Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA)

The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) training shows you how to deploy and use Cisco® Secure Email Gateway (formally Cisco® Email Security Appliance) to establish protection for your email systems against phishing, business email compromise, and ransomware, and to help streamline email security policy management. This hands-on training provides you with the knowledge and skills to implement, troubleshoot, and administer Cisco Secure Email Gateway, including key capabilities, such as advanced malware protection, spam blocking, anti-virus protection, outbreak filtering, encryption, quarantines, and data loss prevention.

Course outline

- Describing the Cisco Email Security Appliance
- Controlling Sender and Recipient Domains
- Controlling Spam with Talos SenderBase and Anti-Spam
- Using Anti-Virus and Outbreak Filters
- Using Mail Polices
- Using Content Filters
- Using Message Filters
- Preventing Data Loss
- Using LDAP
- Describing SMTP Session Authentication
- Using Email Authentication
- Using Email Encryption
- Administering the Cisco Email Security Appliance
- Using System Quarantines and Delivery Methods
- Centralizing Management Using Clusters
- Testing and Troubleshooting

Course objectives

Describe and administer the Cisco Secure Email Gateway
Control sender and recipient domains
Control spam with Talos SenderBase and anti-spam
Use anti-virus and outbreak filters
Use mail policies
Use content filters
Use message filters
Prevent data loss
Perform lightweight directory access protocol (LDAP) queries
Authenticate simple mail transfer protocol (SMTP) sessions
Authenticate email
Encrypt email
Use system quarantines and delivery methods
Perform centralized management using clusters
Test and troubleshoot

Who should attend?

Security engineers
Security administrators
Security architects
Operations engineers
Network engineers
Network administrators
Network or security technicians
Network managers
System designers
Cisco integrators and partners

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this training. However, the knowledge and skills you are recommended to have before attending this training are:

Cisco certification, such as Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Cybersecurity certification or higher
Relevant industry certification, such as (ISC)2, CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), and ISACA
Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA® 1 and CCNA 2)
Windows expertise, such as Microsoft [Microsoft Specialist, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)], and CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)
Transmission control protocol/internet protocol (TCP/IP) services, including domain name system (DNS), secure shell (SSH), file transfer protocol (FTP), simple network management protocol (SNMP), hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), and hypertext transfer protocol secure (HTTPS)
Experience with IP routing