Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA)

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.

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

1. Verify and Test Cisco ESA Configuration
2. Perform Basic Administration
3. Advanced Malware in Attachments (Macro Detection)
4. Protect against Malicious or Undesirable URLs Beneath Shortened URLs
5. Protect Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs Inside Attachments
6. Intelligently Handle Unscannable Messages
7. Leverage AMP Cloud Intelligence Via Pre-Classification Enhancement
8. Integrate Cisco ESA with AMP Console
9. Prevent Threats with Anti-Virus Filters
10. Applying Content and Outbreak Filters
11. Configure attachment Scanning
12. Configure Outbound Data Loss Prevention
13. Integrate Cisco ESA with LDAP and Enable the LDAP Accept Query
14. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
15. Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
16. Forged Email Detection
17. Configure the Cisco SMA for Tracking and Reporting