This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in configuring, operating, and troubleshooting VMware NSX-T Data Center for intrinsic security. In this course, you are introduced to all the security features in NSX-T Data Center, including Distributed Firewall and Gateway Firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS), NSX Application Platform, NSX Malware Prevention, VMware NSX Intelligence, and VMware NSX Network Detection and Response. In addition, you are presented with common configuration issues and given a methodology to resolve them.

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Learning Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Define information-security-related concepts
Explain the different types of firewalls and their use cases
Describe the operation of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems
Differentiate between Malware Prevention approaches
Describe the VMware intrinsic security portfolio
Implement Zero-Trust Security using VMware NSX segmentation
Configure user and role management
Configure and troubleshoot Distributed Firewall, Identity Firewall, and time-based policies
Configure and troubleshoot Gateway Security
Use VMware vRealize Log Insight for NSX and VMware vRealize Network Insight to operate NSX firewalls
Explain the security best practices related to grouping, tagging, and rule configuration
Describe north-south and east-west service insertion
Describe endpoint protection
Configure and troubleshoot IDS/IPS
Deploy NSX Application Platform
Configure and troubleshoot NSX Malware Prevention
Describe the capabilities of NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response

1

  • Course Introduction

  • Introductions and course logistics
    Course objectives
2

  • Security Basics

  • Define information-security-related concepts
    Explain the different types of firewalls and their use cases
    Describe the operation of IDS/IPS
    Differentiate between Malware Prevention approaches
3

  • VMware Intrinsic Security

  • Define the VMware intrinsic security strategy
    Describe the VMware intrinsic security portfolio
    Explain how NSX-T Data Center aligns with the intrinsic security strategy
4

  • Implementing Zero-Trust Security

  • Define Zero-Trust Security
    Describe the five pillars of a Zero-Trust Architecture
    Define NSX segmentation and its use cases
    Describe the steps needed to enforce Zero-Trust with NSX segmentation
5

  • User and Role Management

  • Integrate NSX-T Data Center and VMware Identity Manager™
    Integrate NSX-T Data Center and LDAP
    Describe the native users and roles in NSX-T Data Center
    Create and assign custom user roles
6

  • Distributed Firewall

  • Configure Distributed Firewall rules and policies
    Describe the NSX Distributed Firewall architecture
    Troubleshoot common problems related to NSX Distributed Firewall
    Configure time-based policies
    Configure Identity Firewall rules
7

  • Gateway Security

  • Configure Gateway Firewall rules and policies
    Describe the architecture of the Gateway Firewall
    Identify and troubleshoot common Gateway Firewall issues
    Configure TLS Inspection to decrypt traffic for both internal and external services
    Configure URL filtering and identify common configuration issues
8

  • Operating Internal Firewalls

  • Use vRealize Log Insight for NSX and vRealize Network Insight to operate NSX firewalls
    Explain security best practices related to grouping, tagging, and rule configuration
9

  • Network Introspection

  • Explain network introspection
    Describe the architecture and workflows of north-south and east-west service insertion
    Troubleshoot north-south and east-west service insertion
10

  • Endpoint Protection

  • Explain endpoint protection
    Describe the architecture and workflows of endpoint protection
    Troubleshoot endpoint protection
11

  • Intrusion Detection and Prevention

  • Describe the MITRE ATT&CK framework
    Explain the different phases of a cyber attack
    Describe how NSX security solutions can be used to protect against cyber attacks
    Configure and troubleshoot Distributed IDS/IPS
    Configure and troubleshoot North-South IDS/IPS
12

  • NSX Application Platform

  • Describe NSX Application Platform and its use cases
    Identify the topologies supported for the deployment of NSX Application Platform
    Deploy NSX Application Platform
    Explain the NSX Application Platform architecture and services
    Validate the NSX Application Platform deployment and troubleshoot common issues
13

  • NSX Malware Prevention

  • Identify use cases for NSX Malware Prevention
    Identify the components in the NSX Malware Prevention architecture
    Describe the NSX Malware Prevention packet flows for known and unknown files
    Configure NSX Malware Prevention for east-west and north-south traffic
14

  • NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response

  • Describe NSX Intelligence and its use cases
    Explain NSX Intelligence visualization, recommendation, and network traffic analysis capabilities
    Describe NSX Network Detection and Response and its use cases
    Explain the architecture of NSX Network Detection and Response in NSX-T Data Center
    Describe the visualization capabilities of NSX Network Detection and Response

Audience

Experienced security administrators will benefit from this course.

Language

English

Prerequisites

You should also have the following understanding or knowledge: Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols Knowledge and working experience of network security, including: L2 through L7 firewalling Intrusion detection and prevention systems Malware prevention systems Knowledge of and working experience with VMware vSphere environments and KVM-based environments The VMware Certified Technical Associate - Network Virtualization is recommended.

$4,625

Length: 5.0 days (40 hours)

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