This two-day certification course provides comprehensive information and hands-on experience with Tripwire™ for Servers 3.0, Tripwire™ Manager 3.0 and Tripwire™ Policy Wizard 1.0. Participants come away with a thorough understanding of how these products provide Data Integrity Assurance. Instruction includes installation, configuration, deployment, and systematic processes for maintenance. This course aids the participants in developing a working strategy that can be utilized for their own corporate networks. The Tripwire™ Certified Professional exam is proctored the final 30 min of the course.

This is a technically oriented course designed for system and network administrators or security experts. The training is performed on Windows 2000/NT or XP.

Who Should Attend

This technical course is designed for system and network administrators, support engineers and/or computer security experts.

Prerequisites

Participants need to have strong understanding of the operating system they wish to support.

Course Materials and Software

All course materials are included in the price of the course.
The course materials, lectures, and lab exercises will be presented in English.

Course Outline

Module 1: Installation

• Function of Tripwire™ for Servers and Tripwire™ Manager
  
• Installing Tripwire™ for Servers (Windows and UNIX)
  
• Installing Tripwire™ Manager (Windows and Solaris)
  
• Configuring the Tripwire™ Manager Graphical Environment
  
• Managing Multiple Machines Using Tripwire™ Manager
  

Module 2: Configuration & Security

• Configuring Tripwire™ for Servers
  
• Securing Tripwire™ for Servers Files
  
• Secure Communication Between Tripwire™ for Servers and Tripwire™ Manager
  

Module 3: Tripwire™ Operations

• Review of Installation and Configuration
  
• Policy File Creation
  
• Order of Operations
  
• Updating the Policy File
  
• Running Integrity Checks
  
• Examining Reports
  
• HTML/XML Report Options
  
• Database Update

Module 4: Policy File Writing & Syntax

• Policy File Overview
  
• Sections, Variables, Rules, Properties and Attributes
  
• Executing Commands During an Integrity Check
  
• Special Directives
  
• Constructing Rule Blocks

Module 5: Strategies for Policy File Editing

• Deployment
  
• Determining a Strategy
  
• Policy File Creation Procedure
  
• Creating a Policy Template
  
• Installing and Using the Tripwire™ Policy Wizard
  
• Installing and Tuning a Pre-Defined Policy
  
• Adding Applications to a Policy

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