Apple Certified Specialist – Security and Mobility 10.6

Apple’s Mac OS X Security and Mobility v10.6 training course is a 3 day leader led course with plenty of hands on labs that provides a really in-depth look at providing secure services to mobile devices such as iPhone and iPad. You will leaner to provide secure services such as mail, web and calendars so they can seamless access these services either locally or remotely seamlessly. You will also have a look at the types off applications that can be created for iOS devices as well as how to deploy iOS devices and configure them..

Who Should Attend?

  • Gain specific knowledge about DNS, VPN, firewalls, certificates and proxy servers
  • Effectively configure mobile devices that are connected to public networks to access services running on a private network
  • Configure Mac OS X Server to provide trusted authentication to proxied services such as web, mail, and calendar.

Prerequisites

Students should have the following prerequisite knowledge prior to attending this course:

  • Basic troubleshooting experience or Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.6
  • Basic Mac OS X Server experience or Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.6
  • Understanding of basic IP networking, including IP address, subnet masks, ports, and protocols
  • Experience using the command-line interface with Mac OS

Apple Certified System Administrator (ACSA)

This course covers a portion of the knowledge necessary to become an Apple Certified System Administrator 10.5. ACSA certification is granted upon successful completion of the Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.6, Mac OS X Directory Services v10.6, Mac OS X Deployment v10.6, and Mac OS X Security and Mobility v10.6 exam.

 

Apple Certified Specialist – Security and Mobility 10.6

Course Overview

• DNS: DNS is a key services to providing secure services. Here you will see how to edit and create zones files as well as how to secure and make your DNS services more resilient.

• DHCP: Learn how the Apple DHCP server functions. See how you can provide secure DHCP services as weal as how to troubleshoot this service.

• NAT/Gateway: Leant how Apple’s Network Address Translation service functions. Learn how to configure it as a gateway for your network devices.

• Firewall: Learn how to setup Mac OS X server’s firewall to provide security to your Mac OS X server infrastructure.

• VPN: Using Apple’s VPN service, learn how to provide secure public access to your internal network for Mac OS X and iOS devices.

• Keys and Certificates: Keys and certificates are used widely to provide secure connections between devices. Learn how certificates and how you can create your own.

• Providing iPhone Applications: Apple’s iPhone Configuration Utility is used to create configuration profiles for iOS devices. Learn how to create these profiles, what they can do and how to deploy them. You will also have a look at Apple’s development tools such as Xcode and Dashcode. You will use Dashcode to create a web app and then deploy it so iOS devices can access it.

• Mobile Access Server: Finally you will install and configure Apple’s Mobile Access Server to provide secure access from a public network to your internally hosted collaboration services such as Mail, iCal, Mail and Web.