Securing Email with Cisco Secure Email Gateway v1.1
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CCNP Security - Concentration: SESA 300-720

The Cisco 300-720 SESA (Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance) certification is a concentration exam within the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Security certification track.

Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance (300-720 SESA)

The Cisco 300-720 SESA (Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance) certification is a concentration exam within the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Security certification track. It validates a candidate's skills and knowledge in securing email communication by implementing and troubleshooting Cisco Email Security Appliance (ESA) solutions.

What you’ll learn 

  • Administration
  • Spam Control with Talos SenderBase and Antispam
  • Content and Message Filters
  • LDAP and SMTP Sessions
  • Email Authentication and Encryption
  • System Quarantines and Delivery Methods

Syllabus Summary

System Quarantines and Delivery Methods
  • Configure quarantine (spam, policy, virus, and outbreak)
  • Use safelists and blocklists to control email delivery
  • Manage messages in local or external spam quarantines
  • Configure virtual gateways
Cisco Email Security Appliance Administration

Configure Cisco Secure Email Gateway features

  • Hardware and virtual machine performance specifications
  • Initial configuration process
  • Routing and delivery features
  • GUI
  • Manage certificate authorities
  • Logging

Describe centralized services on a Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager

Configure mail policies

  • Incoming and outgoing messages
  • User matching
  • Message splintering

Integrate Cisco Secure Email Gateway with SecureX

Configure Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense

Spam Control with Talos SenderBase and Antispam
  • Control spam with Talos SenderBase and Antispam
  • Describe graymail management solution
  • Configure file reputation filtering and file analysis features
  • Implement malicious or undesirable URLs protection
  • Describe the bounce verification feature
Content and Message filters
  • Describe the functions and capabilities of content filters
  • Create text resources such as content dictionaries, disclaimers, and templates

o Dictionary filter rules

o Text resources management

  • Configure message filters components, rules, processing order, and attachment scanning
  • Configure scan behavior
  • Configure the Cisco Secure Email Gateway to scan for viruses using Sophos and McAfee scanning engines
  • Configure outbreak filters
  • Configure Data Loss Prevention (DLP)
LDAP and SMTP Sessions

Configure and verify LDAP servers and queries (Queries and Directory Harvest Attack)

Understand spam quarantine functions

  • Authentication for end users of spam quarantine
  • Use spam quarantine alias to consolidate queries

Understand SMTP functionality

  • Email pipeline
  • Sender and recipient domains
  • SMTP session authentication using client certificates
  • SMTP TLS authentication
  • TLS email encryption
Email Authentication and Encryption
  • Configure Domain Keys and DKIM signing
  • Configure SPF and SIDF
  • Configure DMARC verification
  • Configure forged email detection
  • Configure email encryption
  • Describe S/MIME security services and communication encryption with other MTAs
  • Configure Cisco Secure Email

Required Exam

  • Exam Code: SESA 300-720
  • Duration: 90 minutes
  • Exam Cost: 300 USD

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