Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator

Course details

In the Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator (BCCPA) course, intended for students who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat ProxySG, you will learn the major functions of the ProxySG, how they work, how to administer them, and how the ProxySG interfaces with other Blue Coat products. You will learn key concepts of network security and wide-area network (WAN) optimization and how to get service and support from Blue Coat.

Target Audience

Students who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat products and have not taken any previous Blue Coat training courses.

Objectives

• Blue Coat's most recent operating system
• Basics of proxy services
• WAN optimization features
• ProxySG deployment strategies
• Licensing and upgrading the SG
• Intial setup strategies
• Management Console
• Policy management
• Controlling services
• HTTP and how to implement controls in the SG
• Authentication introduction
• Content filtering
• IM filtering
• Creating notifications and meaningful exception pages
• Access logging
• Intro to Reporter - Blue Coat's reporting tool
• Reporter installation
• ProxyAV
• ICAP and its uses
• Services and support.

Course Outline

• Proxy Fundamentals
• ProxySG Deployment
• Initial Setup
• Graphical User Interface (GUI)
• Services
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Authentication Introduction
• Authentication Realms
• Policy Management
• Content Filtering
• Managing Instant Messaging
• Access Logging
• Introduction to Reporter
• ProxyAV
• Service and Support.