btNOG-9 Workshop

Network Security

Date: 10 – 13 October 2022
Location: Workshop
Venue: Face to Face (Venue to be confirmed)


Synopsis

The tutorial is a customisation of some of the labs that are in the 3 or 5 day Network security workshops that are delivered by APNIC. This is a combine tutorial of the Cryptography fundamentals, Access control, Intro to WiFi and Network Monitoring and Management tutorials.

On completion, you will be able to discover security vulnerabilities across a network and be able to architect and configure your network for maximum security while also being able to monitor for any malicious activities in your network.


Target Audience

  • Engineers, Network Managers and Operators, and Security policy makers who are interested in network security and want to gain an understanding of Cyber security.

Pre-requisites

It is assumed that participants have a basic understanding of:

  • network operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model and TCP/IP.
  • Basic Linux command line (CLI) skills.

We recommend the following Academy courses be completed before the start of the tutorial:


Tutorial topics

  • Introduction to Cryptography
  • Access Control
  • Firewalls
  • Introduction to WiFi
  • Introduction to Network Monitoring and Management

Other requirements

  • Participants are advised to bring their own laptop computers with high-speed Wi-Fi (802.11a/g/n/ac) and administrative access to system. It is also recommended that laptops have Intel i5 or i7 processor, >=8GB of RAM and 30GB of free hard disk space.
  • Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client, VirtualBox/VMware
  • Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure? Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh rviews@route-views.routeviews.org
  • Attendees must have an APNIC Academy login account. If you don’t have one already, you can create an account for free at https://academy.apnic.net/
  • Please test the speed of your Internet connection to the servers where the Virtual Machines (VMs) are hosted at the Learn on Demand data centres, using the speed test tool at https://www.learnondemandsystems.com/speedtest/

Workshop Items

Linux Administration

Date: 10 – 13 October 2022
Location: Thimphu
Venue: Face to Face (Venue to be confirmed)


Synopsis

This technical workshop is designed to teach the require knowledge on how to plan, design and operate the system based on the Linux/Unix based. This main objective is to suits the requirement for the campus network. It covers the basic to intermediate level that will be required for the installation, configuration and management of online application on the Linux.


Target Audience

ICT Engineers, System Administrators and Network Operators


Pre-requisite

Participants should have experience in basic networking and handling online application daily. It is assumed that participants have a basic understanding of:

  • network operations, Internet technologies, OSI reference model and TCP/IP.
  • Basic Linux command line (CLI) skills.

We recommend the following Academy courses be completed before the start of the tutorial:


Workshop topics

  • Network Essentials
  • Linux Introduction
  • Basic Commands
  • Firewall
  • DNS & DNSSEC
  • DHCP
  • Web Servers
  • Database Servers
  • Containerization
  • SNMP and LibreNMS

Other requirements

  • Participants are advised to bring their own laptop computers with high-speed Wi-Fi (802.11a/g/n/ac) and administrative access to system. It is also recommended that laptops have Intel i5 or i7 processor, >=8GB of RAM and 30GB of free hard disk space.
  • Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client, VirtualBox/VMware
  • Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure? Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh rviews@route-views.routeviews.org
  • Attendees must have an APNIC Academy login account. If you don’t have one already, you can create an account for free at https://academy.apnic.net/
  • Please test the speed of your Internet connection to the servers where the Virtual Machines (VMs) are hosted at the Learn on Demand data centres, using the speed test tool at https://www.learnondemandsystems.com/speedtest/

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