HP ProCurve Security v4.31

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The purpose of this course is to provide systems engineers with the knowledge and skills to design, deploy and support secure networks. This course covers both infrasture device management security and user-based network access security.

• HP Channel System Engineers/Network Engineers

To derive the greatest benefit from this course, students should have completed:

• Routing Switch Essentials course

Upon completion of this course, the student should be able to:

• List the currently available ProCurve products and describe their basic security features
• Identify potential security issues is a ProCurve networking environment
• Outline the layered security approach as it applies to ProCurve environments
• List the different methods for securing ProCurve devices when performing management
• List the basic requirements for physically securing ProCurve products
• Configure local security on ProCurve switches
• Secure a ProCurve switch using Authorized Managers
• Describe the effective use of a Management VLAN
• Implement a Management VLAN
• List the benefits and costs of local security
• List the benefits and costs of deploying authorized managers
• List the benefits and costs of deploying a management VLAN
• Compare and contrast between a TACACS+ and a RADIUS authentication server deployment in a ProCurve environment
• Install and configure Internet Authentication Services on Windows 2000
• Implement RADIUS authentication for ProCurve management
• Use the aaa authentication command to configure TACACS+ or RADIUS authentication
• Troubleshoot a RADIUS authentication in a ProCurve environment
• List the benefits and costs of deploying RADIUS authentication
• Compare SNMPv3 to SNMP v1/v2
• Enable SNMP v3 on a ProCurve switch
• Compare and Contrast symmetric / asymmetric encryption schemes
• Illustrate the use of hash algorithms
• Illustrate the use of digital certificates
• Describe the use of SSH on ProCurve switches
• Secure console sessions using SSH on ProCurve switches
• List the benefits and costs of deploying SSH
• Describe the use of SSL on ProCurve switches
• Secure web management sessions using SSL on ProCurve switches
• List the benefits and costs of deploying SSL
• Describe the benefits of using VLANs and ACLs to secure a network
• Describe the use of port security
• Implement a port security scheme
• List the benefits and costs of a port security scheme
• Illustrate how 802.1x user authentication works
• Explain how users can be authenticated and managed with the use of 802.1x and VLANs