Cisco IronPort Training

Attendees should possess the following background knowledge and skills:

• Knowledge of TCP/IP services, including DNS, SSH, FTP, SNMP, HTTP and HTTPS is assumed
• Familiarity with IP routing is assumed
• Familiarity with the Cisco IronPort S-Series Overview, or equivalent knowledge, is assumed.

This comprehensive, two-day training course covers how to install, configure, operate and maintain the S-Series. The course consists of hands-on labs, demos and presentations to help students learn technical aspects of the S-Series Web Security Appliances. After successful completion of the course, the participant will be able to describe, configure, administer, and troubleshoot:

• Policy Layers
• Decryption Policies
• Routing Policies
• Access Policies
• URL filtering
• Predefined URL Categories
• Custom URL Categories
• Time Based Policies
• Web reputation filtering
• The DVS Anti-malware Engine
• Webroot
• McAfee
• HTTPS inspection
• Authentication

The outline of the course is as follows:

Day 1
1. Course & Product Overview
2. Deploying Proxy Services
3. Describing S-Series Policies
4. Enforcing Acceptable Use
5. Defending Against Malware
Day 2
6. Utilizing Authentication
7. Configuring Policies
8. Detecting Compromised Clients
9. System Administration
10. Troubleshooting