The primary audience for this course is as follows:

• Cisco customers who implement and maintain Cisco ASA security appliances

The secondary audience for this course is as follows:

• Cisco channel partners who sell, implement, and maintain Cisco ASA security appliances
• Cisco engineers who support the sale of Cisco ASA security appliances

The knowledge and skills that a learner must have before attending this course are as follows:

• Cisco CCNA certification or the equivalent knowledge
• Basic knowledge of the Microsoft Windows operating system
• Familiarity with networking and security terms and concepts

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Explain the functions of the three types of firewalls used to secure computer networks
• Describe the technology and features of Cisco security appliances
• Given diagrams of networks protected by Cisco ASA and PIX security appliances, explain how each appliance protects network devices from attacks and why each is an appropriate choice for the example network

Day 1

• Lesson 1: Introducing Cisco Security Appliance Technology and Features
• Lesson 2: Introducing the Cisco ASA and PIX Security Appliance Families
• Lesson 3: Getting Started with Cisco Security Appliance
• Lesson 4: Configuring a Security Appliance

Day 2

• Lesson 5: Configuring Translations and Connection Limits
• Lesson 6: Using ACLs and Content Filtering
• Lesson 7: Configuring Object Grouping
• Lesson 8: Switching and Routing on Cisco Security Appliances

Day 3

• Lesson 9: Configuring AAA for Cut-Through Proxy
• Lesson 10: Configuring the Cisco Modular Policy Framework
• Lesson 11: Configuring Advanced Protocol Handling
• Lesson 12: Configuring Threat Detection

Day 4

• Lesson 13: Configuring Site-to-Site VPNs Using Pre-Shared Keys
• Lesson 14: Configuring Security Appliance Remote-Access VPNs
• Lesson 15: Configuring the Cisco ASA Security Appliance for SSL VPN
• Lesson 16: Configuring Transparent Firewall Mode

Day 5

• Lesson 17: Configuring Security Contexts
• Lesson 18: Configuring Failover
• Lesson 19: Managing the Security Appliance