Securing Your Email With Cisco IronPort™ C-Series Part I

This comprehensive, two-day training course provides a thorough foundation on how to successfully install, configure, and administrate IronPort email security appliances. At the end of the course, attendees will possess a working knowledge of how to use IronPort email security appliances to successfully manage and troubleshoot email traffic entering and leaving the enterprise network. Attendees will also learn about Internet email concepts and standards, and will receive an overview of other product features that can be used for more customized configurations.

This two-day training course provides a thorough foundation for how to successfully install, configure, and administer IronPort email security appliances. Attendees receive in-depth instruction on the most commonly used product features, with an emphasis on:

• How to deploy IronPort email security appliances in a typical enterprise email environment, including “best practices” for configuration, operation, and system administration.
• How to manage, monitor, and troubleshoot the flow of email through IronPort email security appliances.
• How to configure access control policies to eliminate threats at the perimeter, based on the identity and trustworthiness of the sender.
• How to create content filters to implement and enforce corporate email policies.
• How to configure IronPort email security appliances to detect and handle unwanted spam and viruses.
• How to use IronPort's reputation-based services, SenderBase and Virus Outbreak Filters, to increase the security of your email network.
• How to use reporting to document email traffic trends.
• How to use Message Tracking to search on a specific email or category of email.
• How to set delivery parameters for outgoing mail.

Extensive lab exercises provide attendees with skills for installing, configuring and administering IronPort email security appliances. At the end of the course, attendees will possess a working knowledge of how to use IronPort email security appliances to successfully manage and troubleshoot email traffic entering and leaving the enterprise network.

• Enterprise messaging managers and system administrators
• Email system designers and architects
• Network managers responsible for messaging implementation

It is assumed that attendees possess the following background knowledge and skills:

• A moderate knowledge of TCP/IP fundamentals, including IP addressing and sub-netting, static IP routing and DNS.
• Experience with Internet-based messaging, including SMTP, Internet message formats, and MIME message format.
• Familiarity with command line interface (CLI) and graphical user interface (GUI).
• Previous experience with email security would be helpful.

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