Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (SCOR) Course Overview
The Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (SCOR) v1.0 course helps you prepare for the Cisco? CCNP? Security and CCIE? Security certifications and for senior-level security roles.
In this course, you will master the skills and technologies you need to implement core Cisco security solutions to provide advanced threat protection against cybersecurity attacks. You will learn security for networks, cloud and content, endpoint protection, secure network access, visibility, and enforcements. You will get extensive hands-on experience deploying Cisco Firepower? Next-Generation Firewall and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall; configuring access control policies, mail policies, and 802.1X Authentication; and more. You will get introductory practice on Cisco Stealthwatch? Enterprise and Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud threat detection features.
This course, including the self-paced material, helps prepare you to take the exam, Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (350-701 SCOR), which leads to the new CCNP Security, CCIE Security, and the Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core certifications.
Course details
Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Describe information security concepts and strategies within the network
- Describe common TCP/IP, network application, and endpoint attacks
- Describe how various network security technologies work together to guard against attacks
- Implement access control on Cisco ASA appliance and Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall
- Describe and implement basic email content security features and functions provided by Cisco Email Security Appliance
- Describe and implement web content security features and functions provided by Cisco Web Security Appliance
- Describe Cisco Umbrella? security capabilities, deployment models, policy management, and Investigate console
- Introduce VPNs and describe cryptography solutions and algorithms
- Describe Cisco secure site-to-site connectivity solutions and explain how to deploy Cisco Internetwork Operating System (Cisco IOS?) Virtual Tunnel Interface (VTI)-based point-to-point IPsec VPNs, and point-to-point IPsec VPN on the Cisco ASA and Cisco Firepower Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW)
- Describe and deploy Cisco secure remote access connectivity solutions and describe how to configure 802.1X and Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authentication
- Provide basic understanding of endpoint security and describe Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) for Endpoints architecture and basic features
- Examine various defenses on Cisco devices that protect the control and management plane
- Configure and verify Cisco IOS software Layer 2 and Layer 3 data plane controls
- Describe Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise and Stealthwatch Cloud solutions
- Describe basics of cloud computing and common cloud attacks and how to secure cloud environment
Outline
* This section is self-study material that can be done at your own pace if you are taking the instructor-led version of this course.
Lab outline
- Configure Network Settings and NAT on Cisco ASA
- Configure Cisco ASA Access Control Policies
- Configure Cisco Firepower NGFW NAT
- Configure Cisco Firepower NGFW Access Control Policy
- Configure Cisco Firepower NGFW Discovery and IPS Policy
- Configure Cisco NGFW Malware and File Policy
- Configure Listener, Host Access Table (HAT), and Recipient Access Table (RAT) on Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)
- Configure Mail Policies
- Configure Proxy Services, Authentication, and HTTPS Decryption
- Enforce Acceptable Use Control and Malware Protection
- Examine the Umbrella Dashboard
- Examine Cisco Umbrella Investigate
- Explore DNS Ransomware Protection by Cisco Umbrella
- Configure Static VTI Point-to-Point IPsec IKEv2 Tunnel
- Configure Point-to-Point VPN between the Cisco ASA and Cisco Firepower NGFW
- Configure Remote Access VPN on the Cisco Firepower NGFW
- Explore Cisco AMP for Endpoints
- Perform Endpoint Analysis Using AMP for Endpoints Console
- Explore File Ransomware Protection by Cisco AMP for Endpoints Console
- Explore Cisco Stealthwatch Enterprise v6.9.3
- Explore Cognitive Threat Analytics (CTA) in Stealthwatch Enterprise v7.0
- Explore the Cisco Cloudlock Dashboard and User Security
- Explore Cisco Cloudlock Application and Data Security
- Explore Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud
- Explore Stealthwatch Cloud Alert Settings, Watchlists, and Sensors
- Explain common threats against on-premises and cloud environments
- Compare common security vulnerabilities such as software bugs, weak and/or hardcoded passwords, SQL injection, missing encryption, buffer overflow, path traversal, cross-site scripting/forgery
- Describe functions of the cryptography components such as hashing, encryption, PKI, SSL, IPsec, NAT-T IPv4 for IPsec, pre-shared key and certificate based authorization
- Compare site-to-site VPN and remote access VPN deployment types such as sVTI, IPsec, Cryptomap, DMVPN, FLEXVPN including high availability considerations, and AnyConnect
- Describe security intelligence authoring, sharing, and consumption
- Explain the role of the endpoint in protecting humans from phishing and social engineering attacks
- Explain North Bound and South Bound APIs in the SDN architecture
- Explain DNAC APIs for network provisioning, optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Interpret basic Python scripts used to call Cisco Security appliances APIs
- Compare network security solutions that provide intrusion prevention and firewall capabilities
- Describe deployment models of network security solutions and architectures that provide intrusion prevention and firewall capabilities
- Describe the components, capabilities, and benefits of NetFlow and Flexible NetFlow records
- Configure and verify network infrastructure security methods (router, switch, wireless)
- Implement segmentation, access control policies, AVC, URL filtering, and malware protection
- Implement management options for network security solutions such as intrusion prevention and perimeter security (Single vs. multidevice manager, in-band vs. out-ofband, CDP, DNS, SCP, SFTP, and DHCP security and risks)
- Configure AAA for device and network access (authentication and authorization, TACACS+, RADIUS and RADIUS flows, accounting, and dACL)
- Configure secure network management of perimeter security and infrastructure devices (secure device management, SNMPv3, views, groups, users, authentication, and encryption, secure logging, and NTP with authentication)
- Configure and verify site-to-site VPN and remote access VPN
- Identify security solutions for cloud environments
- Compare the customer vs. provider security responsibility for the different cloud service models
- Describe the concept of DevSecOps (CI/CD pipeline, container orchestration, and security
- Implement application and data security in cloud environments
- Identify security capabilities, deployment models, and policy management to secure the cloud
- Configure cloud logging and monitoring methodologies
- Describe application and workload security concepts
- Implement traffic redirection and capture methods
- Describe web proxy identity and authentication including transparent user identification
- Compare the components, capabilities, and benefits of local and cloud-based email and web solutions (ESA, CES, WSA)
- Configure and verify web and email security deployment methods to protect onpremises and remote users (inbound and outbound controls and policy management)
- Configure and verify email security features such as SPAM filtering, antimalware filtering, DLP, blacklisting, and email encryption
- Configure and verify secure internet gateway and web security features such as blacklisting, URL filtering, malware scanning, URL categorization, web application filtering, and TLS decryption
- Describe the components, capabilities, and benefits of Cisco Umbrella
- Configure and verify web security controls on Cisco Umbrella (identities, URL content settings, destination lists, and reporting)
- Compare Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) and Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) solutions
- Explain antimalware, retrospective security, Indication of Compromise (IOC), antivirus, dynamic file analysis, and endpoint-sourced telemetry
- Configure and verify outbreak control and quarantines to limit infection
- Describe justifications for endpoint-based security
- Describe the value of endpoint device management and asset inventory such as MDM
- Describe the uses and importance of a multifactor authentication (MFA) strategy
- Describe endpoint posture assessment solutions to ensure endpoint security
- Explain the importance of an endpoint patching strategy
- Describe identity management and secure network access concepts such as guest services, profiling, posture assessment and BYOD
- Configure and verify network access device functionality such as 802.1X, MAB, WebAuth
- Describe network access with CoA
- Describe the benefits of device compliance and application control
- Explain exfiltration techniques (DNS tunneling, HTTPS, email, FTP/SSH/SCP/SFTP, ICMP, Messenger, IRC, NTP)
- Describe the benefits of network telemetry
- Describe the components, capabilities, and benefits of these security products and solutions