Workshop•4 hours
Cisco Secure Firewall 101
The Cisco Secure Firewall 101 Workshop is a hybrid workshop delivered by a technology-specific Subject Matter Expert, either virtually via the customer's meeting platform or onsite at the customer's location.
The engagement combines an SME engagement, workshop, training and lab demo in one interactive experience focused on learning a new technology, best practices and how it fits into the customer's environment.
What to Expect
Hybrid workshop (virtual or onsite), SME-led, combining training + lab demo. Covering the following:
- Secure Firewall Architecture & Licensing
- Secure Firewall Deployment Practices - Planning, & Staging, Central Management vs Cloud Management vs Local
- Secure Firewall Deployment: Routed, Transparent & High Availability Modes
- Access Control Policy Fundamentals
- Intrusion Prevention & Snort Basics, SSL/TLS Decryption Fundamentals
- Logging, Monitoring & Troubleshooting (FMC Health/Events)
Goals & Objectives
- Foundational knowledge of Secure Firewall (FTD/FMC) — Essentials-licensed features only
- Prerequisite assumption: attendees understand basic firewall/network security concepts and their org's security policy
- Working knowledge to deploy and maintain Secure Firewall in their environment
Details
The following sections each take an hour to cover baseline knowledge, implementation best practices, and "gotchas" specific to the section:
- Secure Firewall Architecture & Licensing
- Secure Firewall Deployment Practices - Planning, & Staging, Central Management vs Cloud Management vs Local
- Secure Firewall Deployment: Routed, Transparent & High Availability Modes
- Access Control Policy Fundamentals
- Intrusion Prevention & Snort Basics, SSL/TLS Decryption Fundamentals
- Logging, Monitoring & Troubleshooting (FMC Health/Events)
Benefits
This training is designed to provide foundational knowledge around Cisco Secure Firewall The focus of the 101 Workshop is on licensed features within Cisco Secure Firewall, and how to get started with setting it up.
We recommend attendees understand the fundamentals on how firewalls work, and understand their organizations security policy to correctly apply knowledge gained to their environment.