UW-Madison Security Training Series
The Office of Campus Information Security (OCIS) is teaming up with DoIT Professional Technical Education (PTE) to sponsor a UW-Madison Security Training Series for campus IT professionals.
This class will help prepare you for the ongoing process of managing a UW-Madison firewall context. Participants will have to configure their own lab firewall and verify success. Before registering for this course, please read the following, which describes the process for becoming a firewall context administrator: http://helpdesk.wisc.edu/ns/page.php?id=8048.
Course Materials:
Bring your computer to this hands-on workshop where workshop leaders will help you determine if your computer is adequately protected from common security threats and check your configurations to ensure that essential security settings are enabled.
Course Materials:
This three-hour course is presented in a lecture-and-discussion format. It introduces the attendees to fundamental practices and policies for the management of sensitive data on the UW Campuses. This includes a discussion of good (and bad) data management techniques, how to locate sensitive data within a network, and what steps should be taken if sensitive data may have been accessed by unauthorized personnel.
Course Materials:
This course will consider the basics of securing Windows systems. Topics include general system security, account security, hardening, logging and documentation. Students will receive personalized instruction, with a step-by-step walkthrough of security configuration policies based upon well-defined scope and security principles. Consideration is given to topics that system administrators typically overlook, including physical security, logging, documentation, and using recommended scanning tools.
To register for any of these courses, go to Professional Technical Education.