Course Overview

The Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance (SWSA) v3.1 course shows you how to implement, use, and maintain Cisco® Web Security Appliance (WSA), powered by Cisco Talos, to provide advanced protection for business email and control against web security threats. Through a combination of expert instruction and hands-on practice, you’ll learn how to deploy proxy services, use authentication, implement policies to control HTTPS traffic and access, implement use control settings and policies, use the solution’s anti-malware features, implement data security and data loss prevention, perform administration of Cisco WSA solution, and more.

This course helps you prepare to take the exam, Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance (300-725 SWSA), which leads to CCNP® Security and the Cisco Certified Specialist - Web Content Security. This course also earns you 16 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards recertification.

Who Should Attend

• Security architects
• System designers
• Network administrators
• Operations engineers
• Network managers, network or security technicians, and security engineers and managers responsible for web security
• Cisco integrators and partners

Course Objectives

• Describe Cisco WSA
• Deploy proxy services
• Utilize authentication
• Describe decryption policies to control HTTPS traffic
• Understand differentiated traffic access policies and identification profiles
• Enforce acceptable use control settings
• Defend against malware
• Describe data security and data loss prevention
• Perform administration and troubleshooting

Course Outline