• Online, Instructor-Led
  • Online, Self-Paced
  • Classroom

Implement, use, and maintain Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) powered by Cisco Talos, provide advanced protection for your business email, and ensure safety against web security threats! The two-day intermediate-level Cisco Web Security Appliance training helps you in deploying proxy services, using authentication, implementing policies for controlling HTTPS traffic and access, implementing use control settings, and policies. You learn to use the solution’s anti-malware features, implement data security and data loss prevention, perform administration of Cisco WSA solution, and much more.
Cisco security course also prepares you for the 300-725 SWSA exam (Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance), which is required for earning CCNP® Security and Cisco Certified Specialist-Web Content Security certifications.
Note: 300-725 SWSA exam is the only exam necessary for achieving the Cisco Certified Specialist-Web Content Security certification. However, it merely satisfies the concentration exam requirement for CCNP® Security certification.

Learning Objectives

Describe Cisco WSA
Deploy proxy services
Utilize authentication
Describe decryption policies to control HTTPS traffic
Understand differentiated traffic access policies and identification profiles
Enforce acceptable use control settings
Defend against malware
Describe data security and data loss prevention
Perform administration and troubleshooting

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Cyber Defense Infrastructure Support
  • Cyber Operations
  • Network Services

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.

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