Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- Articulate the Cisco ESA product, including management series, SMTP conversation, terms and definitions, pipeline, and licensing
- Administer the Cisco ESA
- Explain the differences between the HAT and the RAT
- Discuss SensorBase and the antispam engine, make adjustments to the HAT, and the anti-spam policies, manage the spam quarantine both locally or using the management series
- Enable one or both antivirus engines, use one or both antivirus engines in mail policies, and identify best practices for managing antivirus
- Separate enterprise groups with different filtering requirements
- Describe content filters
- Describe the RSA DLP engine, and prevent the loss of sensitive data in outbound email through the use of the RSA DLP engine
- Configure LDAP to control the flow of email, and configure LDAP to enforce user access polices
- Configure TLS to encrypt email, configure the Cisco Email Security Appliance to work with the Cisco Registered Envelope Service to encrypt mail, and use DKIM and SPF to authenticate email
- Identify message filters in the Cisco Email Security Appliance and create and manage message filters
- Recognize different quarantines, explain how space is allocated to quarantines, create custom quarantines, and identify different delivery methods
- Create a clustered environment and manage a clustered environment
- Troubleshoot using several advanced troubleshooting tools
