Cisco IronPort E-Learning Training
Cisco IronPort E-Learning courses provide you with valuable technical training and product update information. The courses are Web-based, self-guided modules that are available on-demand, at your own convenience.
The Cisco IronPort e-learning curriculum includes the following:
- Quick Learning Modules (QLM’s): These provide product overview, presentations, discussions, and product release updates.
- E-Tutorials: These tutorials offer simulations and exercises to provide the learner with an interactive online training experience. Select courses also include quizzes to test your knowledge on the topics covered.
| Email Security Courses | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Loss Prevention | This E-Tutorial demonstrates how to configure Data loss prevention and Content filtering for the Cisco IronPort email security appliance. | 23 minutes | Register | |
| Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM) | This E-Tutorial demonstrates how to enable outbound signing of messages for authentication. It shows how to publish DNS text records, verify inbound messages, and how to check that DKIM is working properly. | 8 minutes | Register | |
| Introduction to Email Messaging | This module is designed to provide attendees with a basic understanding of SMTP, Message Bouncing and ESMTP. This is a prerequisite to any Email Security Instructor-led course. |
13 minutes | Register | |
| Safelists/Blocklists | This E-Tutorial demonstrates how end users can block all email from certain senders, and how they can create personal whitelists to bypass spam filtering for other senders. | 9 minutes | Register | |
| Sender Policy Framework (SPF) | This E-Tutorial demonstrates the basics of SPF, and how to configure your appliance to perform SPF verification. This is a prerequisite to any Email Security Instructor-led course. |
25 minutes | Register | |
| Smart Identifiers & Dictionary Weighting | This E-Tutorial demonstrates how to filter and take action on messages containing credit card numbers, ABA, CUISP and Social Security numbers. It also demonstrates how to give some words higher importance when filtering. | 8 minutes | Register | |
| Image Analysis for Email | This E-Tutorial demonstrates how to configure Image Analysis to quarantine and tag messages containing inappropriate, sexual images. It includes a short presentation on logging, testing tips and legal issues surrounding the use of image analysis. | 17 minutes | Register | |
| Web Security Courses | ||||
| Introduction to HTTP/HTTPS | This course is designed to provide attendees with a basic understanding of HTTP, HTTPS, proxy servers and WCCP. This course is a prerequisite for any Web Security Instructor-led training course. |
17 minutes | Register | |
| Reporting with Sawmill | This E-Tutorial demonstrates discusses the basics of how to use the centralized reporting features of Sawmill for the Cisco IronPort web security appliance. It demonstrates how to change log processing options, table options, date ranges and filters. It also shows how to find the data and relationships you are interested in by using zoom-to-reports and overview reports. At the conclusion of this module you will have the opportunity to complete an optional quiz. | 17 minutes | Register | |
| Web Reputation | This E-Tutorial demonstrates how to use SenderBase and web reputation filtering, plus how to customize WBRS in your access policies 5.6.0 and later. | 25 minutes | Register | |
| Sawmill for IronPort 7.3 | The Sawmill for IronPort 7.3 Quick Learning Module provides detailed analysis of web user behavior and malware security provided by Cisco IronPort S-Series Web Security Appliances. This 14-minute course provides a demonstration of the features of Sawmill for IronPort v.7.3. It shows you how to get the most commonly requested information requested by Human Resources, Network Operations and Security Operations Managers by starting out with packaged reports and drilling down to the pertinent information. | 14 minutes | Register | |
| Email Security Courses | ||||
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| Centralized Reporting and Tracking | This module discusses the features of AsyncOS 6.0 as it relates to the C and M-Series. | 60 minutes | Register | |
| Email Encryption | This module discusses how to recognize an Cisco IronPort PXE encrypted message, configure an encryption profile, provision the Cisco Registered Envelope Service (CRES), and associate a content filtering rule with an "Encrypt" action. | 45 minutes | Register | |
| SPF Authentication | This module provides Security Administrators with a basic understanding of SPF / SIDF email authentication. | 20 minutes | Register | |
| What's New in AsyncOS 6.4 for Security Management (Email) | This module discusses the M-Series functionality provided by AsyncOS 6.4 that is related to the Cisco IronPort email security appliance. These features include: Consolidated Appliance Management, Domain Based Overview Report, LDAP Enhancements, Message Tracking Usability Enhancements and Improved Versioning Support. | 17 minutes | Register | |
| What's New in AsyncOS 6.5 | This module is a presentation of the C-Series email security appliance features provided by AsyncOS 6.5, including External Authentication, Delegated Administration, New Cisco IronPort Email Encryption Features, Enhanced Destination Controls, Enhanced System Setup, Accelerated AsyncOS Upgrades and Outbound Spoof Verification. The presentation is followed by a demonstration. | 21 minutes | Register | |
| Web Security Courses | ||||
| Centralized Configuration Manager | This module discusses the Cisco IronPort Central Configuration Manager in AsyncOS 6.2. A 15-minute presentation is followed by an 11-minute product demonstration. | 26 minutes | Register | |
| The Advantages of Next Generation Hardware for Web Security | The Web is more complex; software-as-a-service offerings, Web 2.0 applications, and the breakdown of traditional network perimeters. This audio-only Podcast explains how to protect yourself against the latest threats and why speed is so important. | 11 minutes | Register | |
| Essentials in Web Security | The latest Web threats are trickier than ever. In this audio-only Podcast, Cisco IronPort’s Product Management team discusses the essential layers of a Web security gateway and how you can protect yourselves and your users today. | 12 minutes | Register | |
| What’s New in AsyncOS 5.6 | This module is a presentation of the S-Series web security appliance features provided by AsyncOS 5.6, including Multi-Core Scanning, Time Ranges, Upstream Proxy Groups and Routing Policies, User-Agent Based Identities, and the Policy Trace Tool. The presentation is followed by a 10-minute demonstration of several of the new features. | 24 minutes | Register | |
| What's New in AsyncOS 6.4 for Security Management (Web) | This module discusses the Cisco IronPort Centralized Configuration Manager (ICCM) provided on the M-Series by AsyncOS 6.4. | 27 minutes | Register | |
| What's New in AsyncOS 6.0 for Web | This module discusses the new S-Series features provided by AsyncOS 6.0. These new features include native FTP support and data security. Various authentication, policy and platform enhancements are also discussed. | 12 minutes | Register | |
| What's New in AsyncOS 6.3 for Web | This module discusses the new Cisco IronPort Web Usage Controls. This groundbreaking innovation fundamentally changes the way URL filtering is done on the Cisco IronPort Web Security Appliance. | 16 minutes | Register | |
| What's New in AsyncOS 6.7.3 for Security Management (Web) | This module discusses the M-Series functionality provided by AsyncOS 6.7.3. This new release also extends the scope of S-Series configuration tasks that can now be centralized on the M-Series. | 17 minutes | Register | |