Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA)
Cisco
The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) course shows you how to deploy and use Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) to establish protection for your email systems against phishing, business email compromise, and ransomware, and to help streamline email security policy management. You will learn to implement anti-spam, anti-virus, advanced malware protection, email encryption, and data loss prevention.
Who Should Attend
- Security engineers
- Network engineers
- Email administrators
- Systems engineers
- Anyone pursuing CCNP Security certification
Prerequisites
- CCNA Security or equivalent knowledge
- Basic understanding of email protocols (SMTP, IMAP, POP3)
- Familiarity with TCP/IP networking
What You Will Learn
- Describe Cisco ESA and its role in enterprise email security
- Implement and configure Cisco ESA for inbound and outbound email
- Configure anti-spam and anti-virus policies
- Implement advanced malware protection (AMP) for email
- Configure email authentication: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC
- Implement email encryption using Cisco Registered Envelope Service
- Configure data loss prevention (DLP) for email
- Implement outbreak filters and graymail management
- Configure Cisco ESA reporting and monitoring
- Troubleshoot Cisco ESA deployments
Course Outline
Labs & Practical Exercises
Hands-on labs covering Cisco ESA deployment, mail flow policies, anti-spam, anti-virus, AMP, email authentication, encryption, and DLP. Participants will configure and troubleshoot real-world email security deployments.
Certification & Assessment
Prepares candidates for the Cisco CCNP Security concentration exam (300-720 SESA). Counts towards the CCNP Security certification.