Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance

The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) training 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 training 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 training prepares you for the 300-720 SESA v1.1 exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Certified Specialist – Email Content Security certification and satisfy the concentration exam requirement for the CCNP Security certification. This training also earns you 24 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards recertification.

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

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 System (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP, and HTTPS
• Experience with IP routing

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

For any information regarding the Cisco Continuing Education Program and CE-Credits please visit the designated Cisco website.