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ACS

Advanced Services Cisco Secure Access Control Server

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3
Days
Hands-On
$3 000.00

This three-day course uses typical network access and device administration scenarios to teach students how to provide and monitor secure access to their network using the Cisco Secure Access Control System v5.3.  The classroom scenarios highlight how to use the ACS servers to secure and monitor wired/wireless 802.1x network access and device administration access.

The course lecture and extensive hands-on lab exercises include the principles of authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA); RADIUS; TACACS+; Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP); and 802.1x protocols.

Course Details: 

Describe the importance of network access security and the security needs and challenges associated with a network
Understand the features, functions, and benefits of Cisco Secure ACS v5.x
Understand the considerations when deploying Cisco Secure ACS servers (centralized or distributed environment)
Integrate Cisco Secure ACS with external user databases, such as LDAP and Windows Active Directory
Configure Cisco Secure ACS with certificate authorities
Configure Cisco Secure ACS and Cisco IOS Software for AAA services
Effectively use Cisco Secure ACS to:

       - Control access to the network and to network services

       - Restrict access to network devices to authorized network administrators or programmatic interfaces for device administration

       - Control the administrator's authority to perform specifics functions

       - Record and audit the activity of users on the network and on services
Effectively use Cisco Secure ACS's reporting, monitoring, and troubleshooting features to:

       - Collect and consolidate ACS server logs and configuration data

       - Generate access, system, and entitlement reports as well as customize favorite reports

       - Monitor ACS system health

       - Create real-time thresholds on specified conditions and monitor/forward alerts

       - Troubleshoot AAA services and protocols

Recommended For: 

This course is for network administrators, network operators, and system administrators responsible for securing their networks to assure authorized access only by authenticated users, with accounting of their activities.  The following are the primary audience for this course:
Network administrators and operators
System administrators

Prerequisites: 

Understanding of TCP/IP networking
Standard AAA security concepts and terminology
Basic understanding of security challenges facing networks
Basic Microsoft Windows system administration
Basic Cisco router and switch configuration (CCNA certification equivalent)
Internet web browser use

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