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This course covers installing and configuring operating systems, network services, disaster recovery, and system security. Students will build a miniature corporate network using Windows Server 2008, Windows XP/7, and Ubuntu/CentOS virtual machines. They will install backend servers, validate network functionality from a user perspective, and implement security measures and risk assessments. The course covers security basics, server hardening, auditing, and both Windows and Linux administration topics. Students will complete hands-on lab exercises in server installation, Active Directory, networking, security, and more. Required textbooks address Windows and Linux security and administration.

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This course covers installing and configuring operating systems, network services, disaster recovery, and system security. Students will build a miniature corporate network using Windows Server 2008, Windows XP/7, and Ubuntu/CentOS virtual machines. They will install backend servers, validate network functionality from a user perspective, and implement security measures and risk assessments. The course covers security basics, server hardening, auditing, and both Windows and Linux administration topics. Students will complete hands-on lab exercises in server installation, Active Directory, networking, security, and more. Required textbooks address Windows and Linux security and administration.

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CS 3910 – System Administration and Security

Syllabus

Course Description
This course covers the installation and configuration of mainstream operating systems, important
network services, disaster recovery procedures, and techniques for ensuring the security of the system.

Course Objective
Students will learn and apply basic concepts and methodologies of System Administration and Security
by building from the ground up a miniature corporate network. They will be responsible for installing
backend servers that users would normally require for day to day operations. They will also be
responsible for validating, from a user’s perspective that their network is functional. Lastly, they will
implement security measures into the network and do a risk assessment as to how effective their
security measures are and their fellow students. Students will use Microsoft Windows Server 2008 for
the Active Directories servers, and Microsoft Windows XP and/or 7 for the clients. Also, Ubuntu 10.10
and/or CentOS 5.6 will be used for the networking part of the class. All server and client computers are
Virtual Machines working on a VMware environment.

Windows Portion:

I. Security Basics
Principles of Information Security

II. Securing the Server Itself


Authentication: Proof of identity
Authorization: Limiting System Access and Controlling Using Behavior
Restricting Access to Software; Restricting Software Access to Resources
Controlling Access to Data
EFS Basics

III. Maintenance and Recovery


Maintenance Strategies and Administrative Practices
Basics of Data Backup and Restore

IV. Monitoring and Audit


Auditing
Monitoring and Assessment

Laboratory Exercises:

Part 1. Server Installation and Configuration


Introducing Windows Server 2008
Installing Windows Server 2008
Configuring Windows Server 2008 Basic Settings
Configuring Server roles and services
Managing hard drives and volumes
Part 2. Network Users, Resources, and Special Server Roles
Understanding and configuring Active Directory Domain services
Creating Active Directory groups, Organizational Units, and Sites
Adding client computers and member servers to the domain
Deploying group policy and network access
Working with network shares and the distributed file system

Linux Portion:

I. Introduction to Linux Systems


Booting and Shutting Down processes
Rootly Powers
Controlling Processes
The File System
Adding New Users
Periodic Processes

II. Understanding Configuration Management


Software and Configuration Management

III. Understanding Linux Networking


TCP/IP Networking

IV. Introduction to Networking Technologies (DHCP, DNS, NFS/iSCSI, SMTP, SNMP, LAMP)
Routing
Network Hardware
DNS
The Network File System
Network Management and Debugging

V. Introduction to Firewall/IDS/SSH
Key Certificates, etc.
Understanding Exposure Risk

VI. Securing Linux


Security

VII. Log Auditing and Vulnerability Assessment


Syslog and Log Files

VIII. Windows and Linux Coexisting


Cooperating with Windows

Laboratory Exercises:

Part 1. Linux OS installation


Ubuntu 10.10 installation
CentOS 5.6 installation
Part 2. DMZ setup and SSH server
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Setup
SSH Server Installation
Router Setup

Part 3. Key Certificates, IP Tables


Public Key Installation
Securing the network with IP Tables
Groogle incident

Part 4. DNS
DNS Master and Slave servers
Updating Microsoft DNS server

Textbooks:

Windows Portion:
Windows Server 2003 Security. A Technical Reference. Roberta Bragg. Addisson-Wesley

Linux Portion:
Linux Administration Handbook. Second Edition. Evi Nemeth, Garth Snyder, Trent R. Hein. Prentice Hall

References to be used during the course:

National Security Agency:


http://www.nsa.gov/
NIST, Computer Security Division, Computer Security Resource Center:
http://csrc.nist.gov/
Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation:
http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/
U.S. Department of Homeland Security:
http://www.dhs.gov/
ITU (International Telecommunication Union:
http://www.itu.int/
Internet Society (ISOC):
http://www.isoc.org/
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF):
http://www.ietf.org/
Internet Architecture Board (IAB):
http://www.iab.org/
International Organization for Standardization (ISO):
http://www.iso.org
IEEE Computer Society:
http://www.computer.org
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM):
http://www.acm.org/
USENIX: The Advanced Computing Systems Association:
http://www.usenix.org/

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