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Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA)

Length 4 days
Version 3.2

Course overview

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Why study this course

This course shows you how to deploy and use Cisco® Email Security Appliance to establish protection for your email systems against phishing, business email compromise, and ransomware, and to help streamline email security policy management. This hands-on training provides you with the knowledge and skills to implement, troubleshoot, and administer Cisco Email Security Appliance, including key capabilities, such as advanced malware protection, spam blocking, anti-virus protection, outbreak filtering, encryption, quarantines, and data loss prevention.

This training prepares you for the 300-720 SESA v1.1 exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Email Content Security certification and satisfy the concentration exam requirement for the CCNP Security certification. This training also earns you 24 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards recertification.

Digital courseware: Cisco provides students with electronic courseware for this course. Students who have a confirmed booking will be sent an email prior to the course start date, with a link to create an account via learningspace.cisco.com before they attend their first day of class. Please note that any electronic courseware or labs will not be available (visible) until the first day of the class.

Exam Vouchers: Cisco exam vouchers are not included in the course fees but can be purchased separately where applicable.

Aligns to certification

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Security

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What you’ll learn

After taking this course, you should be able to:

Describe and administer the Cisco Email Security Appliance
Control sender and recipient domains
Control spam with Talos SenderBase and anti-spam
Use anti-virus and outbreak filters
Use mail policies
Use content filters
Use message filters
Prevent data loss
Perform lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) queries
Authenticate simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) sessions
Authenticate email
Encrypt email
Use system quarantines and delivery methods
Perform centralised management using clusters
Test and troubleshoot

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Who is the course for?

Security Engineers
Security Administrators
Security Architects
Operations Engineers
Network Engineers
Network Administrators
Network or Security Technicians
Network Managers
System Designers
Cisco Integrators and Partners

Course subjects

Describing the Cisco Email Security Appliance
Controlling Sender and Recipient Domains
Controlling Spam with Talos SenderBase and Anti-Spam
Using Anti-Virus and Outbreak Filters
Using Mail Polices
Using Content Filters
Using Message Filters
Preventing Data Loss
Using LDAP
Describing SMTP Session Authentication
Using Email Authentication
Using Email Encryption
Administering the Cisco Email Security Appliance
Using System Quarantines and Delivery Methods
Centralising Management Using Clusters
Testing and Troubleshooting

Lab Outline

Verify and Test Cisco ESA Configuration
Advanced Malware in Attachments (Macro Detection)
Protect Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs Beneath Shortened URLs
Protect Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs Inside Attachments
Intelligently Handle Unscannable Messages
Leverage AMP Cloud Intelligence Via Pre-Classification Enhancement
Integrate Cisco ESA with AMP Console
Prevent Threats with Anti-Virus Protection
Applying Outbreak Filters
Configure Attachment Scanning
Configure Outbound Data Loss Prevention
Integrate Cisco ESA with LDAP and Enable the LDAP Accept Query
Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM)
Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
Forged Email Detection
Perform Basic Administration
Configure the Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager for Tracking and Reporting

Prerequisites

Knowledge and skills you must have before attending this course:

Transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) services, including domain name system (DNS), secure shell (SSH), file transfer protocol (FTP), simple network management protocol (SNMP), hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), and hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS)
Experience with IP routing

To fully benefit, you should also have one or more of these basic technical competencies:

Cisco certification (CCNA or higher)
Relevant industry certification such as (ISC)², CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), or ISACA
Windows expertise: Microsoft, CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)

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Terms & Conditions

The supply of this course by Lumify Work is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.