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IT Security Courseware and Hands-on Labs, via Virtual Training Environment (VTE)

COMING TO A PC NEAR YOU -- SUMMER 2010 !!!!!!!. IT Security Courseware and Hands-on Labs, via Virtual Training Environment (VTE) Federal Cybersecurity Training Exercise Program Presented by: Brenda Oldfield DHS Lead: CNCI Education Initiative 25 February 2010. 1. Government-wide Access

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IT Security Courseware and Hands-on Labs, via Virtual Training Environment (VTE)

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  1. COMING TO A PC NEAR YOU -- SUMMER 2010 !!!!!!! IT Security Courseware and Hands-on Labs, via Virtual Training Environment (VTE) Federal Cybersecurity Training Exercise Program Presented by: Brenda Oldfield DHS Lead: CNCI Education Initiative 25 February 2010 1

  2. Government-wide Access CMU/SEI Virtual Training Environment (VTE) • Online, on-demand training content to Federal IT Security users: • Role-based skills training • Hands-on laboratories • Will Support >100K Federal IT security users: ~25K simultaneous users • Access entirely via web-browser using only components/settings available on standard desktop configuration • DHS Cybersecurity Training/Education Partnerships: • Carnegie Mellon University/Software Engineering Institute (CMU/SEI) • Technical Engineering Services, content transfer, instructor support • Department of State, Foreign Service Institute • Hosting: Setup/Configuration/Support

  3. What is VTE? http://vte.cert.org (or Google VTE – it’s the first link) • VTE is a Web-based online training platform and knowledge library for Information Security, Forensics, and Incident Response material • Self-paced, but not CBT • 20+ on-demand courses • 800+ hours of captured classroom instruction • 75+ hands-on labs using VMWare Virtual Machines

  4. VTE Material and Usage • Course Highlights: • CompTIA Security+ Prep • CompTIA Network+ Prep • CompTIA A+ Prep (Summer 2010) • (ISC)2 CISSP Prep • Cisco CCNA • Cisco Security (Summer 2010) • Certified Ethical Hacker (Summer 2010) • Introduction to Networking • Lifetime Usage Statistics • 445,874 hours of training delivered • That’s almost 15,000 person-weeks of training! • 85,044 Labs delivered • 36,880 Users

  5. VTE Key Features: Video Lecture • Synchronized video, slide, transcript • Searchable • Bookmarks • Linked takeaways (slides, transcript) from the interface • Online note-taking

  6. VTE Key Features: Labs • Real networks and computers • Accessible directly in browser • Deployed on demand • Isolated training network • 75+ Available configurations • Firewalls • Web • Exchange • Attack/Defend

  7. What do End-Users Need? • Broadband (>200kbps) Internet connection (for video streaming) • AJAX-capable browser (Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+, Mozilla Firefox 2.0+ for Windows, Firefox for Mac OS X and Linux variants, Google Chrome • Adobe Flash 9+ browser plug-in for access to lecture videos (Flash 10 recommended) • Java Virtual Machine 1.5+ for access to Lab environments • Adobe Acrobat Reader (for viewing PDF downloads) Verified on FDCC and DoD systems, networks and firewalls

  8. Brief end user demo (click to play)

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