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

Oct 27

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

Oct 29

  • Lab: OpenVPN Authentication over RADIUS and/or LDAP

Nov 3

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Modern Authentication with OAUTH

Nov 5

  • Lab: Basic OAUTH for Web App

Nov 10

  • Lecture/Demonstration: Modern OAUTH Authentication for OpenVPN

Nov 12

  • Lab: OAUTH for OpenVPN

Nov 17

Nov 19

Nov 24

Last Day of regular class, project work begins

Nov 26

NO CLASS: Thanksgiving

Dec 10

Project Presentations

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