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Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance Course Overview
Vinsys' Cisco SESA v3.1 training covers deploying/using Cisco Email Security Appliance for protecting email systems against phishing, business email compromise or ransomware, and streamlining your email security policy management.
It brings knowledge/skills for implementing, troubleshooting, and administering Cisco Email Security Appliance, including key capabilities from advanced malware protection, spam blocking, anti-virus protection, outbreak filtering, encryption, to quarantines and data loss prevention.
The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance course prepares you for the 300-720 exam, required for Cisco Certified Specialist-Email Content Security and CCNP Security certifications, and also lets you earn 24 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards the recertification
Course Curriculum
Audience
- Individuals willing to acquire leading-edge career skills focused on enterprise security.
- Security Engineers, Security Administrators, Security Architects, Operations Engineers, Network Engineers, Network Administrators, Network/Security Technicians, Network Managers, System Designers, and Cisco Integrators/Partners
- Those willing to complete Cisco Certified Specialist-Email Content Security and CCNP Security credentials.
Eligibility
- Knowledge of TCP/IP services, covering Domain Name System (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP, and HTTPS.
- Experience with IP routing.
- At least one of the following basic technical competencies:
- Microsoft Specialist, Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), CompTIA A+, Network+ and Server+.
- Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA 1/CCNA 2).
- Cisco CCENT certification or higher.
- Relevant industry credentials like (ISC)2, CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, GIAC, and ISACA.
Objectives
- Learning to describe/administer the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA).
- Controlling sender/recipient domains.
- Controlling spam with Talos SenderBase and anti-spam.
- Using anti-virus, outbreak filters, mail policies, content filters, and message filters for enforcing email policies.
- Preventing data loss.
- Performing LDAP queries.
- Authenticating Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) sessions and email.
- Encrypting email.
- Using system quarantines and delivery methods.
- Performing centralized management using clusters.
- Testing and troubleshooting.
About the Certification - 300-720 SESA : Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance
Cisco Certified Specialist-Email Content Security, a specialist credential, approves your knowledge of Cisco Email Security Appliance, from administration, spam control and antispam, message filters, data loss prevention, LDAP, email authentication/encryption, to system quarantines and delivery methods. The following exam is necessary:
- 300-720 SESA.
CCNP Security, a professional accreditation, certifies your or your teams' skills with security solutions. The following concentration and core exams must be cleared:
- 300-720 SESA.
- 350-701 SCOR.
Training Options
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- 5-days Instructor-led Online Training
- Experienced Subject Matter Experts
- Approved and Quality Ensured Training Material
- 24*7 Leaner Assistance And Support
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Customized to your team's need
- Blended Learning Delivery Model (Self-Paced E-Learning And/Or Instructor-Led Options)
- Course, Category, And All-Access Pricing
- Enterprise-Class Learning Management System (LMS)
- Enhanced Reporting For Individuals And Teams
- 24x7 Teaching Assistance And Support
Course Outline
- Cisco Email Security Appliance Overview.
- Technology Use Case.
- Cisco Email Security Appliance Data Sheet.
- SMTP Overview.
- Email Pipeline Overview.
- Installation Scenarios.
- Initial Cisco Email Security Appliance Configuration.
- Centralizing Services on a Cisco Content Security Management Appliance.
- Releasing Notes for AsyncOS 11.x
- Public/Private Listeners.
- Configuring the Gateway to Receive Email.
- Host Access Table Overview.
- Recipient Access Table Overview.
- Configuring Routing/Delivery Features.
- SenderBase Overview.
- Anti-Spam.
- Managing Graymail.
- Protecting Against Malicious/Undesirable URLs.
- File Reputation Filtering/File Analysis.
- Bounce Verification.
- Anti-Virus Scanning Overview.
- Sophos/McAfee Anti-Virus Filtering.
- Configuring the Appliance to Scan for Viruses.
- Outbreak Filters.
- How the Outbreak Filters Feature Works.
- Managing Outbreak Filters.
Email Security Manager Overview.
Mail Policies Overview.
Handling Incoming/Outgoing Messages Differently.
Matching Users to a Mail Policy.
Message Splintering.
Configuring Mail Policies.
- Content Filters Overview.
- Content Filter Conditions/Actions.
- Filtering Messages Based on Content.
- Text Resources Overview.
- Using/Testing the Content Dictionaries Filter Rules.
- Understanding Text Resources.
- Text Resource Management.
- Using Text Resources.
- Message Filters Overview.
- Components of a Message Filter.
- Message Filter Processing/Rules/Actions.
- Attachment Scanning.
- Examples of Attachment Scanning Message Filters.
- Using the CLI to Manage Message Filters.
- Message Filter Examples.
- Configuring Scan Behavior.
- Overview of the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Scanning Process.
- Setting Up Data Loss Prevention.
- Policies for Data Loss Prevention.
- Message Actions.
- Updating the DLP Engine/Content Matching Classifiers.
- Overview of LDAP.
- Working with LDAP.
- Using LDAP Queries.
- Authenticating End-Users of the Spam Quarantine.
- Configuring External LDAP Authentication for Users.
- Testing Servers/Queries.
- Using LDAP for Directory Harvest Attack Prevention.
- Spam Quarantine Alias Consolidation Queries.
- Validating Recipients Using an SMTP Server.
- Configuring AsyncOS for SMTP Authentication.
- Authenticating SMTP Sessions Using Client Certificates.
- Checking the Validity of a Client Certificate.
- Authenticating User Using LDAP Directory.
- Authenticating SMTP Connection Over Transport Layer Security (TLS).
- Using a Client Certificate.
- Establishing a TLS Connection from the Appliance.
- Updating a List of Revoked Certificates.
- Email Authentication Overview.
- Configuring DomainKeys/DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signing.
- Verifying Incoming Messages Using DKIM.
- Overview of Sender Policy Framework (SPF)/SIDF Verification.
- Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance.
- DMARC Verification.
- Forged Email Detection.
- Overview of Cisco Email Encryption.
- Encrypting Messages.
- Determining Which Messages to Encrypt.
- Inserting Encryption Headers into Messages.
- Encrypting Communication with Other Message Transfer Agents (MTAs).
- Working with Certificates.
- Managing Lists of Certificate Authorities.
- Enabling TLS on a Listener’s Host Access Table (HAT).
- Enabling TLS/Certificate Verification on Delivery.
- Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Security Services.
- Describing Quarantines.
- Spamming Quarantine.
- Setting Up the Centralized Spam Quarantine.
- Using Safelists/Blocklists to Control Email Delivery Based on Sender.
- Configuring Spam Management Features for End Users.
- Managing Messages in the Spam Quarantine.
- Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines.
- Managing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines.
- Working with Messages in Policy, Virus, or Outbreak Quarantines.
- Delivery Methods.
- Overview of Centralized Management Using Clusters.
- Cluster Organization.
- Creating/Joining a Cluster.
- Managing Clusters.
- Cluster Communication.
- Loading a Configuration in Clustered Appliances.
- Best Practices.
- Debugging Mail Flow Using Test Messages: Trace.
- Using the Listener to Test the Appliance.
- Troubleshooting the Network/Listener/Email Delivery/Performance.
- Web Interface Appearance and Rendering Issues.
- Responding to Alerts.
- Troubleshooting Hardware Issues.
- Working with Technical Support.
- Modeling Specifications for Large Enterprises.
- Modeling Specifications for Midsize Enterprises/Small-to-Midsize Enterprises or Branch Offices.
- Cisco Email Security Appliance Model Specifications for Virtual Appliances.
- Packages/Licenses.
- Verifying/Testing Cisco ESA Configuration.
- Performing Basic Administration.
- Advanced Malware in Attachments (Macro Detection).
- Protecting Against Malicious/Undesirable URLs Beneath Shortened URLs.
- Protecting Against Malicious/Undesirable URLs Inside Attachments.
- Intelligently Handling Unscannable Messages.
- Leveraging AMP Cloud Intelligence via Pre-Classification Enhancement.
- Integrating Cisco ESA with AMP Console.
- Preventing Threats with Anti-Virus Protection.
- Applying Content/Outbreak Filters.
- Configuring Attachment Scanning and Outbound Data Loss Prevention.
- Integrating Cisco ESA with LDAP and Enabling the LDAP Accept Query.
- Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM).
- Sender Policy Framework (SPF).
- Forged Email Detection.
- Configuring the Cisco SMA for Tracking/Reporting.
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FAQ's
Vinsys is a globally admired Corporate and Individual training provider with 25+ years of verifiable experience. Our instructor-led online courses, internationally-acclaimed expertise, customizable skill-development programs, and 24*7 learner support ensure the most comprehensive upskilling arrangement, a must for capitalizing on valuable Cisco Security opportunities.
Yes, these are two entirely different training. SISE v3.0 focuses on the Cisco Identity Services Engine, while the SESA v3.1 offering from Cisco addresses its Email Security Appliance.
Please note, 300-720 is merely a concentration exam. Such exams allow you to customize your credentials as per your chosen technical areas of focus. To achieve the CCNP Security accreditation, you must also clear the 350-701 SCOR core exam.
300-710 SNCF, 300-715 SISE, 300-725 SWSA, 300-730 SVPN or 300-735 SAUTO
No, only 300-720 SESA is sufficient.
Content and Message Filters & Email Authentication and Encryption (20% each).
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