ISS: Network Intrusion Prevention Appliance (G Series)

Course Overview

The Network Intrusion Prevention Appliance course provides concepts, methods and practices necessary to successfully manage the Proventia G400/G2000. The course focuses on hands-on exercises supported by demonstrations, presentations and lecture.

Audience

Network and security professionals evaluating, implementing, managing, or monitoring an environment that includes Proventia intrusion prevention appliances (G400/2000).

Skills Gained

Starting with an introduction to intrusion protection, students learn about the appliance's operational modes and how to properly deploy the appliance in a high availability environment. Students also learn how to install, manage and configure G400/G2000 appliances, and how to monitor and analyse security events using both the SiteProtector Console and Proventia Manager.

Examinations

N/A

Prerequisites

• Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Windows platforms.

Either one of the following two situations applies:

• The training is NOT attended together with the 'Introduction to SiteProtector' training: the attendees must have a valid Introduction to SiteProtector certification.
• The training is attended together with the 'Introduction to SiteProtector' training

Course Outline

Key Instructional Focus and Objectives

• Introduce intrusion protection concepts and the Proventia G appliance.
• Connect the Proventia G appliance to your network.
• Define the operation modes available to the appliance along with the networking considerations associated with each mode.
• Configure the Proventia G appliance in a high availability environment.
• Restore the Proventia G appliance and configure the initial appliance settings.
• Use Proventia Manager to configure the Proventia G appliance to communicate with and be managed by SiteProtector.
• Manage Proventia G appliances.
• Describe predefined Proventia G responses.
• Configure response objects.
• Configure Proventia G policies, including various types of security events.
• Use Proventia Manager to manage and monitor a Proventia G appliance.

Key Hands-on Lab Focus and Objectives

• Restore the Proventia G appliance.
• Configure passwords and initial appliance settings.
• Register Proventia G appliances in SiteProtector.
• Update the Proventia G appliance.
• Tune advanced parameters at the device level.
• Configure response objects.
• Create firewall rules, connection events, and protection domains.

Follow On Courses

A list of courses or topic areas that might suitably follow having successfully completed this training programme.

ISS: Network Intrusion Prevention Appliance (G Series) / ISS-PG