Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance

Course details

This is a instructor-led training that provides channel partners with the knowledge required to successfully evaluate, install, configure, and administer the Cisco IronPort email security appliance. Attendees will gain enough knowledge and hands-on practice to enable them to conduct evaluations and close deals, install and configure the appliance, use customer support and channel portal resources.

Target Audience

This course is designed for:

• Cisco Channel Partner System Engineers

Objectives

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Perform evaluations and create email trend reports
• Use IronPort support and troubleshooting tools to verify the installation
• Deploy IronPort email security appliances in a typical small to medium business email environment, including best practices for installation, and configuration
• Use the RSA Data Loss Prevention engine to enforce international and state privacy laws for data in motion.
• Configure content filters to trigger envelope encryption using CRES
• Configure IronPort email security appliances to detect and handle unwanted spam and viruses.
• Configure IronPort email security appliances to detect and handle targeted phishing attacks
• Configure Delegated Administrator

Course Outline

Introduction to IronPort™

• Product/technology overview
• ASYNCOS™MTA Platform
• Email Management Tools
• Email Pipeline
• Listing Email Security Solutions

Performing an Evaluation

• Evaluation Lifecycle
• Evaluation Process
• Perform appliance or hosted Installation based on a customer interview
• Troubleshoot using Telnet on Port 25
• Logging Activities

Sender & Recipient Groups

• Configure public and private listeners
• Configure SMTP Routes
• Use SBRS to manage mail
• Use Mail Debugging Tools

Tracking and Reporting Messages: Configure and Use

• Localized Message Tracking
• Localized Reporting
• Centralized Email Reporting
• Centralized Email Tracking
• System Setup Wizard

Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus

• Describe Sensorbase
• Adjust Sensorbase Reputation Scores
• Configure Anti-Spam
• Configure Anti-Virus
• Configure Outbreak Filter Settings

Using Content Filters

• Content Scanning
• Detecting password-protected attachments
• Weighted content matching
• Cisco Registered Envelope Service (CRES)

Preventing Data Loss (DLP)

• Identify conditions where your customer may be held accountable for loss of data through email
• Recommend a Cisco IronPort DLP solution
• Implement the solution in an Outgoing Mail Policy
• Track DLP Policy usage

Encrypting Outgoing Mail

• Provision with the Cisco Registered Envelope Service
• Associate a content filtering rule with an "Encrypt" action
• Configure No Auth Encryption
• Register a CRES Envelope Recipient

Provisioning LDAP

• Provision LDAP by
• Configuring LDAP Accept Queries
• Configuring SMTP Call-Ahead
• Configuring LDAP Group Queries

System Administration

• Cisco IronPort Support page
• System Verification
• Feature keys
• Leveraging Appliance Support tools
• Configuring Delegated Admins
• Establishing strong password controls