VMware NSX for Intrinsic Security [V4.x]

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$4,250.00 USD

Duration
5 Days

Delivery Methods
Virtual Instructor Led
Private Group

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Course Overview

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® for intrinsic security. This course introduces all the security features in NSX, including Distributed Firewall and Gateway Firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS), NSX Application Platform, NSX Malware Prevention, VMware NSX® Intelligence™, and VMware NSX® NDR™. In addition, this course presents common configuration issues and gives a methodology to resolve them.

Course Objectives

Define the concepts related to information security
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
Use NSX segmentation to implement Zero-Trust Security
Configure user and role management
Configure and troubleshoot Distributed Firewall, Identity Firewall, and time-based policies
Configure and troubleshoot Gateway Security
Use VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs and VMware Aria Operations™ for Networks 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 NDR

Who Should Attend?

Experienced security administrators

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Course Prerequisites

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

Agenda

Course Introduction

Introduction and course logistics
Course objectives

Security Basics

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

VMware Intrinsic Security

Define the VMware intrinsic security strategy
Describe the VMware intrinsic security portfolio
Explain how NSX aligns with the intrinsic security strategy

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

User and Role Management

Integrate NSX and VMware Identity Manager™
Integrate NSX and LDAP
Describe the native users and roles in NSX
Create and assign custom user roles
Explain object-based RBAC in a multitenancy environment

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
Configure the distributed firewall to block malicious IPs

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

Operating Internal Firewalls

Use VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Operations for Networks to operate NSX firewalls
Explain security best practices related to grouping, tagging, and rule configuration

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

Endpoint Protection

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

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

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

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

NSX Intelligence and NSX NDR

Describe NSX Intelligence and its use cases
Explain NSX Intelligence visualization, recommendation, and network traffic analysis capabilities
Describe NSX NDR and its use cases
Explain the architecture of NSX NDR in NSX
Describe the visualization capabilities of NSX NDR