Creating Trust, CTLs, common root CA, cross certification, bridge CA. * Web servers and certificates SSL encryption, certificate authentication. Hands on Web servers. * VPN Hands on Certificate deployment for VPN. * WiFi Hands on 802.1X

ORACLE SQL TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION The Oracle SQL course is designed to give delegates practical experience in writing SQL statements and scripts using Oracle SQL. The basic SELECT statement, the use of SQL functions and the basic table and view handling statements are introduced. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Create SQL statements to query database tables. * Use standard aggregate functions and related SELECT statement clauses. * Join Tables. * Use basic subqueries and the set operators. * Use numeric, character and date functions. * Use conversion and other miscellaneous functions. * Use SQL parameters. * Use complex subqueries. * Create and alter tables and views. * Insert, update and delete rows in database tables. * Manage sequences and synonyms. ORACLE SQL TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone who needs to use and understand Oracle SQL to query and update data in an Oracle database. * Prerequisites: None. * Duration 3 days ORACLE SQL TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Retrieving data with the SELECT statement The SELECT statement, The SELECT and FROM clauses, Conditions and the WHERE clause, Other conditional operators, Logical operators, The ORDER BY clause, Column aliases, Arithmetic expressions, Precedence of operators. * Aggregate functions Overview of built In aggregate functions, The GROUP BY clause, The HAVING clause. * Joining tables Overview of table joins, Inner joins, Table aliases, Outer joins, Self joins, ANSI standard joins. * Basic subqueries and set operators Overview of subqueries, Basic subqueries, Set operators, The union, intersect and ,minus operators. * Numeric, character and data functions Function types, Using the table dual to try out functions, Numeric functions, Character functions, String concatenation, Date arithmetic and date functions. * Conversion and miscellaneous functions Conversion functions, The NVL and NVL2 functions, The DECODE function, CASE expressions, The COALESCE and NULLIF functions. * SQL parameters Command line substitution parameters, The accept command, The define and undefine commands. * Complex subqueries Subqueries usage, In-line views, Top-N queries, Subqueries with joins, Multi column subqueries, Correlated subqueries, Subquery rules, Using the ANY, ALL and SOME operators. * Managing data Inserting rows, Updating rows, Deleting rows, Verifying updates, Transaction control, Commit and rollback, Savepoints, Commits and constraints, Amending data in SQL developer. * Managing tables Creating tables, Specifying constraints, Altering tables, columns and constraints, Dropping tables, columns and constraints, Recovering dropped tables, Copying tables. * Managing indexes and views Creating indexes, Dropping indexes, Listing indexes, Creating and using views, Dropping views, Listing views. * Managing sequences and synonyms Create a sequence, View sequence details, Create a synonym, List synonyms.

COMPLETE C PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands-on introduction to programming in the ANSI C programming language. The course initially moves at a fast pace in order to spend as much time as possible on the subject of pointers - the area which cause the most bugs in C programs. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Write ANSI C programs * Use the C libraries * Debug C programs * Examine existing code and determine its function. COMPLETE C PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Programmers wishing to learn C. Programmers wishing to learn C++ or Java. * Prerequisites: None, although experience in another high level language would be useful. * Duration 5 days COMPLETE C PROGRAMMING TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * Getting started The compilation process, comments, main(), statement blocks, printf(). * C data types and operators char, int, float and double, qualifiers, arithmetic and assignment operators, precedence, Associativity. * Basic I/O C libraries, stdin and stdout, getchar(), putchar(), printf() formatting. * Flow control if else, dangling elses, else if, while and for loops. switch statements, the null statement, break, continue and gotos. * Functions Function calls, arguments and return types, function declarations (prototypes), function definitions, scope of variables. * The preprocessor Preprocessor actions, macros, #include. Libraries and their relationship with header files. Conditional compilation. * More data types and operators Logical, bitwise and other operators, type conversion, casting, typedefs and access modifiers. * Arrays Declaring and handling arrays, common gotchas, multidimensional arrays. * Pointers What are pointers? Why they are so important, declaring and using pointers,The three uses of the *,pointer example - scanf, pointers as arguments. * More pointers Golden rules of pointers and arrays, pointers to arrays, pointer arithmetic, arrays of pointers, multiple indirection. * Character/string manipulation Arrays of characters, string definition, working with strings, String library. * Program arguments argc and argv, example uses,char *argv[] versus char ** argv. * Program structure and storage classes Globals (externals), multi source programs, the look of a C program. * Structures Declaration, the . and - operators, unions and bitfields. * Library functions File handling, fopen and fclose, reading from and writing to files, fseek().calloc() and malloc()

ETHERNET LANS TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION THIS COURSE HAS BEEN REPLACED AS PART OF OUR CONTINUOUS CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT. PLEASE SEE OUR * Definitive Ethernet switching course WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe what Ethernet is and how it works. * Install Ethernet networks * Troubleshoot Ethernet networks * Analyse Ethernet packets * Design Ethernet networks * Recognise the uses of Hubs, Bridges, switches and routers. ETHERNET LANS TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Those wishing to find out more about how their LAN works. * Prerequisites: Intro to Data comms & networking. * Duration 3 days ETHERNET LANS TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * What is Ethernet? LANS, What is Ethernet?, history, standards, the OSI reference model, how Ethernet works, CSMA/CD. Ethernet Cabling UTP, cat 3,4,5, Cat 5e, Cat 6, Cat 7, fibre optic cable, MMF, SMF. Hands on Making a cable. * 802.3 physical specifications Distance limitations, hubs and repeaters, 5-4-3-2-1 rule, 10BaseT, 10BaseF, 100BaseTX, 100BaseFX, 1000BaseSX, 1000BaseT, 10gbe. Hands on Working with hubs. * Ethernet layer 2 Overview, NICS, device drivers, MAC addresses, broadcasts, multicasts, frame formats, Ether II, 802.3, 802.2, SNAP, compatibility, Ethernet type numbers, Ethernet multicast addresses, Ethernet vendor codes. Hands on Installing Ethernet components, analysing MAC headers. * IP and Ethernet ARP Hands on Analysing ARP packets. * Ethernet extensions Full/half duplex, auto negotiation, flow control methods, 802.3ad, 802.3af, 802.3ah. Hands on Configuration of full/half duplex. * Ethernet speed enhancements Encoding, Carrier extension, packet bursting, jumbo frames. * Prioritisation 802.1P, 802.1Q, TOS, WRR, QOS, VLANs. Hands on 802.1p testing * Interconnecting LANS Broadcast domains, Collision domains, What are bridges, transparent bridging, What are switches? STP, VLANS, What are routers? Layer 3 switches, Connecting Ethernet to the WAN. Hands on STP, Analysing Ethernet frames in a routed architecture. * Troubleshooting and maintaining Ethernet Utilisation, performance, TDR and other testers, bottlenecks, statistics, RMON. Hands on Monitoring performance, troubleshooting tools.

OPENSTACK FOR NFV AND SDN COURSE DESCRIPTION OpenStack is predominately a cloud management technology. This course looks at how OpenStack can be used in a NFV and SDN environment. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Describe the architecture of NFV. * Explain the relationship between NFV and SDN. * Implement NFV VIM using OpenStack. * Explain how OpenStack as VNFM and orchestrator works. OPENSTACK FOR NFV AND SDN COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Anyone wishing to implement NFV using OpenStack. * Prerequisites: Introduction to Virtualization * Duration 3 day OPENSTACK FOR NFV AND SDN COURSE CONTENT * What is NFV? * What is NFV? What are network Functions? NFV benefits, NFV market drivers. ETSI NFV framework. ETSI documents, Architecture overview, compute domain, hypervisor domain, infrastructure network domain. * What is OpenStack? Virtual machines, clouds, management. OpenStack architecture, OpenStack modules. Why OpenStack for NFV? Hands on OpenStack installation. * OpenStack Virtualization and NFV Server, storage and network virtualization and NFV. Where OpenStack fits in the ETSI framework. Virtual machines, containers and docker. Data centres, clouds, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS. Hands on OpenStack Iaas, OpenStack Nova. * The virtualization layer VM centric model, containers versus hypervisors, FD.io. Hands on OpenStack as the VIM. * OpenStack Neutron VXLAN, Networks, subnets, ports. Security groups. Routers. Service and component hierarchy. Hands on Implementing a virtual network with OpenStack Neutron. Virtualization of Network Functions Network virtualization versus Network Function virtualization. * NFV MANO Management and Orchestration. Where OpenStack fits. MANO descriptors, Open orchestration. OpenStack Tacker, Open MANO, OpenBaton, other orchestrators. * OpenStack Tacker Installation, getting started, configuration. SFC and OpenStack. Hands on Deploying a VNF. * OPNFV What is OPNFV, Where OpenStack fits into OPNFV. * SDN What is SDN? Control and data planes. SDN controllers. Classic SDN versus real SDN. Hybrid SDN, network automation, SDN with overlays. Northbound, southbound, SDN protocols, OpenFlow, OpenDaylight, ONOS, SDN with NFV. SDN and OpenStack. * Summary Deploying NFV, performance, testing. Futures

CWSP TRAINING COURSE DESCRIPTION A hands-on training course concentrating solely on WiFi security with an emphasis on the delegates learning the necessary knowledge and skills to pass the CWSP exam. The course progresses from simple authentication, encryption and key management onto in depth coverage of 802.X and EAP along with many other security solutions such as access control, intrusion prevention and secure roaming. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN * Demonstrate the threats to WiFi networks. * Secure WiFi networks. * Configure: WPA2 RADIUS 802.1x EAP * Pass the CWSP exam. CWSP TRAINING COURSE DETAILS * Who will benefit: Technical network staff. Technical security staff. * Prerequisites: Certified Wireless Network Associate. * Duration 5 days CWSP TRAINING COURSE CONTENTS * WLAN Security overview Standards, security basics, AAA, 802.11 security history. Hands on WLAN connectivity. * Legacy 802.11 security Authentication: Open system, shared key. WEP. VPNs. MAC filters. SSID segmentation, SSID cloaking. Hands on Analysing 802.11 frame exchanges, viewing hidden SSIDs. * Encryption Basics, AES, TKIP, CCMP, WPA, WPA2. Hands on Decrypting 802.11 data frames. * 802.11 layer 2 authentication 802.1X: Supplicant, Authenticator, Authentication server. Credentials. Legacy authentication. EAP, Weak EAP protocols, Strong EAP protocols: EAP -PEAP, EAP-TTLS, EAP-TLS, EAP-FAST. Hands on Analysing 802.1X/EAP frames. * 802.11 layer 2 dynamic key generation Robust Security Network. Hands on Authentication and key management. * SOHO 802.11 security WPA/WPA2 personal, Preshared Keys, WiFi Protected Setup (WPS). Hands on PSK mapping. * WLAN security infrastructure DS, Autonomous APs, WLAN controllers, split MAC, mesh, bridging, location based access control. Resilience. Wireless network management system. RADIUS/LDAP servers, PKI, RBAC. Hands on 802.1X/EAP configuration. RADIUS configuration. * 802.11 Fast secure roaming History, RSNA, OKC, Fast BSS transition, 802.11k. Hands on Roaming. * Wireless security risks Rogue devices, rogue prevention. Eavesdropping, DOS attacks. Public access and hotspots. Hands on Backtrack. * WiFi security auditing Layer 1 audit, layer 2 audit, pen testing. WLAN security auditing tools. * WiFi security monitoring Wireless Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems. Device classification, WIDS/WIPS analysis. Monitoring. 802.11w. Hands on Laptop spectrum analysers. * VPNs, remote access, guest access Role of VPNs in 802.11, remote access, hotspots, captive portal. * Wireless security policies General policy, functional policy, recommendations.