Overview

This 5-day instructor-led course introduces the new ASA 5505 and 5550 and covers important new ASA and PIX Security Appliance 7.2 features. This course takes a task-oriented approach to teaching the skills to deploy, configure, and administer the Cisco ASA and PIX Security Appliances. 

Who Should Attend

• Channel Partner / Reseller 
• Customer 
• Employee

Cisco Career Certifications

This course is part of the following Certifications:

• CCSP (Cisco Certified Security Professional)

Course Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to: 

• Describe the general functionality of firewalls and security appliances 
• Choose the most appropriate security appliance and licensing for a given scenario 
• Configure the security appliance for basic network connectivity 
• Perform address translation on a security appliance 
• Configure security appliance access control 
• Describe and configure the object grouping feature of Cisco security appliances 
• Define, configure, and monitor AAA in Cisco security appliances 
• Describe and configure the switching and routing functionality that your security appliance provides 
• Describe and configure a security appliance modular policy 
• Describe and configure security appliance advanced protocol handling 
• Configure Cisco security appliances for VPN connectivity 
• Configure security appliances for secure remote access 
• Configure the Cisco security appliances to support the WebVPN feature set 
• Configure Cisco security appliances to run in transparent firewall mode 
• Configure the security appliance to support multiple contexts 
• Implement and configure failover in a network 
• Configure and monitor security appliances with ASDM 
• Initialize a Cisco ASA AIP SSM and CSC SSM 
• Secure and upgrade system access to the security appliance and recover from problems

Course Outline

This 5-day course is geared towards obtaining hands-on experience only; therefore, there is no exam.

• Course Introduction 
• Cisco Security Appliance Technology and Features 
• Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance and PIX Security Appliance Families 
• Getting Started with Cisco Security Appliances 
• Translations and Connections 
• Access Control Lists and Content Filtering 
• Object Grouping 
• Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting 
• Switching and Routing on the ASA 
• The Cisco Modular Policy Framework 
• Advanced Protocol Handling 
• Virtual Private Network Configuration 
• Configuring Security Appliance Remote Access Using Cisco Easy VPN 
• Configuring ASA for WebVPN 
• Configuring Transparent Firewall 
• Configuring Security Contexts 
• Failover 
• Cisco Adaptive Security Device Manager 
• Getting Started with Security Services Modules 
• Managing the Security Appliance

Prerequisites

Students who attend this advanced course must have experience in configuring Cisco IOS software and have met the following prerequisites:

• CCNA Certification or the equivalent knowledge
• Basic knowledge of the Windows operating system
• A strong familiarity with networking and security terms and concept

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