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Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Enforcement Agents, Data Flow Mapping, and Advanced Policy Deployment, CSWADV, is a 5-day course exploring telemetry data, the flows corpus, and how Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Agent provides enforcement. This course will provide the details and hands-on activities necessary to successfully deploy, manage, and troubleshoot policies in Cisco Secure Workload.

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What You'll Learn

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

  • Describe how the Cisco Secure Workload Agents work to enforce security policy
  • Describe how to deploy the Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Agent
  • Describe how to Manage and Troubleshoot Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Agent policies
  • Review administrative and management tasks necessary to operate, support and manage Cisco Secure Workload
  • Describe how Cisco Secure Workload telemetry data is utilized in the Flows Corpus
  • Construct effective policies based on discovered flows and Application Dependency Mapping (ADM)

Who Should Attend

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Prerequisites

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

  • Knowledge of cloud and (virtual) data center architecture or cloud basic networking concepts
  • Familiarity with Cisco basic networking security concepts and application security concepts
  • High-level familiarity with basic telemetry protocols and Big Data analytics

Learning Journey

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Module 1: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Agent

  • How the Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Agent Enforces Firewall Rules
  • Deploying and Managing Linux Enforcement Agents
  • Deploying and Managing Windows Enforcement Agents
  • Deploying and Managing AIX Enforcement Agents

Module 2: Cisco Secure Workload Enforcement Agent Components, Messaging, and Interaction

  • Enforcement Front End
  • Firewall and Catch-all Rules
  • The Preserve Rules Option
  • Agent Config Intents
  • Stateful Enforcement

Module 3: Enforcement Agent UI Configurations and Troubleshooting

  • Agent UI Configuration
  • Monitoring Agents
  • Platform Specific Enforcement Features and Requirements
  • Known Limitations
  • Troubleshooting Inbound and Outbound Firewall Rules

Module 4: Secure Connector, Edge and Ingest Appliances

  • Secure Connector Overview
  • Secure Connector features and configuration
  • Edge Appliance Overview
  • Edge Appliance configuration
  • Ingest Appliance Overview
  • Ingest appliance features and configurations

Module 5: Application Dependency Mapping

  • Application Management Workflow Cycle
  • Application Insight
  • ADM Process
  • ADM Run Results
  • Cluster Confidence

Module 6: Cisco Secure Workload Policy Analysis

  • Enable Policy Analysis
  • Live Policy Analysis
  • Backdated Policy Experiments
  • Quick Policy Analysis
  • Diagnosis Using Policy Analysis

Module 7: Cisco Secure Workload Analytics Policy Enforcement Overview

  • Policy Global Ordering & Conflict Resolution
  • Scope Priorities
  • Troubleshooting Policy Enforcement

Module 8: Cisco Secure Workload Flow Search

  • Understanding the Flow Corpus
  • Using Scopes to Filter Results
  • Searching with Conjunctions
  • Correlating Flow Data with Hosts and Processes
  • Leveraging Annotations

Module 9: Using Secure Workload Forensics

  • Forensic Signals
  • Configuring Forensics
  • Forensics Visualization and Alerts
  • Forensics Scoring
  • Network and Process Hash Anomaly Detection

Module 10: Cisco Secure Workload Apps and API

  • App Store
  • User Apps
  • Visualize Data Sources
  • Bring your own Data
  • OpenAPI

Lab Outline:

Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:

Lab 1: Cisco Secure Workload GUI Familiarization

  • Task 1: Log in to Cisco Secure Workload and Explore the Security Dashboard
  • Task 2: Explore the Visibility Dashboard
  • Task 3: Explore the Visibility Flow Search Options
  • Task 4: Explore the Visibility Inventory Search Options

Lab 2: Software Agent Installation

  • Task 1: Configure Agent Intents
  • Task 2: Install the Enforcement Agent for Linux
  • Task 3: Install the Enforcement Agent for Windows
  • Task 4: Monitor Enforcement Agent Status

Lab 3: Importing Context Data

  • Task 1: Upload User-Defined Annotations
  • Task 2: View User-Defined Annotations
  • Task 3: Search by User-Defined Annotations

Lab 4: Scopes

  • Task 1: Navigate Scopes
  • Task 2: Create a Scope
  • Task 3: Edit a Scope

Lab 5: Application Dependency Mapping with Agents

  • Task 1: Create an Application Workspace
  • Task 2: Examine Conversations
  • Task 3: Examine Endpoint Clusters
  • Task 4: Create an Application View

Lab 6: Implementing Policy

  • Task 1: Gather IP Address Information
  • Task 2: Create the Server Load Balancing Information File
  • Task 3: Create an Application Workspace
  • Task 4: Review Day 0 and Automated Policies

Lab 7: Policy Enforcement and Compliance

  • Task 1: Enable Policy Enforcement and Compliance
  • Task 2: Test Policy Enforcement and Compliance
  • Task 3: Monitor and Troubleshoot Policy Enforcement Status and Compliance

Lab 8: Workload Security

  • Task 1: Review Packages and CVE Reports
  • Task 2: Review Policy Enforcement
  • Task 3: Review Rule Order and Efficiency

Lab 9: Secure Connector, Edge and Ingest Appliances

  • Task 1: Review Secure Connector deployment and configurations
  • Task 2: Review Edge and Ingest Appliance deployment and configurations

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