This is a Cisco Proctored lab that will be held virtual via WebEx. The Lab will start with a quick walkthrough of the Cisco Secure Firewall portfolio and introduction to dCloud.

 

This lab covers the key tasks required to bring a newly installed FMC and FTD to an operational state. It is intended to walk the user through the various tasks required to ensure you have a functional and secure firewall.

There are a number of scenarios available which are outlined below. Users should start at the beginning which will take you through initial setup of the FMC, device registration, zone and interface setup, routing and NAT policies. You can then proceed to configuring threat protection such as Discovery policy, Intrusion policy using Snort 3, Malware & File policy, Security Intelligence, Decryption policy and finally Access Control rules and advanced settings.

 

To accomplish this  lab, we will use the Cisco dCloud lab environment. There are a number of VMs deployed including Firewall Management Center (FMC), FTD devices, as well as Windows Domain Controllers and other Windows and Linux hosts. You will be provided a lab pod in the begining of the lab. The pod will be active to 23:30 the same day of the lab. If you want to do the lab again you can schedule a pod by your selfe.

 

• Initial Configuration

◦ FMC configuration

◦ Network Object creation and Variable Set

◦ Security Zones

◦ Basic Access Control

◦ Device registration

◦ Platform settings

• Network Configuration

◦ Interface, Routes and NAT

• Threat Configuration

◦ Network Discovery policy

◦ Malware & File policy

◦ Decryption policy

◦ Intrusion/Network Analysis policy

• Access Control

◦ Access Control Policy Settings

◦ Rules

◦ Encrypted Visibility Engine