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CISCO CCNP Security
The new CCNP Security certification program prepares you for today’s professional-level job roles in security technologies.One of the most valued certifications in the industry, CCNP validates the key skills you need while providing you to select a focus field. To obtain your CCNP, you pass two examinations:a core exam and a concentration exam
Introducing the new, foundational CCNP Security
The core exam, v1.0 (SCOR 300-701), concentrates on your knowledge of security infrastructure such as network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection and detection, secure network access, visibility, and enforcements. The core exam is also the qualifying exam for CCIE Security certification.Passing this exam helps to earn both of these certifications
The focus of Concentration exams is on emerging and industry-related topics such as Cisco Firepower, identity services, email security, web security, VPNs, and automation.
Signellent's expert instructor led course is designed for working as well as upcoming professionals. We are proud in stating that we provide a high success rate to our students by way of highlighting the goals for them, starting day one. The following are the course highlights of Signellent.
- The course is designed according to “CISCO guidelines".
- On a daily basis, the instructors pay personal attention in Monitoring and evaluating the candidates' progress.
- Lab exercises are conducted, daily, for extensive familiarity with the equipment.
- Revisions conducted regularly.
- Instructors who are experienced in CISCO and, from the industry.
- The modules of CCNP are designed to meet the objectives of CCNP.
- The course is specially designed, with an aim to achieve proficiency in technology and, CCNP certification.
- edicated Professional to manage, track and evaluate the candidate's performance from registration to completion.
- The course benefits students who aim to build academic knowledge as it contains, in addition, applied lab exercises.
- Intensive training+ rigorous lab exercises.
- To enable students to prepare better, the Course kit contains reference material and add-ons.
- Apt balance of theoretical and practical application
- To ensure better results, there are "Customised tests" at the end of the course.
- Progress reports of each student is made keeping Stern passing standards.
- For students who wish to practice remotely, there's Lab-on-cloud facility.
- Till the time the students are comfortable with the topic, they can attend the same lecture multiple times.
After you complete this CCNP Security course you will be able to:
- will enable you to understand implementation, 802.1X architecture and also, operation.
- It makes the candidates aware of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) solutions, architecture and components as an overall network threat mitigation and "endpoint control solutions".
- It also contains the basic concepts of "bring your own device" (BYOD) using "posture and profiling services" of ISE.
- Candidates can ready themselves for this exam by taking the Implementing Cisco Secure Access Solutions (SISAS) course.
After you complete this CCNP Security 300-735-SAUTO course you will be able to:
Automating and Programming Cisco Security Solutions v1.0 (SAUTO 300-735) is a 90-minute exam associated with the CCNP Security Certification and DevNet Professional Certification. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of implementing Security automated solutions, including programming concepts, RESTful APIs, data models, protocols, firewalls, web, DNS, cloud and email security, and ISE. The course, Implementing Cisco Security Automation Solutions, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
After you complete this CCNP Security 300-730-SVPN course you will be able to:
Implementing Secure Solutions with Virtual Private Networks v1.0 (SVPN 300-730) is a 90-minute exam associated with the CCNP Security Certification. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of implementing secure remote communications with Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including secure communications, architectures, and troubleshooting. The course, Implementing Secure Solutions with Virtual Private Networks, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
After you complete this CCNP Security 300-725-SWSA course you will be able to:
Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance v1.0 (SWSA 300-725) is a 90- minute exam associated with the CCNP Security Certification. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of Cisco Web Security Appliance, including proxy services, authentication, decryption policies differentiated traffic access policies and identification policies, acceptable use control settings, malware defense, and data security and data loss prevention. The course, Securing Web with Cisco Email Security Appliance, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
After you complete this CCNP Security 300-720-SESA course you will be able to:
Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance v1.0 (SESA 300-720) is a 90- minute exam associated with the CCNP Security Certification. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of Cisco Email Security Appliance, including administration, spam control and antispam, message filters, data loss prevention, LDAP, email authentication and encryption, and system quarantines and delivery methods. The course, Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
After you complete this CCNP Security 300-715-SISE course you will be able to:
Implementing and Configuring Cisco Identity Services Engine v1.0 (SISE 300-715) is a 90-minute exam associated with the CCNP Security Certification. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of Cisco Identify Services Engine, including architecture and deployment, policy enforcement, Web Auth and guest services, profiler, BYOD, endpoint compliance, and network access device administration. The course, Implementing and Configuring Cisco Identity Services Engine, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
After you complete this CCNP Security 300-710-SNCF course you will be able to:
Securing Networks with Cisco Firepower v1.0 (SNCF 300-710) is a 90-minute exam associated with the CCNP Security Certification. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of Cisco Firepower® Threat Defense and Firepower®, including policy configurations, integrations, deployments, management and troubleshooting. The course, Securing Networks with Cisco Firepower, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
After you complete this CCNP Security 300-701-SCOR course you will be able to:
Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies v1.0 (SCOR 300-701) is a 120-minute exam associated with the CCNP and CCIE Security Certifications. This exam tests a candidate's knowledge of implementing and operating core security technologies including network security, cloud security, content security, endpoint protection and detection, secure network access, visibility and enforcements. The course, Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies, helps candidates to prepare for this exam.
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Security 300-735-SAUTO Course.
Network Programmability Foundation
- Utilize common version control operations with git (add, clone, push, commit, diff, branching, and merging conflict)
- Describe characteristics of API styles (REST and RPC)
- Describe the challenges encountered and patterns used when consuming APIs synchronously and asynchronously
- Interpret Python scripts containing data types, functions, classes, conditions, and looping
- Describe the benefits of Python virtual environments
- Explain the benefits of using network configuration tools such as Ansible and Puppet for automating security platforms
Network Security
- Describe the event streaming capabilities of Firepower Management Center eStreamer
- API
- Describe the capabilities and components of these APIs
- Firepower (Firepower Management Center and Firepower Device Management)
- ISE
- pxGRID
- Stealthwatch Enterprise
- Implement firewall objects, rules, intrusion policies, and access policies using Firepower Management Center API
- Implement firewall objects, rules, intrusion policies, and access policies using Firepower Threat Defense API (also known as Firepower Device Manager API)
- Construct a Python script for pxGrid to retrieve information such as endpoint device
- type, network policy and security telemetry
- Construct API requests using Stealthwatch API
- perform configuration modifications
- generate rich reports
Advanced Threat & Endpoint Security
- Describe the capabilities and components of these APIs
- Umbrella Investigate APIs
- AMP for endpoints APIs
- ThreatGRID API
- Construct an Umbrella Investigate API request
- Construct AMP for endpoints API requests for event, computer, and policies
- Construct ThreatGRID APIs request for search, sample feeds, IoC feeds, and threat disposition
Cloud, Web, and Email Security
- Describe the capabilities and components of these APIs
- Umbrella reporting and enforcement APIs
- Stealthwatch cloud APIs
- Cisco Security Management Appliance APIs
- Construct Stealthwatch cloud API request for reporting
- Construct an Umbrella Reporting and Enforcement API request
- Construct a report using Cisco Security Management Appliance API request (email and web)
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Security 300-730-SVPN Course.
Site-to-site Virtual Private Networks on Routers and Firewalls
- Describe GETVPN
- Implement DMVPN (hub-and-spoke and spoke-to-spoke on both IPv4 & IPv6)
- Implement FlexVPN (hub-and-spoke on both IPv4 & IPv6) using local AAA
Remote access VPNs
- Implement AnyConnect IKEv2 VPNs on ASA and routers
- Implement AnyConnect SSLVPN on ASA and routers
- Implement Clientless SSLVPN on ASA and routers
- Implement Flex VPN on routers
Troubleshooting using ASDM and CLI
- Troubleshoot IPsec
- Troubleshoot DMVPN
- Troubleshoot FlexVPN
- Troubleshoot AnyConnect IKEv2 and SSL VPNs on ASA and routers
- Troubleshoot Clientless SSLVPN on ASA and routers
Secure Communications Architectures
- Identify functional components of GETVPN, FlexVPN, DMVPN, and IPsec for site-to-site VPN solutions
- Identify functional components of FlexVPN, IPsec, and Clientless SSL for remote access VPN solutions
- Identify VPN technology based on configuration output for site-to-site VPN solutions
- Identify VPN technology based on configuration output for remote access VPN solutions
- Identify split tunneling requirements for remote access VPN solutions
- Design site-to-site VPN solutions
- VPN technology considerations based on functional requirements
- High availability considerations
- Design remote access VPN solutions
- VPN technology considerations based on functional requirements
- High availability considerations
- Clientless SSL browser and client considerations and requirements
- Identify Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithms
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Security 300-725-SWSA Course
Cisco WSA Features
- Describe Cisco WSA features and functionality
- Proxy service
- Cognitive Threat Analytics
- Data loss prevention service
- Integrated L4TM service
- Management tools
- Describe WSA solutions
- Cisco Advanced Web Security Reporting
- Cisco Content Security Management Appliance
- Integrate Cisco WSA with Splunk
- Integrate Cisco WSA with Cisco ISE
- Troubleshoot data security and external data loss using log files
Configuration
- Perform initial configuration tasks on Cisco WSA
- Configure an Acceptable Use Policy
- Configure and verify web proxy features
- Explicit proxy functionality
- Proxy access logs using CLI
- Active directory proxy authentication
- Configure a referrer header to filter web categories
Proxy Services
- Compare proxy terms
- Explicit proxy vs. transparent proxy
- Upstream proxy vs. downstream proxy
- Describe tune caching behavior for safety or performance
- Describe the functions of a Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file
- Describe the SOCKS protocol and the SOCKS proxy services
Authentication
- Describe authentication features
- Supported authentication protocols
- Authentication realms
- Supported authentication surrogates supported
- Bypassing authentication of problematic agents
- Authentication logs for accounting records
- Re-authentication
- Configure traffic redirection to Cisco WSA using explicit forward proxy mode
- Describe the FTP proxy authentication
- Troubleshoot authentication issues
Decryption Policies to Control HTTPS Traffic
- Describe SSL and TLS inspection
- Configure HTTPS capabilities
- HTTPS decryption policies
- HTTPS proxy function
- ACL tags for HTTPS inspection
- HTTPS proxy and verify TLS/SSL decryption
- Certificate types used for HTTPS decryption
- Configure self-signed and intermediate certificates within SSL/TLS transactions
Differentiated Traffic Access Policies and Identification Profiles
- Describe access policies
- Describe identification profiles and authentication
- Troubleshoot using access logs
Acceptable Use Control
- Configure URL filtering
- Configure the dynamic content analysis engine
- Configure time-based & traffic volume acceptable use policies and end user notifications
- Configure web application visibility and control (Office 365, third-party feeds)
- Create a corporate global acceptable use policy
- Implement policy trace tool to verify corporate global acceptable use policy
- Configure WSA to inspect archive file types
Malware Defense
- Describe anti-malware scanning
- Configure file reputation filtering and file analysis
- Describe Advanced Malware Protection (AMP)
- Describe integration with Cognitive Threat Analytics
Reporting and Tracking Web Transactions
- Configure and analyze web tracking reports
- Configure Cisco Advanced Web Security Reporting (AWSR)
- Basic web usage
- Custom filters
- Troubleshoot connectivity issues
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Security 300-720-SESA Course.
Cisco Email Security Appliance Administration
- Configure Cisco Email Security Appliance features
- Hardware performance specifications
- Initial configuration process
- Routing and delivery features
- GUI
- Describe centralized services on a Cisco Content SMA
- Configure mail policies
- Incoming and outgoing messages
- User matching
- Message splintering
Spam Control with Talos SenderBase and Antispam
- Control spam with Talos SenderBase and Antispam
- Describe graymail management solution
- Configure file reputation filtering and file analysis features
- Implement malicious or undesirable URLs protection
- Describe the bounce verification feature
Content and Message filters
- Describe the functions and capabilities of content filters
- Create text resources such as content dictionaries, disclaimers, and templates
- Dictionaries filter rules
- Text resources management
- Configure message filters components, rules, processing order and attachment scanning
- Configure scan behavior
- Configure the Cisco ESA to scan for viruses using Sophos and McAfee scanning engines
- Configure outbreak filters
- Configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
LDAP and SMTP Sessions
- Configure and verify LDAP servers and queries (Queries and Directory Harvest Attack)
- Understand spam quarantine functions
- Authentication for end-users of spam quarantine
- Utilize spam quarantine alias to consolidate queries
- Understand SMTP functionality
- Email pipeline
- Sender and recipient domains
- SMTP session authentication using client certificates
- SMTP TLS authentication
- TLS email encryption
Email Authentication and Encryption
- Configure Domain Keys and DKIM signing
- Configure SPF and SIDF
- Configure DMARC verification
- Configure forged email detection
- Configure email encryption
- Describe S/MIME security services and communication encryption with other MTAs
- Manage certificate authorities
System Quarantines and Delivery Methods
- Configure quarantine (spam, policy, virus, and outbreak)
- Utilize safelists and blocklists to control email delivery
- Manage messages in local or external spam quarantines
- Configure virtual gateways
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Security 300-715-SISE Course.
Architecture and Deployment
- Configure personas
- Describe deployment options
Policy Enforcement
- Configure native AD and LDAP
- Describe identity store options
- LDAP
- AD
- PKI
- OTP
- Smart Card
- Local
2.3 Configure wired/wireless 802.1X network access
2.4 Configure 802.1X phasing deployment
2.5.a Monitor mode
2.5.b Low impact
2.5.c Closed mode
2.5 Configure network access devices
2.6 Implement MAB
2.7 Configure Cisco TrustSec
2.8 Configure policies including authentication and authorization profiles
Web Auth and Guest Services
- Configure web authentication
- Configure guest access services
- Configure sponsor and guest portals
Profiler
- Implement profiler services
- Implement probes
- Implement CoA
- Configure endpoint identity management
BYOD
- Describe Cisco BYOD functionality
- Use cases and requirements
- Solution components
- BYOD flow
- Configure BYOD device on-boarding using internal CA with Cisco switches and Cisco wireless LAN controllers
- Configure certificates for BYOD
- Configure blacklist/whitelist
Endpoint Compliance
- Describe endpoint compliance, posture services, and client provisioning
- Configure posture conditions and policy, and client provisioning
- Configure the compliance module
- Configure Cisco ISE posture agents and operational modes
- Describe supplicant, supplicant options, authenticator, and server
Network Access Device Administration
- Compare AAA protocols
- Configure TACACS+ device administration and command authorization
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Security 300-710-SNCF Course.
Deployment
- Implement NGFW modes
- Routed mode
- Transparent mode
- Implement NGIPS modes
- Passive
- Inline
- Implement high availability options
- Link redundancy
- Active/standby failover
- Multi-instance
- Describe IRB configurations
Configuration
- Configure system settings in Cisco Firepower Management Center
- Configure these policies in Cisco Firepower Management Center
- Access control
- Intrusion
- Malware and file
- DNS
- Identity
- SSL
- Prefilter
- Configure these features using Cisco Firepower Management Center
- Network discovery
- Application detectors (Open AppID)
- Correlation
- Actions
2.4 Configure objects using Firepower Management Center
2.4.a Object Management
2.4.b Intrusion Rules
2.5 Configure devices using Firepower Management Center
2.5.a Device Management
2.5.b NAT
2.5.c VPN
2.5.d QoS
2.5.e Platform Settings
2.5.f Certificates
Management and Troubleshooting
- Troubleshoot with FMC CLI and GUI
- Configure dashboards and reporting in FMC
- Troubleshoot using packet capture procedures
Integration
- Configure Cisco AMP for Networks in Firepower Management Center
- Configure Cisco AMP for Endpoints in Firepower Management Center
- Implement Threat Intelligence Director for third-party security intelligence feeds
- Describe using Cisco Threat Response for security investigations
- Describe Cisco FMC PxGrid Integration with Cisco Identify Services Engine (ISE)
- Describe Rapid Threat Containment (RTC) functionality within Firepower Management Center
Following Topics will be covered in CCNP Security 300-701-SCOR Course.
Security Concepts
- Explain common threats against on-premises and cloud environments
- On-premises: viruses, trojans, DoS/DDoS attacks, phishing, rootkits, man-in-the- middle attacks, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, malware
- Cloud: data breaches, insecure APIs, DoS/DDoS, compromised credentials
- 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
Network Security
- 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)
- Layer 2 methods (Network segmentation using VLANs and VRF-lite; Layer 2 and port security; DHCP snooping; Dynamic ARP inspection; storm control; PVLANs to segregate network traffic; and defenses against MAC, ARP, VLAN hopping, STP, and DHCP rogue attacks
- Device hardening of network infrastructure security devices (control plane, data plane, management plane, and routing protocol security)
- 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-of- band, 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
- Site-to-site VPN utilizing Cisco routers and IOS
- Remote access VPN using Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility client
- Debug commands to view IPsec tunnel establishment and troubleshooting
Securing the Cloud
- Identify security solutions for cloud environments
- Public, private, hybrid, and community clouds
- Cloud service models: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS (NIST 800-145)
- Compare the customer vs. provider security responsibility for the different cloud service models
- Patch management in the cloud
- Security assessment in the cloud
- Cloud-delivered security solutions such as firewall, management, proxy, security intelligence, and CASB
- 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
Content Security
- 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 on- premises 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)
Endpoint Protection and Detection
- 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
Secure Network Access, Visibility, and Enforcement
- 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
- Cisco Stealthwatch
- Cisco Stealthwatch Cloud
- Cisco pxGrid
- Cisco Umbrella Investigate
- Cisco Cognitive Threat Analytics
- Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics
- Cisco AnyConnect Network Visibility Module (NVM)