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Exchange Server 2007: Securing

MES07-SE      Course duration (days): 3
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11/02/09 London (Central) (NW1) £ 1,395
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About this class

In this course, you gain the knowledge and skills to build a secure Exchange 2007 infrastructure and successfully implement its built-in compliance features.

Who will the lesson benefit?

This course is valuable for systems and network administrators who need to enhance the security of their Exchange infrastructure. Course 980, " Exchange Server 2007 Administration ", or equivalent knowledge is assumed. Experience with the Active Directory is helpful.

What delegates will learn

  • Create a secure Exchange 2007 environment
  • Assess e-mail vulnerabilities within your organisation
  • Protect your environment from internal threats
  • Minimise risk to Exchange servers from malicious Internet-based attacks
  • Implement certificates effectively to safeguard e-mail content
  • Benefit from the built-in features of Exchange and third-party products to assist in regulatory compliance

Contents of this class

Introduction to Security and Compliance

Exploiting security vulnerabilities

  • Common e-mail hacking methodologies
  • Analysing The Trustworthy Computing Initiative from Microsoft and its relationship to Exchange

Meeting your e-mail compliance needs

  • Investigating regulatory requirements
  • Selecting the best compliance methods

Hardening your Internal Server Configuration

Reducing vulnerabilities from within your organisation

  • Strengthening Exchange with service packs and security updates
  • Delegating with the principles of least privilege
  • Auditing administrative actions with event logging for accountability

Protecting e-mail in transit

  • Defining Transport Layer Security (TLS) architecture and best practices
  • Securing your infrastructure in a mixed environment with legacy Exchange servers
  • Analysing network traffic for suspicious activity with Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

Safeguarding Servers from External Threats

Minimising SMTP transport risk

  • Defending against malicious SMTP attacks
  • Utilising tarpitting to thwart directory harvest attacks
  • Logging activities to identify hackers
  • Implementing message and connection filtering to reject unwanted e-mail

Creating a protective perimeter network

  • Leveraging firewalls to publish internal resources
  • Filtering messages with Edge Transport servers
  • Employing Microsoft Forefront as an anti-virus solution

Maximising E-Mail Security

Demystifying digital encryption

  • Fundamentals of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  • Implementing certificates for secure messaging in Outlook and Outlook Web Access (OWA)
  • Verifying sender identity with digital signatures
  • Ensuring message confidentiality with digital encryption
  • Communicating securely outside your organisation with trusted Certification Authorities (CA)

Controlling e-mail content

  • Setting up a Rights Management Server (RMS)
  • Configuring Rights Management policies to limit the actions of users
  • Capitalising on Rights Management features in Outlook

Simplifying E-Mail Compliance

Exchange built-in compliance components

  • Journaling all messages to meet industry regulations
  • Controlling e-mail life cycle with managed folders
  • Exploiting transport rules to categorize and redirect messages
  • Leveraging the improved search capabilities of Outlook and Exchange

Incorporating external solutions

  • Integrating SharePoint with Exchange for long-term storage and classification of messaging data
  • Interoperating with third party products to simplify compliance administration