SECUR (Securing Cisco IOS Networks)

  

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Description

SECUR is a course that focuses on how to build and manage enterprise-class security. This course also introduces the emerging security technology and describes how it enhances performance and scalability in campus networks. On completion of this training course, you will be able to connect, configure, and troubleshoot the various security-related elements of an enterprise.

This course is recommended for network administrators and technicians responsible for implementing and troubleshooting complex routed network environments, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP candidates, and CCIE Routing and Switching candidates.

  • Identify network security threats

  • Evaluate a network security policy

  • Secure remote dial-up access using CiscoSecure ACS and Cisco IOS AAA software features

  • Protect Internet access by configuring a Cisco perimeter router and a PIX Firewall

  • Use IPSec features in Cisco IOS software to create a secure VPN

To fully benefit from MCNS, the student should posses the following prerequisite skills and knowledge

  • Internetworking fundamentals

  • Basic routing protocol concepts

  • Basic router configuration

  • Standard and extended access list configuration

  • Cisco Dial-up networking fundamentals recommended
     

Outline

Security Fundamentals

  • Need for network security
  • Network attack taxonomy
  • Network security policy
  • Management protocols and functions

Basic Cisco Router Security

  • Securing Cisco router installations
  • Securing Cisco router administrative access
  • Introduction to AAA for Cisco routers
  • Configuring AAA for Cisco perimeter routers

Advanced AAA Security for Cisco Router Networks

  • Introduction to the Cisco Secure ACS
  • Installing Cisco Secure ACS 3.0 for Windows NT or Windows 2000
  • Administering and troubleshooting Cisco Secure ACS for Windows
  • TACACS+ overview and configuration
  • Verifying TACACS+
  • RADIUS configuration overview

Cisco Router Threat Mitigation

  • Using routers to secure the network
  • Disabling unused router services and interfaces
  • Using Access Lists to mitigate security threats
  • Filtering router service traffic
  • Filtering router network traffic
  • DDoS mitigation
  • Implementing Syslog logging

Cisco IOS Firewall Context-Based Access Control Configuration

  • Context-based access control
  • Global timeouts and thresholds
  • Port-to-application mapping
  • Define inspection rules
  • Inspection rules and ACLs applies to router interfaces

Cisco IOS Firewall Authentication Proxy

  • AAA server configuration
  • AAA configuration
  • Authentication Proxy configuration

Cisco IOS Firewall Intrusion Detection System

  • Initializing the Cisco IOS Firewall IDS
  • Configuring, disabling, and excluding signatures
  • Creating and applying Audit Rules
  • Verifying the configuration

Building IPsec VPNs Using Cisco Routers

  • IPsec fundamentals
  • IPsec protocol framework
  • How IPsec works
  • Configuring IPsec encryption

Building Advanced IPsec VPNs Using Cisco Routers and Certificate Authorities

  • Configure CA support tasks
  • CA support overview

Configuring IOS Remote Access Using the Cisco VPN Client

  • Overview of the Easy VPN Server
  • Overview of the Easy VPN Remote Feature
  • Overview of the Cisco VPN Client
  • How the Cisco Easy VPN works
  • Configuring the Easy VPN Server for Extended Authentication
  • Cisco VPN Client  manual configuration tasks
  • Working with the Cisco VPN  Client

Managing Enterprise VPN Routers

  • Devices and device groups
  • VPN settings
  • Managing configurations
     

Preparation for Exam 642-501.
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