(SESA) Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance
Secure your email systems against phishing and ransomware with Cisco SESA. Our hands-on training equips you to manage top-tier email protection.
Duration
4 days
Version
3.2
CE Credits
24
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CLCs
36
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Course Overview
The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) is an instructor-led or virtual instructor-led course that shows you how to deploy and use Cisco Email Security Appliance to establish protection for your email systems against phishing, business email compromise, and ransomware, and to help streamline email security policy management.
This hands-on course provides you with the knowledge and skills to implement, troubleshoot, and administer Cisco Email Security Appliance, including key capabilities such as advanced malware protection, spam blocking, anti-virus protection, outbreak filtering, encryption, quarantines, and data loss prevention.
This class will help you:
- Deploy high-availability email protection against the dynamic, rapidly changing threats affecting your organization
- Gain leading-edge career skills focused on enterprise security
- Prepare for the 300-720 SESA v1.1 exam
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Dates and Prices
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14.04.2025 - 17.04.2025 |
English |
Online, GMT+2 |
2480 € 2510 $ |
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20.10.2025 - 23.10.2025 |
English |
Online, GMT+1 |
2480 € 2510 $ |
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- 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
Who should enroll?
- Security engineers
- Security administrators
- Security architects
- Operations engineers
- Network engineers
- Network administrators
- Network or security technicians
- Network managers
- System designers
- Cisco integrators and partners
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Course Outline
- Describing the Cisco Email Security Appliance
- Controlling Sender and Recipient Domains
- Controlling Spam with Talos SenderBase and Anti-Spam
- Using Anti-Virus and Outbreak Filters
- Using Mail Polices
- Using Content Filters
- Using Message Filters
- Preventing Data Loss
- Using LDAP
- Describing SMTP Session Authentication
- Using Email Authentication
- Using Email Encryption
- Administering the Cisco Email Security Appliance
- Using System Quarantines and Delivery Methods
- Centralizing Management Using Clusters
- Testing and Troubleshooting
Lab Outline
- Verify and Test Cisco ESA Configuration
- Perform Basic Administration
- Advanced Malware in Attachments (Macro Detection)
- Protect Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs Beneath Shortened URLs
- Protect Against Malicious or Undesirable URLs Inside Attachments
- Intelligently Handle Unscannable Messages
- Leverage AMP Cloud Intelligence Via Pre-Classification Enhancement
- Integrate Cisco ESA with AMP Console
- Prevent Threats with Anti-Virus Protection
- Applying Content and Outbreak Filters
- Configure Attachment Scanning
- Configure Outbound Data Loss Prevention
- Integrate Cisco ESA with LDAP and Enable the LDAP Accept Query
- Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM)
- Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
- Forged Email Detection
- Configure the Cisco SMA for Tracking and Reporting
Prerequisite Knowledge
To fully benefit from this course, you should have one or more of the following basic technical competencies:
- Cisco certification (Cisco CCENT certification or higher)
- Relevant industry certification, such as (ISC)2, CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIACRelevant industry certification, such as (ISC)2, CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), and ISACA), and ISACA
- Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA 1 and CCNA 2)
- Windows expertise: Microsoft [Microsoft Specialist, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)], CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)
The knowledge and skills that a student must have before attending this course are:
- TCP/IP services, including Domain Name System (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP, and HTTPS
- Experience with IP routing
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