Course Summary

The 2.4 version of the Linux kernel, with its extended network address translation and new stateful inspection capabilities have accelerated interest in, and adoption of, Red Hat Linux as an enterprise-ready firewall solution. Red Hat's RHCE curriculum provides an introduction to these capabilities.

Course Schedule:

Located outside our service areas? No problem. We also offer this course in the Live Online format. If you prefer face-to-face interaction, we offer hotel/airfare packages that are extremely inexpensive. Quite often, we bundle the hotel stay into the cost of the class for no extra charge.

RHS342 Developing Red Hat Firewall Solutions Description

Audience:

Network administrators, system administrators, consultants, and other IT professionals will benefit from the subjects covered in this course.

Prerequisites:

• RH253, RH300, or RHCE certification or equivalent work experience is required for this course
• Course participants should already know the essential elements of how to configure the services covered, as this course will be focusing on more advanced topics from the outset.
• RHS333 or a strong background in cryptographic technologies is also required.

Price:

$2,598

Training Units (TUs):

10 TUs

Duration:

5 days
Training Start Time: 9:00 a.m.
Training End Time: 4:30-5:00PM (depending on class progress)

What you will learn:

RHS342 builds on these skills and introduces new ones that will provide course participants with a more comprehensive understanding of firewalls, penetration, and intrusion detection using Red Hat Linux and other open source tools. The topics covered in this four-day class include the following:

• Firewalling
  • Firewalling Concepts
  • Packetfilter (stateful)
  • Application Level Gateways
  • Firewall Architectures
  • Screening Router
  • Dual-homed Host
  • DMZ
  • VPN
  • Implementing a Firewall using RHEL
  • Stateful Firewalls using Red Hat Enterprise Linux and iptables
  • Application-level Gateways using Squid and Postfix
  • Firewall testing
  • Testing the firewall using nmap
  • Local Security
  • Filesystem Security
  • Auditing the system using Logwatch and Third Party tools
• VPN
  • VPN concepts and protocols
  • CiPE
  • IPSec
• Implementing a VPN using CiPE
• Implementing a VPN using IPSec
  • Manual keyed connections using setkey
  • Automatic keyed connections using racoon
  • Using preshared keys for authentication
  • Using X.509 certificates for authentication
  • Administering connections using redhat-config-network
• Implementing VPNs using RHEL in heterogenuous networks
  • Connecting to Windows 2000