After taking this course, you should be able to:

• Describe and administer the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)
• Control sender and recipient domains
• Control spam with Talos SenderBase and anti-spam
• Use anti-virus and outbreak filters
• Use mail policies
• Use content filters
• Use message filters to enforce email policies
• Prevent data loss
• Perform LDAP queries
• Authenticate Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) sessions
• Authenticate email
• Encrypt email
• Use system quarantines and delivery methods
• Perform centralized management using clusters
• Test and troubleshoot

• Describing the Cisco Email Security Appliance
• Administering the Cisco Email Security Appliance
• Controlling Sender and Recipient Domains
• Controlling Spam with Talos SenderBase and Anti-Spam
• Using Anti-Virus and Outbreak Filters
• Using Mail Policies
• Using Content Filters
• Using Message Filters to Enforce Email Policies
• Preventing Data Loss
• Using LDAP
• SMTP Session Authentication
• Email Authentication
• Email Encryption
• Using System Quarantines and Delivery Methods
• Centralized Management Using Clusters
• Testing and Troubleshooting
• References

Lab outline

• Verify and Test Cisco ESA Configuration
• Perform Basic Administration
• Advanced Malware in Attachments (Macro Detection)
• Protect Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs Beneath Shortened URLs
• Protect Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs Inside Attachments
• Intelligently Handle Unscannable Messages
• Leverage AMP Cloud Intelligence Via Pre-Classification Enhancement
• Integrate Cisco ESA with AMP Console
• Prevent Threats with Anti-Virus Protection
• Applying Content and Outbreak Filters
• Configure Attachment Scanning
• Configure Outbound Data Loss Prevention
• Integrate Cisco ESA with LDAP and Enable the LDAP Accept Query
• Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM)
• Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
• Forged Email Detection
• Configure the Cisco SMA for Tracking and Reporting

• Security engineers
• Security administrators
• Security architects
• Operations engineers
• Network engineers
• Network administrators
• Network or security technicians
• Network managers
• System designers
• Cisco integrators and partners

To fully benefit from this course, you should have one or more of the following basic technical competencies:

• Cisco certification (Cisco CCENT® certification or higher)
• Relevant industry certification, such as (ISC)2, CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), and ISACA
• Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA® 1 and CCNA 2)
• Windows expertise: Microsoft [Microsoft Specialist, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)], CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)

The knowledge and skills that a student must have before attending this course are:

• TCP/IP services, including Domain Name System (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP, and HTTPS
• Experience with IP routing

Cisco learning offerings that contribute to recommended skills and knowledge:

• Email Security Training resources at https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/training-events/training-certifications/supplemental-training/email-and-web-security.html