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Cisco SWSA
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.
Course Overview
Required
1. TCP/IP services, including Domain Name System (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP, and HTTPS
2. IP routing
Recommended
1. CompTIA A+ (Exam 220-1001 & 220-1002) e-Learning
2. CompTIA Server+ Certification Prep (Exam SK0-004)
3. CompTIA Network+ Certification Prep (Exam N10-007)
4. CompTIA Security+ Certification Prep (Exam SY0-501)
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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
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