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.
Product Alignment
- VMware NSX 4.1.0
Who should attend
Experienced security administrators
Prerequisites
You should also have the following understanding or knowledge:
- 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
The VMware Certified Technical Associate - Network Virtualization is recommended.
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 Content
- Course Introduction
- Security Basics
- VMware Intrinsic Security
- Implementing Zero-Trust Security
- User and Role Management
- Distributed Firewall
- Gateway Security
- Operating Internal Firewalls
- Network Introspection
- Endpoint Protection
- Intrusion Detection and Prevention
- NSX Application Platform
- NSX Malware Prevention
- NSX Intelligence and NSX NDR