Overview
The Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Security and Cloud Solutions (SDWSCS) training teaches you advanced knowledge and skills related to Cisco software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) security and cloud services. Through a series of labs and lectures, you will learn about on-box security services, including application-aware enterprise firewall, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, malware protection, and Transport Layer Security (TLS) or Secure Socket Layer (SSL) decryption. You will also learn about cloud integration with multiple cloud service providers across multiple use cases.
Additionally, the labs will allow you to configure and deploy local security services and cloud security services with the Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG), as well as integrate the Cisco SD-WAN fabric with a cloud service provider using the Cisco vManage automated workflows. How You'll Benefit
This training will help you:
- Gain introductory knowledge of the security and cloud services available in Cisco SD-WAN
- Expand your knowledge of integrated security services, such as the application aware firewall and intrusion prevention and cloud and collocated security services in on-premises and private or public cloud environments
- Understand drivers, benefits, available features, and architecture of Cisco SD-WAN integrated and distributed security and cloud networking services
- Gain leading-edge skills for high-demand responsibilities focused on security and cloud services
- Earn 24 CE credits towards recertification
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you should have a:
- Basic understanding of enterprise routing
- Basic understanding of WAN networking
- Basic understanding of Cisco SD-WAN
- Basic understanding of Public Cloud services
These recommended Cisco learning offerings may help students meet these prerequisites:
- Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
- Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions (ENSDWI)
- Cisco SDWAN Fundamentals (SDWFND)
Delegates will learn how to
- Describe Cisco SD-WAN security functions and deployment options
- Understand how to deploy on-premises threat prevention
- Describe content filtering options
- Implement secure Direct Internet Access (DIA)
- Explain and implement service chaining
- Explore Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and identify use cases
- Describe Cisco Umbrella SIG and deployment options
- Implement Cisco Umbrella SIG and DNS policies
- Explore and implement Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) and identify use cases (including Microsoft 365)
- Discover how to use Cisco ThousandEyes to monitor cloud services
- Configure Cisco ThousandEyes to monitor Microsoft 365 applications
- Examine how to protect and optimize access to the software as a service (SaaS) application with Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp
- Discover and deploy Cloud OnRamp for multi-cloud, including interconnect and collocation use cases
- Examine Cisco SD-WAN monitoring capabilities and features with vManage and vAnalytics
Outline
- Introducing Cisco SD-WAN Security
- Deploying On-Premises Threat Prevention
- Examining Content Filtering
- Exploring Cisco SD-WAN Dedicated Security Options
- Examining Cisco SASE
- Exploring Cisco Umbrella SIG
- Securing Cloud Applications with Cisco Umbrella SIG
- Exploring Cisco SD-Wan ThousandEyes
- Optimizing SaaS Applications
- Connecting Cisco SD-WAN to Public Cloud
- Examining Cloud Interconnect Solutions
- Exploring Cisco Cloud OnRamp for Colocation
- Monitoring Cisco SD-WAN Cloud and Security Solutions

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