CCIE Security Lab Preparation (CCIESEC) — A 6-day course

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Overview

This intense course is designed to prepare CCIE candidates for the one-day Security "hands-on" lab exam. Over six days candidates will solidify their existing knowledge, expose their weaknesses and gain vital test taking strategies. Each candidate will work through challenging scenarios on their own vRack of equipment. Each student will be given dedicated access to their individual vRack throughout the course.

This course consists of sereval hours of lectures per day and up to 10 hours of more of hands-on preparation per day. Be prepared to stay late every evening. During the course the instructor will identify some of the most commen mistakes that candidates make and at the end of the week, will provide each individual an assessment of their readiness.

Course Objectives

After completing this training course the student will:

• Be prepared for the Cisco CCIE Security Lab Exam Blueprint v2.0

Intended Audience

This class is designed for candidates who are within 6 months of their lab date. The class does not cover introductory material and candidates are expected to have at a minimum a CCSP level knowledge of the topics covered in order to receive the full benefit of the class.

Prerequisites

• At least 2 years hands-on experience with Cisco Security and SAFE Blueprint architecture.
• Students should have passed the CCIE Security Written exam and may already hold some of the security certifications such as CCSP, etc.

Dates and Price

This course costs £3495 + VAT. Please contact us for latest dates and locations.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Contents:

ASA/PIX Firewall

• Initial Configuration of PIX/ASA
• Routing
• Translations and Connections
• Access Control Lists and Object Groups
• Deep Packet Inspection
• Control URL's and FTP commands using MPF
• Running BGP thru the Firewall
• TCP Normalization
• Transparent Firewall
• ARP inspection on Firewall
• Virtual Firewalls (Security Contexts)
• Active/Standby Failover
• Statefull Failover
• Active/Active Failover

IPSEC/VPN

• LAN-to-LAN IPSec using NAT-T
• IPSec Hairpinning
• EZVPN in Client and Network Extension Mode
• QoS with IPSec
• DMVPN thru the Firewall
• Basic Configuration of VPN Concentrator
• Routing on the Concentrator
• Administration and Filtering on the Concentrator
• LAN-to-LAN Tunnel on the Concentrator
• EZVPN on the Concentrator in Client Mode
• EZVPN on the Concentrator in Network Extension Mode without XAUTH
• Remote Access on the Concentrator with RRI and Split Tunnelling

IPS Sensor

• IPS in Promiscuous Mode
• SPAN/RSPAN
• Blocking Using ASA
• IPS in Inline Mode – Interface Pair and Inline VLAN Pair
• Signature Tuning
• Custom Stream Signatures
• Custom HTTP Signatures
• Custom Packet Signatures

Access Management

• Configuring ACS for Network Devices
• Configuring Users and Groups on ACS Server
• Configuring Routers, Switches and ASA/PIX for Management Authentication using ACS Server
• Configuring Command Authorization based on the ACS server
• Configuring Accounting based on the ACS Server
• Configuring Authentication Proxy on the ASA
• Configuring Authentication on the Concentrator from the ACS Server
• Configuring NAC-802.1X Authentication on the Switch

Advanced Network Security and Network Attacks

• Preventing IP Spoofing
• Configuring NAT on Routers
• Configuring IP TCP Intercept
• Blocking ICMP Attacks
• Port Security on the Switches
• DHCP Snooping
• Dynamic ARP Inspection(DAI)
• IP Source Guard
• Mitigating Attacks using CAR
• Mitigating Attacks using NBAR
• IOS Firewall
• Blocking attacks using PBR