Cisco Secure Access (SSE) Stage 1

In this one-day hands-on workshop, participants will be introduced to cloud security and various security services provided by Cisco’s SSE solution. This workshop will have 20% theory to cover concepts followed by 80% hands on labs throughout the day. An overview of multi-functional security services using Secure Access dashboard will be provided. Instructor will provide a brief overview of the lab environment and the intent of the exercises. Each participant will be provided with an independent virtual environment lab to explore and exercise their knowledge on security to complete the labs with minimal instructions.

Learning Objectives:

Objective is to provide key security concepts and provide participants 80% of workshop time to exercise security policies on a lab network:

Understand an overall Secure Access (SSE) Solution
Create, enforce and validate a Private Access policy
Create, enforce and validate a Cloud Delivered Secure Access Internet policy in SD-WAN environment

I. Workshop Training Modules

Day 1

Module I: Overview of Cisco Secure Access

Secure Access Overview
Identity Types
Secure Access policy configuration
Connect: Network connections, Users and Groups, Endpoint users, ZTNA
Resources: Networks, Destinations
Policy: Access policies to internet destinations, domains, security profiles
Reports: Logs, activities, content categories
Workflows

Module II: Hands on Lab with Secure Access – Private Access Policy

Lab Environment with virtual SD-WAN distributed network with Secure Access
Explore Secure Access Dashboard
Firewall Policy – Private Access Policy
Create Policy
Enforce policy on specific identities
Verify policy enforcement
Monitor policy with Activity Search

Module III: Hands on Lab with Cloud Delivered Secure Access – Internet Policy

Lab environment for Internet Security Policy
Explore Secure Access Dashboard
Create Identity list for policy enforcement
Create a custom policy to filter specific type of traffic and destinations
Block or allow application family
Block or allow specific content categories, domains
Handle Exceptions
Build Custom Block Page
Enforce policy on specific identities
Verify policy enforcement
Monitor policy with activity search

II. Target Audience

SecOps Engineers	Operators	SRE
Security Admin/Operators	Network Admin/Engineers/Operators	Cloud Engineers

IV. Skill Level:

Internet Access to Lab setup on Cloud, SSH connectivity to Lab VM
Familiarity with the Unix command line, A modern computer (recent Linux, macOS, or Windows 10)
Exposure to security concepts and basic knowledge of Secure Access

IV. Prerequisites:

Understanding Cisco security products. Basic knowledge of general security landscape and Secure Access.

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Good Content, very good introduction part about SD-WAN

The instructors demonstrated profound knowledge about the topic, labs were well prepared

The whole lab was excellently organized and set up. Kudos to the team!

Cisco Secure Access (SSE) Stage 1

Learning Objectives:

I. Workshop Training Modules

Day 1

II. Target Audience

IV. Skill Level:

IV. Prerequisites:

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