Cisco Training - Cisco Email Security

Introduction

This intense and practical course will provide you with the skills and knowledge to understand how to effectively install, configure, and administer Cisco IronPort email security appliances.

Pre-Requisites

• There are pre-requisites needed for this course. Please see FAQ’s

Who should attend?

• This course is suitable for those who work with in-going and outgoing emails and need security training

What you will learn?

• Once you have completed the Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance Part 1 course you will be able to:
• How to deploy IronPort email security appliances in a typical enterprise email environment, including "best practices" for configuration, operation, and system administration
• How to direct, observe, and troubleshoot the flow of email through IronPort email security appliances
• How to arrange access control strategies to abolish threats at the perimeter, basedon the identity and trustworthiness of the sender
• How to generate content filters to implement and apply corporate email policies.
• How to arrange IronPort email security applications to detect and handle unwelcome 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.

Course Outline

• IronPort Overview
• Product / technology overview
• The Email Pipeline
• SMTP 101
• IronPort Email filtering approaches
• Installing the IronPort Appliance
• Host access table (HAT) and recipient access table (RAT)
• Configuring Listeners
• Listeners
• Mail Flow Policies
• Host Access Table
• Recipient Access Table
• SMTP Routes
• Securing Your Email
• Tracking incoming and outgoing mail
• Monitoring system status
• The work queue
• Content Filters
• Embedded Object Detection
• Protected File Detection
• Weighted Content Matching
• Smart Identifiers
• Anti-Spam
• SenderBase Reputation Filters
• Anti-Spam configuration
• IronPort™ C-Series Configuration
• Day Two Agenda
• Anti-Virus
• Anti-Virus configuration
• Virus Outbreak Filters and virus quarantine
• Quarantines & Bounce Profiles
• Quarantine Management
• IronPort Spam Quarantine
• Bounce Profiles
• Email Encryption
• Encryption Profile
• Associating Content Filters with the Encrypt Action
• Troubleshooting
• Troubleshooting tools and best practices
• Log file contents and log administration
• System Administration
• Support tools
• System backup and recovery
• Software upgrades