In this hands-on course, you will cover the installation and configuration of RSA Authentication Manager software, Authentication Agents, and other RSA SecurID system components.

Certification:

RSA SecureID Certified Administrator (CA)

What You'll Learn

• Plan and perform the pre-installation tasks to prepare for RSA Authentication Manager software installation in a Microsoft Windows environment
• Plan and perform pre-installation, installation, and configuration tasks for RSA Authentication Manager software and appliance
• Configuration required for RSA Authentication Manager system operations
• Connect to Identity Sources for external user repositories (Active Directory and LDAP)
• Create redundant/failover RSA Authentication Manager replica servers and replica server instances role and management
• Install and configure RSA Authentication Agent hosts for local workstation and web access protection
• Perform RSA Authentication Agent host configurations to accomplish system load balancing

Who Needs to Attend

Technical personnel who install, service, and support RSA SecurID installations

Prerequisites

• Microsoft Windows or UNIX system administration experience
• RSA SecurID Administration or equivalent v7.1 administration experience

• RSA SecurID Administration

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Certification Programs and Certificate Tracks

This course is part of the following programs or tracks:

• RSA SecurID Certified Administrator Certification

Course Outline

1. Building a Security Solution

• Enterprise assessment and analysis
• Security planning
  • Scalability, redundancy, and performance (host, remote, web, realm, and server access)
• Working with firewalls and network address translation

2. RSA Authentication Manager Software Installation

• Pre-Installation considerations
• Installation and configuration of software and appliance solutions
• RSA Authentication Agent software installation and system testing
• Post-Installation tasks
  • System configuration parameters and Agent settings and options

3. RSA SecurID Appliance

• Similarities and differences between the Appliance and Authentication Manager software
• Appliance models and installation/setup procedure

4. RADIUS Interface

• RADIUS functions and capabilities
• Configuring RADIUS to integrate with RSA Authentication Manager software

5. Managing RSA Authentication Manager Replica Servers

• Strategies for dealing with primary server failures and replica promotion
• Creating replica packages
• Establishing preferred and failover servers in legacy Agent hosts

6. Authentication Agent Configurations

• Functions and features of representative Authentication Agent installations for Microsoft Windows and UNIX operating systems
• Configuring Agent software for local, network, and web access protection
• Handling node secret and sdconf.rec files

7. Maintenance and Disaster Recovery

• System maintenance, including backups and audit log archiving
  • Using the command line utility package

8. Credential Manager ConfigurationSetting up the Credential Manager for provisioning

Labs

In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes hands-on labs designed to give you practical experience.