Course Overview
The Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (SESA) v3.1 course shows you how to deploy and use Cisco® Email Security Appliance to establish protection for your email systems against phishing, business email compromise, and ransomware, and to help streamline email security policy management. This hands-on course provides you with the knowledge and skills to implement, troubleshoot, and administer Cisco Email Security Appliance, including key capabilities such as advanced malware protection, spam blocking, anti-virus protection, outbreak filtering, encryption, quarantines, and data loss prevention.
This course helps you prepare to take the exam, Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (300-720 SESA), which leads to CCNP® Security and the Certified Specialist - Email Content Security certifications.
Who should attend
- Security engineers
 - Security administrators
 - Security architects
 - Operations engineers
 - Network engineers
 - Network administrators
 - Network or security technicians
 - Network managers
 - System designers
 - Cisco integrators and partners
 
Certifications
This course is part of the following Certifications:
Prerequisites
To fully benefit from this course, you should have one or more of the following basic technical competencies:
- Cisco certification (Cisco CCENT® certification or higher)
 - Relevant industry certification, such as ISC2, CompTIA Security+, EC-Council, Global Information Assurance Certification (GIAC), and ISACA
 - Cisco Networking Academy letter of completion (CCNA® 1 and CCNA 2)
 - Windows expertise: Microsoft [Microsoft Specialist, Microsoft Certified Solutions Associate (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE)], CompTIA (A+, Network+, Server+)
 
The knowledge and skills that a student must have before attending this course are:
- TCP/IP services, including Domain Name System (DNS), Secure Shell (SSH), FTP, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), HTTP, and HTTPS
 - Experience with IP routing
 
Course Objectives
After taking this course, you should be able to:
- Describe and administer the Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA)
 - Control sender and recipient domains
 - Control spam with Talos SenderBase and anti-spam
 - Use anti-virus and outbreak filters
 - Use mail policies
 - Use content filters
 - Use message filters to enforce email policies
 - Prevent data loss
 - Perform LDAP queries
 - Authenticate Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) sessions
 - Authenticate email
 - Encrypt email
 - Use system quarantines and delivery methods
 - Perform centralized management using clusters
 - Test and troubleshoot
 
Course Benefits
This class will help you:
- Deploy high-availability email protection against the dynamic, rapidly changing threats affecting your organization
 - Gain leading-edge career skills focused on enterprise security
 - Earn 24 Cisco CE credits toward recertification
 
What to expect in the exam
The 300-720 SESA exam certifies your knowledge of Cisco Email Security Appliance, including administration, spam control and anti-spam, message filters, data loss prevention, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), email authentication and encryption, and system quarantines and delivery methods.
After you pass 300-720 SESA:
- You earn the Cisco Certified Specialist - Email Content Security certification.
 - You will have satisfied the concentration exam requirement for the new CCNP Security certification. To complete your CCNP Security certification, pass the Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (350-701 SCOR) exam or its equivalent.