Introducing Cisco ASA Firewall Appliacne

The Cisco ASA Firewall Administrator course provides an understanding of basic concepts and skills necessary to configure the Cisco ASA Security Firewall, configure Security Policies, NAT, and learn about managing and monitoring secure networks.

This Course covers the following topics:

Describe the Adaptive Security Architecture

Understand the traffic flow between interfaces with the Help of Security Levels

Understand and configure the required parameters for bringing an interface to handle traffic

Understand device administration (OOB and IB)

Configure remote administration protocols (telnet, ssh and ASDM)

Understand and configure static routing

Describe Recursive Route Lookup and configure default route.

Configure dynamic routing protocols

Understand why ICMP reply is messages are not allowed? Configure the ASA to allow ICMP reply packets.

Understand the need of Security Policies

Understand 3 different components of a rule

Configure security policies to explicitly permit or deny traffic

Understand significance of rule position and reordering of rules

Understand the need of Network Address Translation

Understand Unidirectional and Bi-directional NAT

Differentiate Object NAT (Automatic NAT) and Manual NAT

Hide NAT vs Static NAT

Understand the 3 different sections in NAT Policy, and placing Manual NAT rules above and below Automatic NAT section.

Configuring Object NAT

Configuring Manual NAT

Understanding how a single IP could be used to map with multiple servers based on service and configuring Static PAT

Understanding and configuring Port Redirection.