Get an overview of essential Cisco firewall technologies, from firewall architecture to firewall security contexts and the basics of firewall configuration.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Allowing only authorized connections
- Discovering resources
- Obtaining Packet Tracer
- Understanding firewalls
- Recognizing security contexts
- Reviewing CBAC
- Challenge: Configuring CBAC
- Solution: Configuring CBAC
- Employing Cisco AutoSecure
- Filtering packets
- Monitoring the state
- Examining the application layer
- Comparing modes of deployment
- Understanding ACLs
- Working with IPv6 ACLs
- Challenge: Configuring IPv6 ACLs
- Solution: Configuring IPv6 ACLs
- Understanding NAT
- Comparing types of NAT
- Challenge: Configuring static NAT
- Solution: Configuring static NAT
- Understanding zone-based firewalls
- Managing traffic between zones
- Challenge: Configuring a ZBF
- Solution: Configuring a ZBF
- Managing access on an ASA
- Logging onto the ASA
- Assigning security levels on the ASA
- Understanding Modular Policy Framework (MPF)
- Implementing high availability
- Grasping Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP)
- Challenge: Hot Standby Router Protocol
- Solution: Hot Standby Router Protocol
- Next steps
Taught by
Lisa Bock