Blue Coat Certified ProxySG Administrator

Reference	BCCPA
Category	Security
Date	From  Monday, September 24, 2012 to Tuesday, September 25, 2012
Schedule	9h00-12h00 et 14h00-17h30
Speaker
Language	Lesson : English   Literature : English
City	LANexpert Lausanne Av. de Provence 4 - 1007 Lausanne Phone: +41 21 623 92 40 Fax: +41 21 623 92 45
Price (CHF)	2,600.00
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Description

Students will become Blue Coat Certified ProxySG Administrators upon completing the course and passing the Prometric online exam.

Audience

IT network or security professionals who wish to master the fundamentals of Blue Coat products with a focus on network security and who have not taken any previous Blue Coat training courses.

Requirements

Students should be familiar with networking essentials, such as LAN, Internet, security, and IP protocols. Basic knowledge of authentication methods is also a plus.

Objectives

1. Describe the major Secure Web Gateway functions of the ProxySG.
2. Describe the role of the ProxySG as it relates to other Blue Coat products as part of a complete security solution.
3. Configure a ProxySG and place it into live service.
4. Administer the major Secure Web Gateway functions of the ProxySG
5. Perform basic troubleshooting of the ProxySG and decide when it is appropriate to open a service request.

Program

Module 1: Introduction to the ProxySG

- Strong user authentication

- Web filtering; deep inspection of content for data loss or threats

- Security checks to the WebPulse collaborative cloud defense

- Inspection and validation of SSL traffic

- Content caching and traffic optimization

- Bandwidth management

- Streaming media splitting and caching

- Method-level controls per protocol

- The ability to filter, strip, or replace Web content

Module 2: ProxySG Security Deployments

- Planning and designing

Module 3: ProxySG Initial Security Configuration

- Configure the operating software of the appliance

Module 4: ProxySG Management Console

- ProxySG graphical user interface

Module 5: ProxySG Security Licensing

- What types of licenses Blue Coat offers, and how each type of license is acquired.

Module 6: Proxy Services

- Background of the services framework

- Service ports, service port actions, and proxy service attributes

Module 7: Introduction to the Visual Policy Manager

- Control Web protocols and Web communications

- VPM and its key concepts

Module 8: Content Filtering and WebPulse

- Define how the ProxySG uses the information returned by WebPulse

- How the ProxySG communicates with the various components of WebPulse

Module 9: Authenticating Users on the ProxySG

- Introducing the concept of an authentication realm

- Local realms

* Lab - Exercice

- Students create a local realm and write policy to authenticate against it.

Module 10: IWA and LDAP Authentication Realms

- Configuring the ProxySG to support authentication servers that already have been deployed in the organization

- Authentication using only an explicit proxy deployment

Module 11: Exceptions and Notifications

- Concepts of exception pages and Notify User objects

Module 12: Access Logging

- What access logs are, how they are used, and describes the various access logging features on the ProxySG.

- Overview of access logging and explaination of some common log file terminology.

Module 13: Managing SSL Traffic

- Basic operation of the SSL proxy

- Configure the ProxySG to intercept, decode, and process HTTPS traffic

Module 14: IPv6 in ProxySG Security Deployments

- Overview of the IPv6 capabilities of the ProxySG

Module 15: Basic ProxySG Troubleshooting

- Common issues that can arise with the ProxySG.