Compare and contrast the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) security frameworks, and understand the importance of adopting standardised frameworks for cybersecurity in enhancing an organisation's security posture
Describe the Cisco Security Reference Architecture and its five main components
Describe commonly deployed use cases and recommend the necessary capabilities within an integrated security architecture to address them effectively
Describe the Cisco Secure Architecture for Everyone (SAFE) architecture
Review the benefits, components, and process of certificate-based authentication for both users and devices
Enable Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect an application from the Duo Administration Portal, and then configure the application to use Duo MFA for user login authentication
Install Cisco Duo and implement its multifactor authentication on remote access virtual private network (VPN)
Configure endpoint compliance
Review and demonstrate the ability to understand Stateful Switchover (SSO) using security assertion markup language (SAML) or OpenID Connect together with Cisco Duo
Describe Cisco software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) on-box and integrated threat prevention security services
Describe SD-WAN on-box and integrated content filtering security services
Describe the features and capabilities of Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG), such as DNS Security, Cloud-Delivered Firewall (CDFW), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and interaction with Cisco SD-WAN
Introduce the reverse proxy for internet-facing applications protections
Explore the Cisco Umbrella SIG use case to secure cloud application access, the limitations and benefits of the solution, and the features available to discover and control access to cloud delivered applications
Explore the Cisco ThousandEyes capabilities for monitoring the Cisco SD-WAN deployment
Describe the challenges of accessing SaaS applications in modern business environments and explore the Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for SaaS solution with direct or centralied internet access
Introduce the Cisco Secure Firewall platforms, use cases, and security capabilities
Demonstrate a comprehesive understanding of web application firewalls
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Cisco Secure Workload capabilities, deployment options, agents, and connectors
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Cisco Secure Workload application dependency mapping and policy discovery
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of common cloud attack tactics and mitigation strategies
Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of multicloud security requirements and policy capabilities
Introduce the security issues with the adoption of public clouds and common capabilities of cloud visibility and assurance tools to mitigate these issues
Introduce Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Security Analytics and Logging
Describe Cisco Attack Surface Management
Describe how Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and automation can help in troubleshooting cloud policy, especially in the context of misconfigurations
Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the appropriate responses to cloud threats in specific scenarios
Demonstrate the comprehensive knowledge required to use automation for cloud threat detection and response
The knowledge and skills you are expected to have before attending this training are:
