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San Jose, CA - April 23 - 25, 2007
Global Information Assurance Certification

Excellent, relevant, immediately useful information. I can't wait to get back to the office to try it out.
-Steve Zehl, USGS


Additional Course Offerings: Additional courses are available in San Jose on April 25th. Please visit the WhatWorks in Log Management Summit 2007 page for more information.

SPECIAL

What's New For Security and Encryption In Windows Vista?

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 : 9am - 12pm
Jason Fossen, SANS Faculty Fellow
3 CPE Credits Per Day

What's new for security in Windows Vista? The biggest change is the addition of BitLocker Drive Encryption. BitLocker provides sector-level encryption of entire drive volumes, including the hibernation and paging files. Along with a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) in the motherboard, BitLocker also provides boot-up integrity protection.

This course will discuss the new security-related technologies in Windows Vista. The course assumes you already have a Windows security background, such as from taking the Security Essentials (SEC401) or Securing Windows (SEC505) tracks, and only includes the differences between Windows XP/2003 and Vista.

In addition to BitLocker, the course also includes topics such as EFS, Mandatory Integrity Control, IPSec AuthIP, the new Windows Firewall, Internet Explorer 7.0 Protected Mode, Windows Defender, and more. Because this is a half-day course these other topics will be covered only briefly.

It is recommended that you bring a laptop or virtual machine with Windows Vista Ultimate or Enterprise Edition pre-installed, but this is not required. Ideally, your laptop will have a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) chip in the motherboard and you'll have a USB flash drive of at least 16MB capacity, but these aren't required either. And don't forget to bring the Vista installation DVD too!

  • Who Should Attend This Course:
    • Anyone Researching Whole=Drive Encryption Solutions
    • All Windows Network Engineers and MCSEs
    • Purchasing Managers Considering Vista
    • All Security Professionals -- Vista Is The Future
  • Topics Covered
    • BitLocker Drive Encryption
    • Encrypting File System (EFS) Changes
    • IE 7.0 Enhancements
    • User Account Control (UAC)
    • Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
    • Mandatory Integrity Control (MIC)
    • Session-0 Isolation
    • Windows Defender
    • IPSec Enhancements
    • Kernel Patch Protection (PatchGuard)
    • Service Hardening
    • And More!

SANS is without a doubt the best technical training organization out there. If I had to limit my training budget to one course per year, it would be from SANS.
-Anthony DiMarco, Osteotech, Inc.