The Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance (SWSA) V3.0 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.
How you’ll benefit
This class will help you:
Implement Cisco WSA to secure web gateways, provide malware protection, and use policy controls to address the challenges of securing and controlling web traffic
Gain valuable hands-on skills for high-demand responsibilities focused on web security
Upon completing this course, the student will be able to meet these 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
What to Expect in the Exam
This exam certifies your 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.
After you pass 300-725 SWSA:
?You earn the Cisco Certified Specialist - Web Content Security certification.
You will have satisfied the concentration exam requirement for new the CCNP Security certification. To complete CCNP Security, you also need to pass the Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (350-701 SCOR) exam or its equivalent.
To fully benefit from this course, you should have knowledge of these topics:
TCP/IP services, including Domain Name System (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP, and HTTPS
IP routing
You are expected to have one or more of the following basic technical competencies or equivalent knowledge:
Cisco certification (CCENT certification or higher)
Relevant industry certification [International Information System Security Certification Consortium ((ISC)2), Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) Security+, International Council of Electronic Commerce Consultants (EC-Council), Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), ISACA]
Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA 1 and CCNA 2)
Windows expertise: Microsoft [Microsoft Specialist, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)], CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)