Blue Coat - Certified Proxy Administrator

Course Overview

The Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator (BCCPA) Course is intended for students who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat products.

This course is a revised version of the course formerly known as Proxy Fundamentals. You should not take the BCCPA course, if you have already taken the Proxy Fundamentals Course. Instead, you should take the BCCPA Upgrade course, which covers new material not included in the Proxy Fundamentals.

Audience

The course is intended for networking professionals new to Blue Coat appliances, Security auditors and architects, Systems engineers and Post-sale support technicians.

Skills Gained

Delegates attending this course will be able to:

• Understand how Blue Coat appliances can be deployed and installed.
• Understand how authenticate users through the Blue Coat appliance.
• Understand how to monitor http traffic for web based threats
• Understand how to filter HTTP traffic for Viruses using ICAP servers - ProxyAV
• Understand how to set-up a security policy using VPM
• Understand how to enable reporting and logging

Course Outline

The BCCPA Course focuses on Blue Coat's most recent operating system.

• HTTP protocol
• ProxySG deployment strategies, and initial setup.
• Management Console
• Visual Policy Manager
• Authentication
• Policy management
• URL filtering
• Effective strategies for managing downloads, instant messaging, and peer-to-peer applications.
• Access logging
• Reporter, Reverse proxy deployments, and ProxyAV are also covered in detail.

Suggested follow on courses

This course is a pre-requisite for Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional course.

Blue Coat - Certified Proxy Administrator / BLUE-CPA