Course Duration: 4 Days

Multifaceted, highly dynamic applications and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) workplaces have become the norm. And with them comes the challenge to balance productivity with security Cisco has the industry’s first adaptive, threat-focused next-generation IPS (NGIPS) designed for a new era of threat and advanced malware protection.

This 4-days workshop is designed to help users understand the basic fundamentals of ASA 5500 series and to help customers to understand the integration of the Cisco FirePOWER Next-Generation IPS managed devices with the Cisco FireSIGHT Management Center for a new adaptive, threat-focused NGIPS solution. It delivers an integrated threat defense across the entire attack continuum — before, during, and after an attack. You should at the end of this workshop feel confident to go with Cisco FirePOWER Next-Generation IPS (NGIPS) solution to address all your network security requirements.

After completing this course you should be able to:

• Understand and articulate the features and benefits of Cisco's Next Generation Adaptive Security Appliances
• Configuring ASA and basic rules
• Overview of Cisco FirePOWER Next-Generation IPS (NGIPS) solution
• Understand the capabilities of the Cisco FirePOWER NGIPS
• Describe how to deploy and manage Cisco FirePOWER NGIPS devices
• Explore the FireSIGHT Management Center using the Context Explorer
• Describe the various detection technologies used in the FireSIGHT system
• Navigate the user interface and administrative features of the FireSIGHT system, including reporting functionality to properly assess threats
• Use Access Control, File Policies and Intrusion Policies to control traffic within a network
• Analyse files to determine their level of threat and trajectory within a network
• Integrate Active Directory with FireSIGHT and User Agent for User based policies
• Understand the Tuning capability
• Integrated SSL Decryption
• URL-based Security Intelligence
• Application Detectors