Cisco Introduction to Cisco Secure Firewall (ICSFW)

Price
$3,695.00 USD

Duration
3 Days

Cisco Learning Credit (CLC) Eligible

 

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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Course Overview

In this 3-day course students will learn to deploy, configure, and manage Cisco Secure Firewall/Firepower Threat Defense. This hands-on course will help develop the skills to use and configure Cisco FTD, starting with the initial device setup and configuration. Students will learn to implement Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) and Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention System (NGIPS) features. Students will also learn to analyze events, system administration, and basic troubleshooting.

Course Objectives

  • Describe the operating principles of a Next-Generation Firewall
  • Configure any Cisco Secure Firewall using the GUI
  • Ensure that proper perimeter security is enabled using Cisco Secure Firewall
  • Describe the different common use cases of Cisco Secure Firewall

Who Should Attend?

  • Network Security Administrators
  • Network Security Engineers
  • Network Security Managers
  • Security Sales Engineers
  • Security System Engineers
  • Anyone else who wants to learn about Cisco Secure Firewall
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  • Interactive classroom participation: Our virtual training includes live lectures, demonstrations and virtual labs that allow you to participate in discussions with your instructor and fellow classmates to get real-time feedback.
  • Post Class Resources: Review your class content, catch up on any material you may have missed or perfect your new skills with access to resources after your course is complete.
  • Private Group Training: Let our world-class instructors deliver exclusive training courses just for your employees. Our private group training is designed to promote your team’s shared growth and skill development.
  • Tailored Training Solutions: Our subject matter experts can customize the class to specifically address the unique goals of your team.

Course Prerequisites

  • Before taking this course, it would be good to have some understanding of Network Security fundamentals.
  • Exposure to working with any Network firewall will be an advantage.

Agenda

1. Overview of Cisco Secure Firewall (CSF)

  • Basic firewall and IPS terminologies
  • Understand CSF features
  • Examine different platforms
  • Examine licensing
  • General implementation use cases

2. Device Configuration

  • Device Registration
  • Differentiate between FXOS and FTD image
  • Differentiate between management options FDM and FMC
  • Initial device activation and configuration
  • Examining different policies
  • Define objects
  • Explore system configuration
  • Configure Health Monitoring
  • Discuss device/ platform management options
  • Overview of High Availability

3. Cisco Secure Firewall Traffic Control

  • Describe packet processing
  • Explain traffic bypassing
  • Discuss pre-filter policy

4. Network Address Translation (NAT) Configurations

  • Overview of NAT
  • Different NAT rule types
  • Implementing and configuring NAT

5. Network Discovery

  • Explain Network Discovery
  • Configure Network Discovery

6. Access Control Policies

  • Overview of Access Control Policies (ACP)
  • Describe Access Control Policy rules and default action
  • Define further inspection feature in a rule
  • Overview of logging options for a rule
  • Advanced Settings in an ACP
  • Deploying the change in an ACP

7. Security Intelligence

  • Overview of Security Intelligence (SI)
  • Configure Security Intelligence objects
  • Deploy SI

8. File Control and Advanced Malware Protection

  • Overview of malware and file policy
  • Discuss Advanced Malware Protection

9. Next-Generation Intrusion Prevention Systems

  • Overview of Intrusion Prevention and Snort rules
  • Explain variables and variable sets
  • Configure intrusion policies
  • Describe firepower recommendations

10. Analyzing different Events

  • Discuss different types of events
  • Explore analysis tools
  • Analyze threats

11. General System Administration

  • Manage device updates
  • Explore user account management features
  • Configuring different user accounts

12. Basic Troubleshooting

  • Identify common misconfigurations
  • Basic troubleshooting commands
  • Using packet trace
 

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