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Practical Security
Take an all-new look at security in a Microsoft environment, including information on the latest threats, tricks for securing key components of your environment, and much more. All topics are delivered by speakers from across the broad TechMentor arsenal of experts, so that you get the very best independent information available.
| THURSDAY, October 18 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Practical Security | 8:30 – 10:00am | TH5 | Using Forefront Client Security |
| 10:15 – 11:45am | TH10 | Using Standards and Security for Compliant Windows Desktop |
| 1:00 – 2:30pm | TH15 | Unveiling the Top Group Policy Security Settings |
| 2:45 – 4:15pm | TH20 | Managing Microsoft Forefront Servers with Forefront Sever Security Management |
| FRIDAY, October 19 | ||
| 8:30 – 10:00am | F5 | Protecting Microsoft Exchange 2007 with Forefront Security for Exchange Server |
| 10:15 – 11:45am | F10 | Securing Your Network Using Microsoft Network Access Protectio |
8:30 – 10:00am
Beth Quinlan
Forefront Client Security is a new security product from Microsoft which helps protect business desktops, laptops, and servers from emerging threats such as spyware, rootkits, viruses, and other traditional attacks. It gives you the ability to configure one policy for anti-virus, anti-spyware, and security state assessment. This session will include a discussion of software prerequisites and key steps needed for setting up FCS under one, two, and four server topologies. You will also see how to deploy a client side policy, get signature updates, view alerts and run reports.
10:15 – 11:45am
Derek Melber
Do you have any security compliance regulations you need to meet? Of course you do. Everyone does, whether they are internal or external requirements. When it comes to desktop security compliance, you have tons of options to ensure that your systems meet restrictive security regulatory requirements. With Group Policy and other standardized settings, you can ensure that your users’ environment is as stable and secure as possible. This session will cover the myriad different settings you can standardize to meet your desktop compliance needs.
1:00 – 2:30pm
Derek Melber
Have you looked deep into a Group Policy lately? With more than 2,400 settings in a Windows Vista Group Policy Object (GPO), you have a huge task ahead of you in trying to decrypt some of the key security settings. In this session, we’ll dive into a GPO to show you some of the key security settings you can use to manage security on your servers and desktops. We’ll look at authentication, passwords, firewall settings, IE settings and more. If you’re using Group Policy to manage Windows servers or desktops in your organization (and who isn’t?), this session is for you.
Managing Microsoft Forefront Servers with Forefront Sever Security Management
2:45 – 4:15pm
Beth Quinlan
Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) is a new security product to manage multiple Forefront Server products, such as Forefront Security for Exchange and Forefront Security for SharePoint. In this session, you will learn how to use and configure FSSMC to centrally manage Forefront configuration, distribute scan engine updates to Forefront servers, use templates, and manage quarantine and reports from Forefront servers.
8:30 – 10:00am
Beth Quinlan
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server, the successor to Microsoft Antigen for Exchange, includes multiple scan engines from industry-leading security firms integrated in a single solution to help businesses protect their Exchange messaging environments from viruses, worms, and spam. Changes in the deployment and design of Exchange 2007 have altered how anti-virus scanning is handled for e-mail. In this session you will see how Forefront Security for Exchange Server takes full advantage of these changes. You will learn about new scanning options per Exchange server role, and how Forefront coordinates and optimizes the scanning between multiple Exchange servers.
Securing Your Network Using Microsoft Network Access Protection
10:15 – 11:45am
Beth Quinlan
Network Access Protection (NAP) is a policy enforcement platform built into the Microsoft Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 operating systems that allows you to better protect network assets by enforcing compliance with system health requirements. With NAP you can create customized health policies to validate computer health before allowing access or communication, automatically update compliant computers to ensure ongoing compliance, and optionally confine non-compliant computers to a restricted network. In this session you will learn how to deploy NAP by configuring policies on the Network Policy Server (NPS), Microsoft’s RADIUM implementation and replacement for IAS. You will also learn how to enforce policies based on other enforcement mechanisms such as 802.1x, DHCP, IPSec, and VPN.
