Maricopa Community Colleges  CNT182   20056-99999 

Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval:  12-8-2009

CNT182  2010 Spring – 2011 Summer II

L+L  4.0 Credit(s)  5.0 Period(s)  4.7 Load  Occ

Cisco Secure Firewall Appliance Configuration

Applications of Cisco Networking technologies in designing and implementing security solutions to reduce risk of revenue loss and vulnerability. Hands-on experience and skills in security policy design and management, security technologies, products and solutions, secure firewall design, installation, configuration and maintenance, Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA), Failover, and Virtual Private Network (VPN) implementation using firewalls.

Prerequisites: CNT170 or permission of Instructor.

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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

 

CNT182  2010 Spring – 2011 Summer II

Cisco Secure Firewall Appliance Configuration

 

1.         Explain Network Security and the Cisco Firewall Appliance (I)

2.         Configure, verify and troubleshoot basic firewall operations (II)

3.         Explain firewall concepts and technologies, and describe how transport protocols function though a firewall. (III)

4.         Configure Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation (PAT) on the firewall. (III)

5.         Configure, verify, and troubleshoot multiple interfaces and access through a firewall. (III)

6.         Configure Content Filtering, Application Inspection, and Access Control Lists (ACLs) in a variety of scenarios. (IV)

7.         Configure object groups and nested object groups. (IV)

8.         Configure and troubleshoot authentication, authorization, and accounting on the firewall. (V)

9.         Configure a firewall to support advanced protocols and multimedia applications. (VI)

10.       Configure attack guards, intrusion detection and syslog on a firewall. (VI)

11.       Explain how failover works and the different Firewall Failover Roles. (VII)

12.       Configure LAN-based failover. (VII)

13.       Configure, test and verify Internet Key Exchange (IKE) and Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) parameters to create a site-to-site and remote access Virtual Private Network (VPN). (VIII)

14.       Perform password recovery, image upgrades, remote maintenance, management, and activation keys upgrades on a firewall. (IX)

 

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MCCCD Official Course Outline:

 

CNT182  2010 Spring – 2011 Summer II

Cisco Secure Firewall Appliance Configuration

 

I.          Overview of Network Security

            A.        Weakness, threats, and improper use of the network

            B.        Security framework , products, and policy

II.        Firewall Security Appliance Basics

            A.        The Cisco Firewall Appliance

            B.        Routing configuration

            C.        Multicast Configuration

            D.        Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP)

III.       Firewall Appliance Translations and Connections

            A.        Transport protocols

            B.        Network Address Translation (NAT)

            C.        Configuring Domain Name Service (DNS) Support

            D.        Connections

            E.         Port Address Translation (PAT)

            F.         Multiple Interfaces on a Firewall Appliance

            G.        Firewall Transparent Mode

            H.        Security Content

IV.       Access Control Lists for the Firewall Appliance

            A.        Access Control Lists and the Firewall Appliance

            B.        Using Access Control List (ACLs)

            C.        Filtering Content

            D.        Object grouping

            E.         Application Inspection

V.        Firewall Appliance Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA)

            A.        Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA)

            B.        Authentication configuration

            C.        Authorization and accounting configuration

VI.       Firewall Appliance Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS)

            A.        ACS Advanced protocols

            B.        Multimedia support

            C.        Attack guards

            D.        Intrusion Detection

            E.         Syslog configuration

VII.     Firewall Appliance Failover

            A.        Understand failover

            B.        Firewall Failover Roles

            C.        LAN-based Failover

VIII.    Firewall Appliance Virtual Private Network (VPN)

            A.        Enabling a secure Virtual Private Network (VPN)

            B.        Tasks to configure Virtual Private Network (VPN)

IX.       Firewall Security Appliance Management and System Maintenance

            A.        Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

            B.        Password Recovery and Upgrade

            C.        System maintenance via remote access

 

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