Overview
This course shows you how to follow best practices for secure design, deployment, and operation of a VMware vSphere™ environment. Through lecture, discussion, and hands-on practice, you will gain the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the security and compliance goals of your organization.
Objectives
- Identify vulnerabilities in the current design of a vSphere environment and recommend corrective actions
- Harden vSphere components as described in vSphere Hardening Guide
- Recommend configuration and change management policies, processes, and systems
Who Should Attend?
System administrators, systems engineers, and consultants responsible for securing a vSphere installation
Outline
Module 1: Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
- Online resources for security and compliance
Module 2: Security in a Virtual Environment
- Review of information security and risk management concepts
- How virtualization affects security and compliance
- Top vulnerabilities in a virtual environment
- Basic guidelines for securing a virtual environment
- Security tools and technologies
Module 3: Secure Virtual Networking
- vNetwork security architecture
- Network segmentation and traffic isolation
- Secure virtual network configuration
- Traffic isolation with private VLANs
Module 4: Protecting the Management Environment
- vCenter Server authentication, authorization, and accountingWorking with SSL certificates
- Hardening the vCenter Server system
Module 5: Protecting VMware ESX/ESXi Host Systems
- ESX and ESXi security architecture
- Controlling access to storage
- Hardening ESX and ESXi hosts.
Module 6: Hardening Virtual Machines
- Virtual machine security architecture
- Configuring security parameters
Module 7: Configuration and Change Management
- Configuration and change management goals and guidelines
- Maintaining the proper configuration of vSphere components
- Monitoring logs for security-related events
- Configuration and change management tools and technologies
Prerequisites
This is an advanced course. Prerequisites include the completion of one of the following:
- VMware vSphere 4: Install, Configure, Manage
- VMware vSphere: Fast Track
- VMware vSphere 4: What’s New
- Equivalent knowledge and administration experience with VMware ESX™/ESXi and VMware vCenter™ Server
Experience working at the command prompt is helpful.