ITC-2850 Official Course Schedule

Aug 25

Class kick-off

Aug 27

  • Lecture: Security Pod Design and Configuration I

Sep 1

  • Lecture: Security Pod Design and Configuration II

Sep 3

  • Lecture/Demonstration: OPNSense Basic Setup

Sep 8

  • Lab: OPNSense Basic Setup

Sep 10

  • Lecture/Demonstration: OpenVPN Road Warrior Configuration

Sep 15

  • Lab: OpenVPN Road Warrior Configuration

Sep 17

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Wireguard Site-to-Site VPN Configuration

Sep 22

NO CLASS: Student Success Day

Sep 24

  • Lab: Wireguard Site-to-Site VPN Configuration

Sep 29

  • Lecture/Demonstration: IDS/IPS with Suricata

Oct 1

  • Lab: IDS/IPS with Suricata

Oct 6

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Implementing Basic TOTP VPN Authentication

Oct 8

  • Lab: Implementing Basic TOTP VPN Authentication

Oct 13

  • Lecture: Introduction to Authentication Protocols

Oct 15

NO CLASS: MEA

Oct 20

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Centralized Identity Provider with Authentik

Oct 22

  • Lab: Authentik Setup & OAUTH Web App Setup

Oct 27

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Centralized VPN Authentication over LDAP

Oct 29

  • Lab: OpenVPN Authentication over LDAP

Nov 3

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Centralized VPN Authentication over RADIUS and LDAP Group Sync

Nov 5

  • Lab: OPNsense Authentication via RADIUS, also LDAP Group Sync

Nov 10

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Modern OAUTH Authentication for OpenVPN

Nov 12

  • Lab: OAUTH for OpenVPN

Nov 17

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Microsoft Entra ID Introduction

Nov 19

  • Lab: Entra ID Part I

Nov 24

  • Lab: Entra ID Part II

  • Decide on a project and get it approved

  • Last Day of regular class, project work begins next week

Nov 26

NO CLASS: Thanksgiving

Dec 1

  • Project Work Time

Dec 3

  • Project Work Time

Dec 8

  • Project Work Time

Dec 10

Project Presentations

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