IBM ISS Proventia Desktop & Server

Course Description:

The Host Protection training course introduces concepts, frameworks, methodologies and strategies that are effective in successfully using Proventía Desktop and Proventia Server products. The course focuses on hands-on training supported by slide presentations, demonstrations, and lecture. The course starts with a general product overview. After gaining an understanding of Host Protection Agents (listed above under "Product Version") and how they work to secure a system, students learn about SiteProtector's Agent Manager for the creation and management of the Proventía Desktop and Proventia Server policies and properties. They learn how to generate agent builds, to deploy and manage Proventía agents.

This course is suitable for Security professionals and system administrators engaged in assessing security and securing their server systems

Key Instructional Focus and Objectives:

• Understanding the methodology and functionality of Host Agents
• Generating Agent Builds
• Identifying the elements of Policies
• Using the Policy Editor to configure sensor policies and responses
• Understanding Application Protection, Adaptive Policy, Antivirus Compliance, Buffer Overflow Exploit
• Prevention and Virus Prevention
• Agent deployment and deployment considerations

Key Hands-on Lab Focus and Objectives:

• Configure Agent manager
• Configure agent policies
• Create agent builds
• Configure agents