Skip to main Content

Introduction to Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Operations and Administration

  • Course Code N1_CSWOPS
  • Duration 2 days

Course Delivery

Additional Payment Options

  • CLC Please Call 0118 912 1929 excl. VAT

Public Classroom Price

£2,000.00

excl. VAT

Request Group Training Add to Cart

Course Delivery

This course is available in the following formats:

  • Company Event

    Event at company

  • Public Classroom

    Traditional Classroom Learning

  • Virtual Learning

    Learning that is virtual

Request this course in a different delivery format.

Course Overview

Top

In this two-day course, Introduction to Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Operations and Administration, (CSWOPS) will familiarize you and help you understand how The Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Analytics™ platform enables efficient data center operations by providing pervasive visibility, behavior-based application insight and migration to a zero-trust model.

Course Schedule

Top

Target Audience

Top

The primary audience for this course is as follows:

  • Channel Partners
  • Systems Architects
  • Network Architects
  • Network Engineers
  • Systems Engineers
  • Administrators

Course Objectives

Top

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to understand how Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Analytics™:

  • Enables pervasive visibility of traffic across datacenter infrastructure
  • Uses long term data retention for forensics and analysis
  • Creates communication and dependencies for all applications within the datacenter
  • Empowers companies to get to a whitelist policy model
  • Identifies behavior deviation in real time
  • Performs forensics operations

Course Content

Top

Module 1: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Overview

  • Defining and Positioning Cisco Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Analytics
  • Telemetry
  • Platform
  • Intent-Based Policy
  • Machine Learning
  • Network Performance Monitoring and other Use Cases

Module 2: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Components

  • Architecture
  • Data Collection
  • Sensors and Agents
  • Flow Collectors
  • Analytics Engine
  • Open Access

Module 3: Operational Concepts

  • Scopes
  • Tenants
  • RBAC
  • Annotations

Module 4: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Setup and Deployment Models

  • On Premise Options
  • SaaS
  • Cisco Secure Workload Firewall-V
  • Installation Procedure
  • Creating Scopes, Roles, and Users
  • Deploy Hardware Sensors
  • Deploy NetFlow Sensors
  • Deploy ERSPAN Sensors

Module 5: Software Agents

  • Software Agents Overview
  • Software Agents Features
  • Software Agents Configuration

Module 6: Application Dependency Mapping

  • Why ADM?
  • Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Application Insight
  • ADM Process
  • ADM Run Results

Module 7: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Analytics Policy Enforcement Overview

Module 8: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Flow Search

  • Results Filtered by Scope
  • Searching with Conjunctions
  • Flow Explore Integrated
  • User Annotations

Module 9: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Policy Analysis

  • Enable Policy Analysis
  • Live Policy Analysis
  • Backdated Policy Experiments
  • Quick Policy Analysis

Module 10: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Apps and API

  • App Store
  • User Apps
  • Visualize Data Sources
  • Bring your own Data
  • OpenAPI

Module 11: Cisco Secure Workload Firewall Ecosystem

  • Platform Integrations
    • ADCs
    • FW Management Tools
    • Phantom
    • InfoBlox
    • ServiceNow
    • Splunk
    • Turbonomic
    • Veeam
  • Corvil and Extra Hop

Lab Outline:

Labs are designed to assure learners a whole practical experience, through the following practical activities:

  • Lab 1: Exploring the GUI
  • Lab 2: Software Agent Installation
  • Lab 3: Application Dependency Mapping with Agents
  • Lab 4: Enforcement
  • Lab 5: Flow Search
  • Lab 6: Advanced ADM Run
  • Lab 7: Policy Analysis

Course Prerequisites

Top

The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:

  • Familiarity with Data Center Technology
  • Familiarity with Network operation
  • Understanding of basic network security
Cookie Control toggle icon