Who should attend
The course is aimed at Microsoft Windows system administrators, security experts and administrators, technical support, and presale engineers.
Prerequisites
- Basic understanding of networking technologies: TCP/IP, DNS, email, web.
- Basic Windows administrator skills.
- Basic knowledge of information security principles
Course Objectives
Kaspersky Vulnerability and Patch Management (previously known as Kaspersky Systems Management) covers a large number of varied tools necessary for monitoring, management and troubleshooting. The theoretical part of the course and hands-on labs provide students with knowledge and skills needed to:
- Manage vulnerabilities and software updates on the network computers
- Capture, reconfigure and install operating system images
- Work with the hardware and software registries, manage the licenses of third-party applications, and configure integration with SIEM systems
Course Content
1. Introduction
- 1.1. Vulnerability and Patch Management in Kaspersky Security Center
- 1.2. Licensing
- 1.3. Access to the Vulnerability and Patch Management functionality in the Kaspersky Security Center interface
2. Vulnerability and patch management
- 2.1. Problem statement
- 2.2. Search for vulnerabilities and required updates
- 2.3. Windows Update synchronization
- Lab 1. How to prepare Kaspersky Security Center for the WSUS server role
- 2.4. Installing required updates and fixing vulnerabilities
- Lab 2. How to scan for vulnerabilities and required updates
- Lab 3. How to install critical Windows updates on workstations
- Lab 4. How to fix the vulnerability exploited by the WannaCry malware
- 2.5. Installing software using the Kaspersky database of third-party applications
- Lab 5. How to install only approved updates for third-party software in a group of computers
- Lab 6. How to automatically update all browsers on the client computers
- Lab 7. How to fix vulnerabilities in all programs, except, for example, Java
- Lab 8. how to install all available third-party updates in a group of computers
- Lab 9. How to install a third-party application using the Kaspersky database
- 2.6. Monitoring
3. Capturing and deploying computer images
- 3.1. Problem statement
- 3.2. Preparation
- 3.3. How to create an operating system image
- 3.4. How to customize an operating system image
- 3.5. How to deploy an operating system image
- 3.6. Image deployment using a PXE server
- Lab 10. How to capture an operating system image
- Lab 11. How to deploy an operating system image on a managed computer
- Lab 12. How to deploy an operating system image on a bare metal computer