Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance (SWSA)

This is a self-study technical course that is designed for senior engineers and IT professionals. It shows you how to implement, use, and maintain Cisco® Web Security Appliance (WSA), powered by Cisco Talos, to provide advanced protection for business email and control against web security threats. Through a combination of expert instruction and hands-on practice, you’ll learn how to deploy proxy services, use authentication, implement policies to control HTTPS traffic and access, implement use control settings and policies, use the solution’s anti-malware features, implement data security and data loss prevention, perform administration of Cisco WSA solution, and more.

This course helps you prepare to take the exam, Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance (300-725 SWSA), which leads to CCNP Security and the Cisco Certified Specialist - Web Content Security certifications. The exam will be available beginning February 24, 2020.

After completing this course, you should be able to:

•  Describe Cisco WSA • Deploy proxy services
•  Utilize authentication
•  Describe decryption policies to control HTTPS traffic
•  Understand differentiated traffic access policies and identification profiles
•  Enforce acceptable use control settings
•  Defend against malware
•  Describe data security and data loss prevention
•  Perform administration and troubleshooting

This Cisco self-paced course is designed to be as effective as classroom training. Course content is presented in easilyconsumable segments via both Instructor Video and text. Interactivity is enabled through Discovery labs, content review questions, and graded Challenge labs and tests. This makes the learning experience hands-on, increasing course effectiveness, and provides students direct feedback on how well they have mastered the material. And gamification features are built in, including earning badges and a leaderboard, to encourage better performance.