Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) 3.0

The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) v3.0 course shows you how to deploy and use Cisco® Email Security Appliance to establish protection for your email systems against phishing, business email compromise, and ransomware, and to help streamline email security policy management. This hands-on course provides you with the knowledge and skills to implement, troubleshoot, and administer Cisco Email Security Appliance, including key capabilities such as advanced malware protection, spam blocking, anti-virus protection, outbreak filtering, encryption, quarantines, and data loss prevention.

This course helps you prepare to take the exam, Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (300-720 SESA), which leads to CCNP® Security and the Certified Specialist – Email Content Security certifications.

What to expect in the exam

The 300-720 SESA exam certifies your knowledge of Cisco Email Security Appliance, including administration, spam control and anti-spam, message filters, data loss prevention, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), email authentication and encryption, and system quarantines and delivery methods. The exam will be available beginning February 24, 2020.

After you pass 300-720 SESA:

You earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Email Content Security

You will have satisfied the concentration exam requirement for the new CCNP Security certification. To complete your CCNP Security certification, pass the Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (300-701 SCOR) exam or its equivalent.

After taking this course, you should be able to:

Describe and administer the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)

Control sender and recipient domains

Control spam with Talos SenderBase and anti-spam

Use anti-virus and outbreak filters

Use mail policies

Use content filters

Use message filters to enforce email policies

Prevent data loss

Perform LDAP queries

Authenticate Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) sessions

Authenticate email

Encrypt email

Use system quarantines and delivery methods

Perform centralized management using clusters

Test and troubleshoot

Describing the Cisco Email Security Appliance

Administering the Cisco Email Security Appliance

Controlling Sender and Recipient Domains

Controlling Spam with Talos SenderBase and Anti-Spam

Using Anti-Virus and Outbreak Filters

Using Mail Policies

Using Content Filters

Using Message Filters to Enforce Email Policies

Preventing Data Loss

Using LDAP

SMTP Session Authentication

Email Authentication

Email Encryption

Using System Quarantines and Delivery Methods

Centralized Management Using Clusters

Testing and Troubleshooting

References

Audience

• Security engineers
• Security administrators
• Security architects
• Operations engineers
• Network engineers
• Network administrators
• Network or security technicians
• Network managers
• System designers
• Cisco integrators and partners

Prerequisites

To fully benefit from this course, you should have one or more of the following basic technical competencies:

• Cisco certification (Cisco CCENT® certification or higher)
• Relevant industry certification, such as (ISC)², CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), and ISACA
• Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA® 1 and CCNA 2)
• Windows expertise: Microsoft [Microsoft Specialist, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)], CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)

The knowledge and skills that a student must have before attending this course are:

• TCP/IP services, including Domain Name Servers (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP, and HTTPS
• Experience with IP routing

Cisco learning offerings that contribute to recommended skills and knowledge:

• Email Security Training resources

Schedule & Fees