Masterclass: Hacking and Securing Windows Infrastructure – EY Academy of Business

Masterclass: Hacking and Securing Windows Infrastructure - Course

This is a deep dive course on infrastructure services security, a must-go for enterprise administrators, security officers and architects. It is 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.

In this workshop, you will investigate the critical tasks for a high-quality penetration test. We will look at the most efficient ways to map a network and discover target systems and services. Once it has been done, we will search for vulnerabilities and reduce false positives with manual vulnerability verification. At the end, we will look at exploitation techniques, including the use of authored and commercial tools. In the attack summary, we will always go through the securing techniques.

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

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

 

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

Course objective:

Our goal is to show and teach you what kind of mechanisms are allowing you to get inside the infrastructure and how to get into operating systems.

Benefits:

Exploits are not the only way to get to systems! We will go through the operating systems’ build in problems and explore how they can be beneficial for hackers! One of the most important things to conduct a successful attack is to understand how the targets work. To the bones! Afterwards, everything is clear and the tool is just a matter of our need.

The course covers all aspects of Windows infrastructure security from the hacker’s mind perspective!

After the course, you will gain the penetration tester’s knowledge and tools. To get more practice we offer three extra weeks of labs online!

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!

Participants have access to the author’s unique tools, over 100 pages of exercises and presentation slides with notes.

Module 1: Hacking Windows Platform

a) Detecting unnecessary services
b) Misusing service accounts
c) Implementing rights, permissions and privileges

Module 2: Top 50 tools: the attacker’s best friends

a) Practical walkthrough through tools
b) Using tools against scenarios
c) Tools for Red Team / Pentesters
d) Tools for Blue Team

Module 3: Modern Malware

a) Techniques used by modern malware
b) Advanced Persistent Threats
c) Fooling common protection mechanisms

Module 4: Physical Access

a) Misusing USB and other ports
b) Offline Access techniques
c) BitLocker unlocking

Module 5: Intercepting Communication

a) Communicating through firewalls
b) Misusing Remote Access
c) DNS based attacks

Module 6: Hacking Web Server

a) Detecting unsafe servers
b) Hacking HTTPS
c) Distributed Denial of Service attacks

Module 7: Data in-Security

a) Using incorrect file servers’ configuration
b) Basic SQL Server attacks
c) Detecting and attacking common network servers

Module 8: Identity attacks

a) Pass-the-Hash attacks
b) Stealing the LSA Secrets
c) Modern identity attacks techniques

Module 9: Hacking automation

a) Misusing administrative scripts
b) Script-based scanning
c) PowerShell for pen-testers

Module 10: Designing Secure Windows Infrastructure

a) Modern attacks and prevention techniques
b) Malware execution prevention
c) Enterprise-scale security challenges

Module 11: Securing Windows Platform

a) Defining and disabling unnecessary services
b) Implementing secure service accounts
c) Implementing rights, permissions and privileges
d) Code signing

Module 12: Malware Protection

a) Malware investigation techniques
b) Analyzing cases of real malware
c) Implementing protection mechanisms

Module 13: Managing Physical Security

a) Mitigating Offline Access
b) Implementing and managing BitLocker

Module 14: 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 15: Securing Network Communication

a) Deploying and managing Windows Firewall – advanced and useful features
b) Deploying and configuring IPsec
c) Deploying DNS and DNSSEC

Module 16: 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 17: Mitigating the identity attacks

a) Pass-the-Hash attack prevention
b) LSA protection
c) Credential Guard

Paula Januszkiewicz - CEO and Founder of CQURE Inc. and CQURE Academy. She is also Enterprise Security MVP, honorable Microsoft Regional Director for CEE and a world-class cybersecurity expert, consulting Customers all around the world.

Masterclass: Hacking and Securing Windows Infrastructure

Price

EUR 3500 net

Masterclass: Hacking and Securing Windows Infrastructure

This is a deep dive course on infrastructure services security, a must-go for enterprise administrators, security officers and architects. It is 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.

In this workshop, you will investigate the critical tasks for a high-quality penetration test. We will look at the most efficient ways to map a network and discover target systems and services. Once it has been done, we will search for vulnerabilities and reduce false positives with manual vulnerability verification. At the end, we will look at exploitation techniques, including the use of authored and commercial tools. In the attack summary, we will always go through the securing techniques.

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

For whom?

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

 

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

Objectives and benefits

Course objective:

Our goal is to show and teach you what kind of mechanisms are allowing you to get inside the infrastructure and how to get into operating systems.

Benefits:

Exploits are not the only way to get to systems! We will go through the operating systems’ build in problems and explore how they can be beneficial for hackers! One of the most important things to conduct a successful attack is to understand how the targets work. To the bones! Afterwards, everything is clear and the tool is just a matter of our need.

The course covers all aspects of Windows infrastructure security from the hacker’s mind perspective!

After the course, you will gain the penetration tester’s knowledge and tools. To get more practice we offer three extra weeks of labs online!

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!

Participants have access to the author’s unique tools, over 100 pages of exercises and presentation slides with notes.

Program

Module 1: Hacking Windows Platform

a) Detecting unnecessary services
b) Misusing service accounts
c) Implementing rights, permissions and privileges

Module 2: Top 50 tools: the attacker’s best friends

a) Practical walkthrough through tools
b) Using tools against scenarios
c) Tools for Red Team / Pentesters
d) Tools for Blue Team

Module 3: Modern Malware

a) Techniques used by modern malware
b) Advanced Persistent Threats
c) Fooling common protection mechanisms

Module 4: Physical Access

a) Misusing USB and other ports
b) Offline Access techniques
c) BitLocker unlocking

Module 5: Intercepting Communication

a) Communicating through firewalls
b) Misusing Remote Access
c) DNS based attacks

Module 6: Hacking Web Server

a) Detecting unsafe servers
b) Hacking HTTPS
c) Distributed Denial of Service attacks

Module 7: Data in-Security

a) Using incorrect file servers’ configuration
b) Basic SQL Server attacks
c) Detecting and attacking common network servers

Module 8: Identity attacks

a) Pass-the-Hash attacks
b) Stealing the LSA Secrets
c) Modern identity attacks techniques

Module 9: Hacking automation

a) Misusing administrative scripts
b) Script-based scanning
c) PowerShell for pen-testers

Module 10: Designing Secure Windows Infrastructure

a) Modern attacks and prevention techniques
b) Malware execution prevention
c) Enterprise-scale security challenges

Module 11: Securing Windows Platform

a) Defining and disabling unnecessary services
b) Implementing secure service accounts
c) Implementing rights, permissions and privileges
d) Code signing

Module 12: Malware Protection

a) Malware investigation techniques
b) Analyzing cases of real malware
c) Implementing protection mechanisms

Module 13: Managing Physical Security

a) Mitigating Offline Access
b) Implementing and managing BitLocker

Module 14: 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 15: Securing Network Communication

a) Deploying and managing Windows Firewall – advanced and useful features
b) Deploying and configuring IPsec
c) Deploying DNS and DNSSEC

Module 16: 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 17: Mitigating the identity attacks

a) Pass-the-Hash attack prevention
b) LSA protection
c) Credential Guard

Price

EUR 3500 net

Location

Online Live

Date

New date will be announced soon

Contact

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