Course Description
The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) v3.1 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.
Required exam | Recommended training |
---|---|
300-720 SESA |
Securing Email with Cisco Web Email Security Appliance (SESA) |
Certification Track | CCNP Security Certification |
SCOR (Core) + SESA (Concentration elective) = CCNP Security Certification |
Course Information
Length: 4 day
Format: Lecture and Lab
Delivery Method: Virtual / Onsite
Max. Capacity: 16
Learning Objectives
- Describe the Cisco Email Security Appliance 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 to enforce email policies Prevent data loss
- Perform LDAP queries
- Authenticate SMTP sessions
- Authenticate email
- Encrypt email
- Use system quarantines and delivery methods Perform centralized management using clusters Test and troubleshoot
Who Should Attend
- Network or security technicians, administrators, engineers or managers responsible for web and email security
- Security architects and system designers
- Network administrators and operations engineers
- Cisco partners, resellers, or employees responsible for supporting Cisco email security solutions
- Cisco channel partners who are seeking to maintain, optimize, and troubleshoot a Cisco ESA
- Channel partner field engineers who are seeking to be trained and certified on the Email Security for Field Engineer (700-280 ESFE) exam
Prerequisites
A student must possess one or more of the following basic technical competencie
- Cisco certification (Cisco CCENT certification or higher)
- Relevant industry certification, such as (ISC)2
- Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA 1 and CCNA 2)
- Windows expertise: Microsoft (Microsoft Specialist, MCSA, MCSE), CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)
The knowledge and skills that a student must have before attending this course are as follows:
- TCP/IP services, including DNS, SSH, FTP, SNMP, HTTP, and HTTPs, is assumed
- Experience with IP routing is assumed
Labs
- Verify and Test Cisco ESA Configuration
- Perform Basic Administration
- 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 Filters
- Applying Content and Outbreak Filters
- Configure attachment Scanning
- Configure Outbound Data Loss Prevention
- Integrate Cisco ESA with LDAP and Enable the LDAP Accept Query
- DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
- Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
- Forged Email Detection
- Configure the Cisco SMA for Tracking and Reporting