SD-WAN Edge Security Lab

SD-WAN Edge Security Lab is a capability of the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) designed to provide an environment to gain hands-on experience with the embedded security features offered on the WAN Edge. The environment that supports the lab is completely virtual, removing any hardware dependencies associated with physical infrastructure.

Built with the intention to protect your branch offices, Cisco's SD-WAN solution contains the ability to deploy a built-in enterprise firewall, setup intrusion detection and prevention, filter web content, and analyze files for malware, and share services across the network with service chaining.  Schedule the lab today to learn how to activate these features and use them effectively!

The purpose of the lab guide is to help you develop proficiency deploying the advanced security features available on the Cisco SD-WAN platform. By the end of the lab, you should gain enough knowledge to begin applying these technologies to your own use cases. The lab is divided into modules based on the core technology being covered.

Modules included are:

• Enterprise firewall
• Intrusion detection and prevention
• URL filtering
• Advanced Malware Protection
• TLS/SSL Decryption
• Service Chaining

Cisco SD-WAN Software

• Version 20.12.5/17.12.05a

Cisco SD-WAN Devices

• 1x SD-WAN Manager
• 2x SD-WAN Controller
• 2x SD-WAN Validator
• 7x cEdge c8000V

Infrastructure Devices

• 5x c8000V
• 9x Windows 11 Desktop
• 2x Ubuntu server
• 2x TrafficJam