NSXTIS4 – VMware NSX for Intrinsic Security v4.x
NSXTIS4 - VMware NSX for Intrinsic Security v4.x
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.
This course is also available in an On Demand format. For more information, select this link: VMware NSX for Intrinsic Security [V4.x] – On Demand.
Product Alignment
VMware NSX 4.1.0
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following 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
Course Outline
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 issue
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