Cisco IronPort C-Series: Securing Your Email with Cisco IronPort C-Series: Part I

London (W1)

15/03/10

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1,250

London (W1)

12/07/10

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1,250

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Windsor (SL4)

10/05/10

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1,250

Wokingham (RG41)

26/04/10

£

1,150

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Course Overview

This two-day training course provides a thorough foundation for how to successfully install, configure, and administer IronPort email security appliances. Attendees receive in-depth instruction on the most commonly used product features, with an emphasis on:

• How to deploy IronPort email security appliances in a typical enterprise email environment, including "best practices" for configuration, operation, and system administration.
• How to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot the flow of email through IronPort email security appliances.
• How to configure access control policies to eliminate threats at the perimeter, based on the identity and trustworthiness of the sender.
• How to create content filters to implement and enforce corporate email policies.
• How to configure IronPort email security appliances to detect and handle unwanted spam and viruses.
• How to use IronPort's reputation-based services, SenderBase and Virus Outbreak Filters, to increase the security of your email network.
• Email encryption to secure email.
• Extensive lab exercises provide attendees with skills for installing, configuring and administering IronPort email security appliances.

At the end of the course, attendees will possess a working knowledge of how to use IronPort email security appliances to successfully manage and troubleshoot email traffic entering and leaving the enterprise network.

Audience

• Enterprise messaging managers and system administrators
• Email system designers and architects
• Network managers responsible for messaging implementation

Prerequisites

It is assumed that attendees possess the following background knowledge and skills:

• A moderate knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, including IP addressing and subnetting, static IP routing and DNS.
• Experience with Internet-based messaging, including SMTP, Internet message formats, and MIME message format.
• Familiarity with command line interface (CLI) and graphical user interface (GUI).
• Previous experience with email security would be helpful.

Course Outline

Module 1 : IronPort Overview

• Product / technology overview

Module 2 : The Email Pipeline

• SMTP 101
• IronPort Email filtering methods

Module 3 : Installing the IronPort Appliance

• Host access table (HAT) and recipient access table (RAT)

Module 4 : Configuring Listeners

• Listeners
• Mail Flow Policies
• Host Access Table
• Recipient Access Table
• SMTP Routes

Module 5 . Securing Your Email

• Tracking incoming and outgoing mail
• Monitoring system status
• The work queue

Module 6 : Content Filters

• Embedded Object Detection
• Protected File Detection
• Weighted Content Matching
• Smart Identifiers

Module 7 : Anti-Spam

• SenderBase Reputation Filters
• Anti-Spam configuration
• IronPort C-Series Configuration

Day Two Agenda

Module 8 : Anti-Virus

• Anti-Virus configuration
• Virus Outbreak Filters and virus quarantine

Module 9 : Quarantines & Bounce Profiles

• Quarantine Management
• IronPort Spam Quarantine
• Bounce Profiles

Module 10 : Email Encryption

• Encryption Profile
• Associating Content Filters with the Encrypt Action

Module 11 : Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting tools and best practices
• Log file contents and log administration

Module 12 : System Administration

• Support tools
• System backup and recovery
• Software upgrades