Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA)
The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) training 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.
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Prerequisites:
The basic technical competencies you are expected to have before attending this training are:
- Cisco certification, such as Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Cybersecurity certification or higher
- Relevant industry certification, such as (ISC)2, CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), and ISACA
- Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA©_ 1 and CCNA 2)
- Windows expertise, such as Microsoft [Microsoft Specialist, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)], and CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)
The knowledge and skills you are expected to have before attending this training are:
- 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
Target Audience:
- 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 Objectives:
- 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 centralized management using clusters
- Test and troubleshoot
Course Outline:
- 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
- Centralizing 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
