Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance

Course CI-SESA

  • Duration:
    • 4 days

Dates:

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  • Course times: As a rule, our seminars are held from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on day 1 and from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm on the following days. Changes are possible. The concrete seminar times you will find in the binding order confirmation.
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04.03.2025 - 07.03.2025 Frankfurt, Virtual Classroom
  • 3195 EUR / Person
German
01.07.2025 - 04.07.2025 Virtual Classroom
  • 3195 EUR / Person
German

This training shows you how to deploy and use the Cisco® Email Security Appliance to protect your email systems from phishing, email compromise, and ransomware, and to streamline email security policy management.

This hands-on course provides you with the knowledge and skills to implement, troubleshoot, and manage the Cisco Email Security Appliance, including key features such as advanced malware protection, spam blocking, virus protection, outbreak filtering, encryption, quarantines, and data loss prevention.

  • 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
Email Security Training
Describing the Cisco Email Security Appliance
Cisco Email Security Appliance Overview
Technology Use Case
Cisco Email Security Appliance Data Sheet
SMTP Overview
Email Pipeline Overview
Installation Scenarios
Initial Cisco Email Security Appliance Configuration
Centralizing Services on a Cisco Content Security Management Appliance (SMA)
Release Notes for AsyncOS 11.x
Administering the Cisco Email Security Appliance
Distributing Administrative Tasks
System Administration
Managing and Monitoring Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)
Other Tasks in the GUI
Advanced Network Configuration
Using Email Security Monitor
Tracking Messages
Logging
Controlling Sender and Recipient Domains
Public and Private Listeners
Configuring the Gateway to Receive Email
Host Access Table Overview
Recipient Access Table Overview
Configuring Routing and Delivery Features
Controlling Spam with Talos SenderBase and Anti-Spam
SenderBase Overview
Anti-Spam
Managing Graymail
Protecting Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs
File Reputation Filtering and File Analysis
Bounce Verification
Using Anti-Virus and Outbreak Filters
Anti-Virus Scanning Overview
Sophos Anti-Virus Filtering
McAfee Anti-Virus Filtering
Configuring the Appliance to Scan for Viruses
Outbreak Filters
How the Outbreak Filters Feature Works
Managing Outbreak Filters
Using Mail Policies
Email Security Manager Overview
Mail Policies Overview
Handling Incoming and Outgoing Messages Differently
Matching Users to a Mail Policy
Message Splintering
Configuring Mail Policies
Using Content Filters
Content Filters Overview
Content Filter Conditions
Content Filter Actions
Filter Messages Based on Content
Text Resources Overview
Using and Testing the Content Dictionaries Filter Rules
Understanding Text Resources
Text Resource Management
Using Text Resources
Using Message Filters to Enforce Email Policies
Message Filters Overview
Components of a Message Filter
Message Filter Processing
Message Filter Rules
Message Filter Actions
Attachment Scanning
Examples of Attachment Scanning Message Filters
Using the CLI to Manage Message Filters
Message Filter Examples
Configuring Scan Behavior
Preventing Data Loss
Overview of the Data Loss Prevention (DLP) Scanning Process
Setting Up Data Loss Prevention
Policies for Data Loss Prevention
Message Actions
Updating the DLP Engine and Content Matching Classifiers
Using LDAP
Overview of LDAP
Working with LDAP
Using LDAP Queries
Authenticating End-Users of the Spam Quarantine
Configuring External LDAP Authentication for Users
Testing Servers and Queries
Using LDAP for Directory Harvest Attack Prevention
Spam Quarantine Alias Consolidation Queries
Validating Recipients Using an SMTP Server
SMTP Session Authentication
Configuring AsyncOS for SMTP Authentication
Authenticating SMTP Sessions Using Client Certificates
Checking the Validity of a Client Certificate
Authenticating Users Using LDAP Directory
Authenticating SMTP Connection Over Transport Layer Security (TLS) Using a Client Certificate
Establishing a TLS Connection from the Appliance
Updating a List of Revoked Certificates
Email Authentication
Email Authentication Overview
Configuring DomainKeys and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signing
Verifying Incoming Messages Using DKIM
Overview of Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and SIDF Verification
Domain-based Message Authentication Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) Verification
Forged Email Detection
Email Encryption
Overview of Cisco Email Encryption
Encrypting Messages
Determining Which Messages to Encrypt
Inserting Encryption Headers into Messages
Encrypting Communication with Other Message Transfer Agents (MTAs)
Working with Certificates
Managing Lists of Certificate Authorities
Enabling TLS on a Listener's Host Access Table (HAT)
Enabling TLS and Certificate Verification on Delivery
Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME) Security Services
Using System Quarantines and Delivery Methods
Describing Quarantines
Spam Quarantine
Setting Up the Centralised Spam Quarantine
Using Safelists and Blocklists to Control Email Delivery Based on Sender
Configuring Spam Management Features for End Users
Managing Messages in the Spam Quarantine
Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
Managing Policy, Virus, and Outbreak Quarantines
Working with Messages in Policy, Virus, or Outbreak Quarantines
Delivery Methods
Centralised Management Using Clusters
Overview of Centralised Management Using Clusters
Cluster Organisation
Creating and Joining a Cluster
Managing Clusters
Cluster Communication
Loading a Configuration in Clustered Appliances
Best Practices
Testing and Troubleshooting
Debugging Mail Flow Using Test Messages: Trace
Using the Listener to Test the Appliance
Troubleshooting the Network
Troubleshooting the Listener
Troubleshooting Email Delivery
Troubleshooting Performance
Web Interface Appearance and Rendering Issues
Responding to Alerts
Troubleshooting Hardware Issues
Working with Technical Support
References
Model Specifications for Large Enterprises
Model Specifications for Midsize Enterprises and Small-to-Midsize Enterprises or Branch Offices
Cisco Email Security Appliance Model Specifications for Virtual Appliances
Packages and Licenses
  • Security Engineers
  • Security Administrators
  • Security Architects
  • Operations Engineers
  • Network Engineers
  • Network Administrators
  • Network or Security Technicians
  • Network Managers
  • System Designers
  • Cisco Integrators and Partners

You should have one or more of the following basic technical skills:

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

In addition, the following knowledge and skills:
TCP/IP services, including Domain Name System (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP and HTTPS; IP routing experience.

We conduct this training together with ExpertTeach.

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