Cisco CCNP Security: SCOR & SVPN (Vouchers Included)

The CCNP Security: SCOR course provides you with the knowledge to implement and operate core Cisco security technologies. You will learn about common security vulnerabilities, Email Security Appliance (ESA), Web Security Appliance (WSA), Cloud Email Security (CES), mobile device management (MDM), VPN configuration, and more.

The Implementing Secure Solutions with Virtual Private Networks (SVPN) course focuses on implementing secure remote communications with Virtual Private Network (VPN)...

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6 Months / 70 Course Hrs
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Course code: GES3062

What you will learn

SCOR

  • Cisco security devices via an API
  • Layer 2 and Layer 3+ security
  • VPNs
  • Cloud security concepts
  • Email Security Appliance (ESA)
  • Web Security Appliance (WSA)
  • Cloud Email Security (CES)
  • DNS with Cisco Umbrella
  • Mobile device management (MDM)
  • Multifactor authentication (MFA)

SVPN

  • Implement secure remote communications with Virtual Private Network (VPN) solutions including secure communications, architectures, and troubleshooting
  • Implementing Site to Site IPsec VPN on Routers & ASA
  • Implementing FlexVPN with IKEv2 on Cisco Routers
  • Implementing DMVPN on Cisco Routers
  • Implementing Cisco AnyConnect

How you will benefit

  • You will be prepared to sit for the Cisco CCNP Security core exam: 350-701 SCOR: Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies
  • You will be prepared to sit for the Cisco CCNP Security concentration exam: 300-730 SVPN: Implementing Secure Solutions with Virtual Private Networks

How the course is taught

  • Self-paced, online course
  • 6 Months to complete
  • Open enrollment, begin anytime
  • 70 course hours
  1. Security Foundations
    1. Attacks against on-premises and cloud resources
    2. Common security vulnerabilities
    3. Cryptography concepts and applications
    4. Managing Cisco security devices via application programming interfaces (APIs)
  2. Implementing Security
    1. Security in common cloud environments
    2. Division of responsibility (shared responsibility model)
    3. DevSecOps, continuous integration, and orchestration
  3. Cloud Concepts and Security
    1. Configuring and Verifying VLANs
    2. Configuring and Verifying Trunks
    3. VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP)
    4. STP Overview and Algorithm Deep Dive
    5. STP Convergence, Configuration and Manipulation
    6. STP PortFast, and BPDU Guard
    7. Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol (MSTP)
    8. EtherChannels
    9. Inter-VLAN Routing
    10. First-Hop Redundancy Protocol (FHRP)
  4. Application-Specific Security Tools
    1. Email Security Appliance (ESA)
    2. Web Security Appliance (WSA)
    3. Cloud Email Security (CES)
    4. Securing DNS with Cisco Umbrella
  5. Securing Endpoints
    1. Antimalware concepts
    2. Mobile device management (MDM)
    3. Multifactor authentication (MFA)
    4. Network access control
    5. Patch management
  6. Network Access Control and Visibility
    1. 802.1x, WebAuth, and MAB
    2. Network visibility and evasion techniques
    3. Cisco network analytics technologies
  7. Introduction to VPN Technologies
    1. Site-to-site and remote access VPNs
    2. Cryptography concepts
    3. Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
    4. IPsec Concepts
    5. IKEv1 and IKEv2
    6. AH and ESP
  8. VPN Configuration
    1. Traditional crypto map IPsec configuration
    2. VTI configuration
    3. Configuring and troubleshooting DMVPN
    4. Deploying and troubleshooting FlexVPN
  9. Remote Access VPN Configuration
    1. SSL concepts
    2. Clientless AnyConnect deployments
    3. Client-based AnyConnect deployments
    4. Extended functionality with plugins
    5. Local, remote, and two-factor authentication
    6. Host scan and posture assessment
    7. AnyConnect troubleshooting

Shane Sexton

Shane Sexton is a cybersecurity-focused instructor with a hunger for using technology to combat real-world challenges. He holds many professional IT certifications such as Citrix CCA, CompTIA A+, CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Linux+, CompTIA CySA+, ITIL Foundations, Cisco CCNA, AWS SysOps, and Cisco CCNP Security. Shane's extensive professional expertise includes Citrix Virtualization, Citrix Virtualization, Computer Hardware support, Cisco networking, Cybersecurity Blue Team, Cybersecurity Red Team, Cisco security, Amazon AWS, and ITIL. Inside the classroom, Shane makes the complicated seem approachable. Outside the classroom, Shane is a mad scientist with automation, coding, and scripting, tying them back to technologies he teaches in class. If he isn't watching the latest SpaceX launch, he can usually be found tinkering with something.

Prerequisites:

There are no prerequisites for the course or exams, but it is highly recommended that you have:

  • Completed a Cisco CCNA course and/or exam, or have equivalent experience
  • Familiarity with the Cisco IOS® Software Command-Line Interface (CLI)
  • Familiarity with Cisco AnyConnect® Secure Mobility Client
  • Familiarity with 802.1X

Requirements:

Hardware Requirements:

  • This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook.

Software Requirements:

  • PC: Windows 8 or later.
  • Mac: macOS 10.6 or later.
  • Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox is preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible.
  • Microsoft Word Online
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
  • Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins.

Other:

  • Email capabilities and access to a personal email account.

Instructional Material Requirements:

The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.

About Certification: Cisco

Cisco is an American-based multinational digital communications technology conglomerate corporation headquartered in San Jose, California. Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products, including many certification opportunities.

There are four or five (path to network designers) levels of certification: Associate (CCNA/CCDA), Professional (CCNP/CCDP), Expert (CCIE/CCDE) and recently Architect (CCAr: CCDE previous), as well as nine different paths for the specific technical field; Routing & Switching, Design, Industrial Network, Network Security, Service Provider, Service Provider Operations, Storage Networking, Voice, Datacenter and Wireless.

Cisco offers an industry-leading portfolio of technology innovations. With networking, security, collaboration, cloud management, and more, they help to securely connect industries and communities.

Yes, you will be prepared to sit for the Cisco CCNP Security exams: SCOR and SVPN.

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