Masterclass: Securing Windows Infrastructure Training

This course is just a great workshop that teaches how to implement securing technologies one at a time. The course covers all aspects of Windows infrastructure security that everybody talks about, but during the course you will learn how to implement them! Our goal is to teach you how to design and implement secure infrastructures based on the reasonable balance between security and comfort with great knowledge of attacker’s possibilities. We really want you to go out from the class with the practical, ready-touse and holistic approach and skills to secure your infrastructure. 

This is a deep dive course on infrastructure services security. It is a must-go for enterprise administrators, security officers and architects. Delivered by one of the best people in the market in the security field – with practical knowledge from tons of successful projects, many years of real-world experience, great teaching skills and no mercy for misconfigurations or insecure solutions.. 

We really want you to leave from the class with practical, ready-to-use knowledge of how to get into the infrastructure. 

This is a deep dive course. It is a must-go for enterprise administrators, security officers and architects. Delivered by one of the best people in the market in the security field – with practical knowledge from tons of successful projects, many years of real-world experience, great teaching skills and no mercy for misconfigurations or insecure solutions! The course has a form of intense workshop and you MUST stay awake just not to miss a thing!

All exercises are based on Windows Server 2016 and 2019, Windows 10 and Kali Linux. This course is based on practical knowledge from tons of successful projects, many years of real-world experience and no mercy for misconfigurations or insecure solutions! 

To attend this training, you should have a good hands-on experience in administering Windows infrastructure. At least 8 years in the field is recommended.

Enterprise administrators, infrastructure architects, security professionals, systems engineers, network administrators, IT professionals, security consultants and other people responsible for implementing network and perimeter security.

Module 1: Designing Secure Windows Infrastructure 

a) Modern attacks and prevention techniques 

b) Malware execution prevention 

c) Enterprise scale security challenges 

Module 2: Securing Windows Platform 

a) Defining and disabling unnecessary services 

b) Implementing secure service accounts 

c) Implementing rights, permissions and privileges 

d) Code signing 

Module 3: Modern Malware 

a) Techniques used by modern malware 

b) Advanced Persistent Threats 

c) Fooling common protection mechanisms 

Module 4: Malware Protection 

a) Malware investigation techniques 

b) Analyzing cases of real malware 

c) Implementing protection mechanisms 

Module 5: Managing Physical Security 

a) Mitigating Offline Access 

b) Implementing and managing BitLocker 

Module 6: Public Key Infrastructure Security 

a) Role and capabilities of the PKI in the infrastructure 

b) Designing PKI architecture overview 

c) PKI security – Best practices 

Module 7: Securing Network Communication 

a) Deploying and managing Windows Firewall – advanced and useful features 

b) Deploying and configuring IPsec 

c) Deploying DNS and DNSSEC 

Module 8: Securing Web Server 

a) Configuring IIS features for security 

b) Working with SSL Certificate Support 

c) Monitoring Web Server resources and performance 

d) Deploying Distributed Denial of Service attack prevention 

e) Deploying Network Load Balancing and Web Farms 

Module 9: Mitigating the identity attacks 

a) Pass-the-Hash attack prevention 

b) LSA protection 

c) Credential Guard