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Secure Cisco PIX Firewalls - Advanced

Justin Peltier

This class is designed for those who want to know details about the advanced configurations of Cisco PIX firewalls, as well as for technicians who will be designing, implementing or maintaining a PIX Firewall-protected network. The course is also useful for Cisco Channel Partners who sell, implement and maintain Cisco PIX Firewalls, or MIS and technical managers responsible for understanding the network security features that are used in the corporate domain. This course is also applicable for individuals planning to take the Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Advanced exam or students pursuing a CCIE security certification.

Prerequisites
Students in this class should possess Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification or:

  • Possess a working knowledge of basic network security and a solid grasp of TCP/IP and fundamental networking concepts
  • Be familiar with encryption technologies: DES, 3DES, RSA, hashing algorithms (MD5/SHA) and IPSec
  • Have a basic knowledge of the Windows operating system.

Course Outline

Adaptive Security Algorithm (ASA) and security levels

Basic commands for the PIX Firewall (Access Configuration Through the PIX Firewall)

Nat and global

Static and conduit

Configure multiple interfaces

Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

Differences between Authentication, Authorization and Accounting

How users authenticate to the PIX Firewall

How Cut-Through Proxy technology works

Name the AAA protocols supported by PIX Firewall

Install and configure Cisco Secure ACS for Windows NT

Configure AAA on the PIX Firewall

Understand and configure the Access Control List (ACL)

Configure Active Code Filtering (Active X and Java applets)

Configure WebSENSE for URL filtering with the PIX Firewall

The need for advanced protocol handling

How the PIX Firewall handles FTP, RSH and SQL *Net traffic

Configure FTP, RSH, and SQL *Net Fixup protocols

Issues with multimedia applications

How the PIX Firewall handles RTSP and H.323 multimedia protocols

Configure RTSP and H.323 protocols

Name, describe and configure the attack guards in the PIX Firewall

Primary, secondary, active and standby PIX Firewall

How failover works

How configuration replication works

Hailover and stateful failover

Configure the PIX Firewall for stateful failover

Identify the failover interface tests

Cisco Secure Integrated Software

Cisco IOS Firewall

Context-Based Access Control

Configure CBAC

How users authenticate to a CSIS router

How authentication proxy technology works

Configure AAA on a CSIS router

Identify how the PIX Firewall enables a secure VPN

Identify the tasks to configure PIX Firewall IPSec support

Identify the commands to configure PIX Firewall IPSec support

Configure a VPN between PIX Firewalls
You Will Learn How To:
  • Implement and maintain Cisco PIX Firewalls
  • Perform advanced Cisco PIX configurations
  • Design and implement a Cisco PIX VPN

  
 
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