Designing and Implementing Secure Cloud Access for Users and Endpoints

This training will help you:

• Attain skills for designing and implementing cloud security architecture, user and device security, network and cloud security, cloud application and data security, cloud visibility and assurance, and responding to cloud threats
• Gain knowledge for protocols, solutions, and designs to acquire professional-level and expert-level cloud design and implementation roles

After completing this training, you should be able to:

• Compare and contrast the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) security frameworks, and understand the importance of adopting standardized frameworks for cybersecurity in enhancing an organization's security posture
• Describe the Cisco Security Reference Architecture and its five main components
• Describe commonly deployed use cases and recommend the necessary capabilities within an integrated security architecture to address them effectively
• Describe the Cisco Secure Architecture for Everyone (SAFE) architecture
• Review the benefits, components, and process of certificate-based authentication for both users and devices
• Enable Duo multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect an application from the Duo Administration Portal, and then configure the application to use Duo MFA for user login authentication
• Install Cisco Duo and implement its multifactor authentication on remote access virtual private network (VPN)
• Configure endpoint compliance
• Review and demonstrate the ability to understand Stateful Switchover (SSO) using security assertion markup language (SAML) or OpenID Connect together with Cisco Duo
• Describe Cisco software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) on-box and integrated threat prevention security services
• Describe SD-WAN on-box and integrated content filtering security services
• Describe the features and capabilities of Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG), such as DNS Security, Cloud-Delivered Firewall (CDFW), intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and interaction with Cisco SD-WAN
• Introduce the reverse proxy for internet-facing applications protections
• Explore the Cisco Umbrella SIG use case to secure cloud application access, the limitations and benefits of the solution, and the features available to discover and control access to cloud delivered applications
• Explore the Cisco ThousandEyes capabilities for monitoring the Cisco SD-WAN deployment
• Describe the challenges of accessing SaaS applications in modern business environments and explore the Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp for SaaS solution with direct or centralized internet access
• Introduce the Cisco Secure Firewall platforms, use cases, and security capabilities
• Demonstrate a comprehesive understanding of web application firewalls
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Cisco Secure Workload capabilities, deployment options, agents, and connectors
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Cisco Secure Workload application dependency mapping and policy discovery
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of common cloud attack tactics and mitigation strategies
• Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of multicloud security requirements and policy capabilities
• Introduce the security issues with the adoption of public clouds and common capabilities of cloud visibility and assurance tools to mitigate these issues
• Introduce Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Security Analytics and Logging
• Describe Cisco Attack Surface Management
• Describe how Application Program Interfaces (APIs) and automation can help in troubleshooting cloud policy, especially in the context of misconfigurations
• Demonstrate a comprehensive knowledge of the appropriate responses to cloud threats in specific scenarios
• Demonstrate the comprehensive knowledge required to use automation for cloud threat detection and response

• Network Engineers
• Network Security Engineers
• Network Architects
• Sales/Presales Engineers

The knowledge and skills you are expected to have before attending this training are:
• Basic understanding of enterprise routing
• Basic understanding of WAN networking
• Basic understanding of Cisco SD-WAN
• Basic understanding of Public Cloud services
These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offerings:
• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions 1.0
• Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions 2.0
• Cisco SD-WAN Operation and Deployment 1.0

Course Outline 1. Industry Security Frameworks 2. Cisco Security Reference Architecture Fundamentals 3. Cisco Security Reference Architecture Common Use Cases 4. Cisco SAFE Architecture 5. Certificate-Based User and Device Authentication 6. Cisco Duo Multifactor Authentication for Application Protection 7. Cisco Duo with AnyConnect VPN for Remote Access 8. Introducing Cisco ISE Endpoint Compliance Services 9. SSO using SAML or OpenID Connect 10. Deploying On-Premises Threat Prevention 11. Examining Content Filtering 12. Exploring Cisco Umbrella SIG 13. Reverse Proxy 14. Securing Cloud Application with Cisco Umbrella SIG 15. Exploring Cisco SD-WAN ThousandEyes 16. Optimizing SaaS Applications 17. Security Policies for Remote Access VPN 18. Cisco Secure Access 19. Cisco Secure Firewall 20. Web Application Firewall 21. Cisco Secure Workload Deployments, Agents, and Connectors 22. Cisco Secure Workload Structure and Policy 23. Cloud Security Attacks and Mitigations 24. Multicloud Security Policies 25. Cloud Visibility and Assurance 26. Cisco Secure Network Analytics and Cisco Secure Analytics and Logging 27. Cisco XDR 28. Cisco Attack Surface Management 29. Cloud Applications and Data Access Verifications 30. Automation of Cloud Policy 31. Response to Cloud Threats 32. Automation of Cloud Threat Detection and Response Lab Outline 1. Explore Cisco SecureX 2. Windows Client BYOD Onboarding Interactive Activity 3. Use Cisco Duo MFA to Protect the Splunk Application 4. Integrate the Cisco Duo Authentication Proxy to Implement MFA for Cisco Security Secure Firewall AnyConnect Remote Access VPN 5. Configure Cisco ISE Compliance Services 6. Configure Threat Prevention 7. Implement Web Security 8. Deploy DIA Security with Unified Security Policy 9. Configure Cisco Umbrella DNS Policies 10. Deploy Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway 11. Implement CASB Security 12. Microsoft 365 SaaS Testing by Using Cisco ThousandEyes 13. Configure Remote Access VPN on the Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense 14. Configure Cisco Secure Firewall Policies 15. Explore Cisco Secure Workload 16. Explore the ATT&CK Matrix Cloud-Based Techniques 17. Explore Cisco Secure Network Analytics 18. Explore Cisco XDR Incident Response Tasks