Securing Your Web with Cisco IronPort S-Series (SYW)

Course Description Schedule Course Outline

Detailed Course Outline

Module 1 - Course & Product Overview

  • Introduction
  • Customer Use Case
  • S-Series Architecture
  • Installation and Configuration
  • Course Lab Environment
  • Lab – Initial setup and configuration

Module 2 - Deploying Proxy Services

  • Proxy Modes
  • PAC files
  • Configuration and Management
  • Native FTP Proxy
  • Reading the proxy access log and the HTTP headers
  • Lab – Native FTP Proxy, Custom EUNs, Acknowledgement pages, Proxy Logs, HTTP headers, PAC files

Module 3 - Utilizing Authentication

  • Feature Overview (Proxy Authentication, group based policies)
  • Configuration
  • Troubleshooting
  • Lab – Configure, test and troubleshoot NTLM and LDAP authentication.

Module 4 - Configuring S-Series Policies

  • Feature Overview (Policy Framework, types of policies)
  • Configuration
  • Logging
  • Lab – Configure Access Policies

Module 5 - Enforcing Acceptable Use

  • Feature Overview
  • URL Categories
  • Application Visibility and Control
  • SaaS Access Control
  • Configuration
  • Logging and Reporting
  • Lab -- URL filters, bandwidth controls

Module 6 - Defending Against Malware

  • Feature Overview
  • Web Reputation Filters
  • DVS engine
  • HTTPS inspection
  • Configuration
  • Logging and Reporting
  • Lab – Web Reputation Filters, DVS engine HTTPS inspection

Module 7 - Data Security

  • IronPort Data Security
  • Data Loss Prevention
  • Logging
  • Lab -- IronPort Data Security

Module 8 - Administrative Tasks

  • Report Administration
  • Monitoring the S-Series
  • W3C Logging
  • Other Administrative Tasks
  • Lab – SNMP

Module 9 - Troubleshooting

  • Hardware Redundancy
  • Troubleshooting Tools
  • Access Log
  • Lab – Eight troubleshooting scenarios