CCNP Security - Concentration: SWSA 300-725

The CCNP Security 300-725 (SWSA) certification exam is focused on Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA).

Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance (300-725 SWSA)

The Cisco 300-725 SWSA (Securing the Web with Cisco Web Security Appliance) is a certification exam that tests a candidate's knowledge and skills in securing web traffic using Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA). This certification is part of the Cisco Certified Specialist - Web Content Security certification and also contributes towards the Cisco Certified CyberOps Professional and Cisco Certified Security Professional certifications.

What you’ll learn

Features
Configuration
Proxy Services
Authentication
Decryption Policies to Control HTTPS Traffic
Differentiated Traffic Access Policies and Identification Profiles
Acceptable Use Control
Malware Defense
Reporting and Tracking Web Transactions

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Syllabus Summary

Cisco WSA Features

• Describe Cisco Secure Web Appliance features and functionality

Proxy service
Cognitive Intelligence (formerly Cognitive Threat Analytics)
Data loss prevention service
Integrated L4TM service
Management tools

• Describe Secure Web Appliance solutions

Cisco Advanced Web Security Reporting
Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager

• Integrate Cisco Secure Web Appliance with Advanced Web Security Reporting

• Integrate Cisco Secure Web Appliance with Cisco ISE

• Troubleshoot data security and external data loss using log files

Configuration

Perform initial configuration tasks on Cisco Secure Web Appliance
Configure an access policy
Configure and verify web proxy features

o Explicit proxy functionality

o Proxy access logs using CLI

o Active directory proxy authentication

Configure a referrer header to filter web categories

Proxy Services

• Describe deployment options

Explicit proxy
Transparent proxy
Upstream proxy
High availability

• Describe these features:

Tune caching
IP spoofing
Web proxy ports
Range requests

• Describe the functions of a Proxy Auto-Configuration (PAC) file

• Describe the SOCKS protocol and the SOCKS proxy services

Authentication

• Describe authentication features

Supported authentication methods
Authentication realms
Supported authentication surrogates supported
Bypassing authentication of problematic agents
Authentication logs for accounting records
Re-authentication

• Configure traffic redirection to Cisco Secure Web Appliance using transparent proxy with WCCP, PBR, or an L4 switch

• Describe the FTP proxy authentication

• Troubleshoot authentication issues

Decryption Policies to Control HTTPS Traffic

• Describe SSL and TLS inspection

• Configure HTTPS capabilities

HTTPS decryption policies
HTTPS proxy function
ACL tags for HTTPS inspection
HTTPS proxy and verify TLS/SSL decryption
Certificate types used for HTTPS decryption

• Configure self-signed and intermediate certificates within SSL/TLS transactions

Differentiated Traffic Access Policies and Identification Profiles

Describe access policies
Describe identification profiles and authentication
Troubleshoot using access logs

Acceptable Use Control

Configure URL filtering
Configure time-based and traffic volume acceptable use policies and end user notifications
Configure web application visibility and control (Office 365, third-party feeds)
Create a corporate global acceptable use policy
Implement policy trace tool to verify corporate global acceptable use policy
Configure Secure Web Appliance to inspect archive file types

Malware Defense

Describe scanning engines
Configure file reputation filtering and file analysis
Describe Cisco Secure Endpoint
Describe integration with Cognitive Intelligence

Reporting and Tracking Web Transactions

Configure and analyze web tracking reports
Configure Cisco Advanced Web Security Reporting (AWSR)

o Basic web usage

o Custom filters

Troubleshoot connectivity issues
Interpret system health using the System Health Dashboard
Describe REST API support

Required Exam

Exam Code: SWSA 300-725
Duration: 90 minutes
Exam Cost: 300 USD

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