Securing the Cloud with
VMware vSphere
A five-day, hands-on Bootcamp.
This course provides a solid understanding of the various components that make up the vSphere environment. From the virtual CPU to the storage devices attached to your host and everything in and around that network, you will learn about the interconnectivity and design of all those components. You will walk away with a solid understanding of how the adversary infiltrates the virtual environment and most importantly, how you can secure that environment. Target Audience This course is designed for System & Security Administrators responsible for the administration and security of VMware ESX/ESXi virtualization environments. Pre-Requisites Applicants for this program must have completed at least one of the following courses: Virtual Infrastructure 3.5 Ultimate Bootcamp vSphere 4.1 Ultimate Bootcamp VMware vSphereT 4.1 Advanced Administration OR have equivalent knowledge of VMware's ESX/ESXi virtualization environment.
Program Content
Module One: Course Introduction and Methodology Module Two: Penetration Testing 101 What is a Penetration test Penetration Testing Methodologies LAB: Information gathering LAB: Scanning LAB: Enumeration LAB: Tools of the trade Website review LAB: Hashing, Encryption, and Certificates Where do we start with vSphere Module Three:
Primer and Re-affirming our Knowledge What is Virtualization ESX vs ESXi vSphere 4.1 Product Features LAB: Management Interfaces LAB: General Administrative Features LAB: Advanced Administrative Features Module Four: Security Architecture vCPU, vMemory Linux Kernal Architecture LAB: Log Files Security Architecture LAB: Security Roles and Permissions LAB: vCPU vMemory Module Five: Routing and the vNetwork
Networking Components LAB: Physical Switch Configuration LAB: NIC Teaming LAB: VLANs vDS Network I/O Control Cisco Nexus 1000v Network Routing Module Six: vStorage - Architecture and Security Implementations LAB: Virtualized Storage Pluggable Storage Architecture Storage Control vSphere API for Array Integration Fibre Channel LAB: iSCSI Module Seven: Hardening the Virtual Machines Harden the Server Unnecessary Functions LAB: Using Templates LAB:VM Isolation LAB: VM Advanced Settings ZSetInfo Hazard LAB: VMCI LAB: Isolation Tools VMSafe Settings
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