SDWSCS – Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Security and Cloud Solutions

Course Overview

The Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Security and Cloud Solutions (SDWSCS) v1.0 course is an advanced training course focused on Cisco SD-WAN security and cloud services. Through a series of labs and lectures you will learn about on-box security services, including application aware enterprise firewall, intrusion prevention, URL filtering, malware protection, and TLS or SSL decryption. You will also learn about cloud integration with multiple cloud services providers and multiple use-cases.

Additionally, the lab will allow you to configure and deploy local security services and cloud security services with the Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG), as well as integrate the Cisco SD-WAN fabric with a cloud service provider using the Cisco vManage automated workflows.

This course will help you:

Introduce you to the security and cloud services available in Cisco SD-WAN.
Expand your knowledge of integrated security services, such as the application aware firewall and intrusion prevention and cloud and collocated security services in on-premises and private or public cloud environments.
Help you understand drivers, benefits, available features, and the architecture of Cisco SD-WAN integrated and distributed security and cloud networking services.

Who should attend

This course is designed for the following roles:

Network engineers
Network security engineers
Network architects
Sales/presales engineers

Prerequisites

Before taking this course, you should have a:

Basic understanding of enterprise routing
Basic understanding of WAN networking
Basic understanding of Cisco SD-WAN
Basic understanding of Public Cloud services
These recommended Cisco learning offerings may help students meet these prerequisites:

Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions (ENSDWI)
Cisco SD-WAN Operation and Deployment (SDWFND)

Course Objectives

After completing the course, you should be able to:

Describe Cisco SD-WAN security functions and deployment options
Understand how to deploy on-premises threat prevention
Describe content filtering options
Implement secure Direct Internet Access (DIA)
Explain and implement service chaining
Explore Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and identify use cases
Describe Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) and deployment options
Implement Cisco Umbrella SIG and DNS policies
Explore and implement Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) and identify use cases (including Microsoft 365)
Discover how to use Cisco ThousandEyes to monitor cloud services
Configure Cisco ThousandEyes to monitor Microsoft 365 applications
Examine how to protect and optimize access to the software as a service (SaaS) application with Cisco SD-WAN Cloud OnRamp
Discover and deploy Cloud OnRamp for multi-cloud, including interconnect and collocation use cases
Examine Cisco SD-WAN monitoring capabilities and features with vManage and vAnalytics.