Security: Advanced Security for Field Engineers

Course Overview

This ILT course covers claims and evidence identified for the new Advanced Security FE Specialization. The Advanced Security Field Engineer training is part of the Cisco FE program. Emerging network security threats, such as viruses, worms, and spy ware, continue to plague customers and drain organizations of money, productivity, and opportunity. Cisco's Self Defending Network solutions can dramatically improve the ability of network to automatically identify, prevent and adapt to security threats.

Audience

• Employee
• Channel Partners/Resellers

Skills Gained

• Introduce Cisco NAC components and posture validation process flow.
• Explain the procedures required to configure and administer Cisco Secure ACS for Cisco NAC.
• Explain the commands required to configure and administer a Cisco router for use as a Cisco NAC Network Access Device.
• Explain the processes required to configure and administer Cisco NAC agents.
• Use CANAC Manager to monitor operational information for CCA deployment.
• Use Administration Module of the CANAC Manager to configure internal administration settings.
• Describe the MARS solution.
• Cover the basic physical installation process.
• Add Reporting devices into MARS appliance.
• Configure security devices.
• Configure appliance to perform Incident Investigation and attack mitigation.
• Explain how to create, view and save a long-duration query and reports on the MARS appliance.
• Configure the MARS appliance to send an alert.
• Describe and configure rules that detect interesting patterns of network activity and anomalous network behavior.
• Use management features in the MARS appliance to assign event, addressing, service, and user information.
• Configure hardware maintenance chores on MARS appliance.

Prerequisites

Global Channels Systems Engineers

Course Outline

• Implementing Cisco NAC
• Implementing CANAC
• MARS Introduction and Installation

Security: Advanced Security for Field Engineers / ASFE