VMware NSX-T Data Center for Intrinsic Security [V3.2]

5 Days

30 CPD hours

Experienced security administrators

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
Define information-security-related concepts
Explain the different types of firewalls and their use cases
Describe the operation of intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems
Differentiate between Malware Prevention approaches
Describe the VMware intrinsic security portfolio
Implement Zero-Trust Security using VMware NSX segmentation
Configure user and role management
Configure and troubleshoot Distributed Firewall, Identity Firewall, and time-based policies
Configure and troubleshoot Gateway Security
Use VMware vRealize Log Insight™ for NSX™ and VMware vRealize Network Insight™ to operate NSX firewalls
Explain the security best practices related to grouping, tagging, and rule configuration
Describe north-south and east-west service insertion
Describe endpoint protection
Configure and troubleshoot IDS/IPS
Deploy NSX Application Platform
Configure and troubleshoot NSX Malware Prevention
Describe the capabilities of NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response

This five-day, hands-on training course provides you with the knowledge, skills, and tools to achieve competency in configuring, operating, and troubleshooting VMware NSX-T? Data Center for intrinsic security. In this course, you are introduced to all the security features in NSX-T Data Center, including Distributed Firewall and Gateway Firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS), NSX Application Platform, NSX Malware Prevention, VMware NSX© Intelligence?, and VMware NSX© Network Detection and Response?.In addition, you are presented with common configuration issues and given a methodology to resolve them.

Course Introduction

• Introductions and course logistics
• Course objectives

Security Basics

• Define information-security-related concepts
• Explain the different types of firewalls and their use cases
• Describe the operation of IDS/IPS
• Differentiate between Malware Prevention approaches

VMware Intrinsic Security

• Define the VMware intrinsic security strategy
• Describe the VMware intrinsic security portfolio
• Explain how NSX-T Data Center aligns with the intrinsic security strategy

Implementing Zero-Trust Security

• Define Zero-Trust Security
• Describe the five pillars of a Zero-Trust Architecture
• Define NSX segmentation and its use cases
• Describe the steps needed to enforce Zero-Trust with NSX segmentation

User and Role Management

• Integrate NSX-T Data Center and VMware Identity Manager?
• Integrate NSX-T Data Center and LDAP
• Describe the native users and roles in NSX-T Data Center
• Create and assign custom user roles

Distributed Firewall

• Configure Distributed Firewall rules and policies
• Describe the NSX Distributed Firewall architecture
• Troubleshoot common problems related to NSX Distributed Firewall
• Configure time-based policies
• Configure Identity Firewall rules

Gateway Security

• Configure Gateway Firewall rules and policies
• Describe the architecture of the Gateway Firewall
• Identify and troubleshoot common Gateway Firewall issues
• Configure TLS Inspection to decrypt traffic for both internal and external services
• Configure URL filtering and identify common configuration issues

Operating Internal Firewalls

• Use vRealize Log Insight for NSX and vRealize Network Insight to operate NSX firewalls
• Explain security best practices related to grouping, tagging, and rule configuration

Network Introspection

• Explain network introspection
• Describe the architecture and workflows of north-south and east-west service insertion
• Troubleshoot north-south and east-west service insertion

Endpoint Protection

• Explain endpoint protection
• Describe the architecture and workflows of endpoint protection
• Troubleshoot endpoint protection

Intrusion Detection and Prevention

• Describe the MITRE ATT&CK framework
• Explain the different phases of a cyber attack
• Describe how NSX security solutions can be used to protect against cyber attacks
• Configure and troubleshoot Distributed IDS/IPS
• Configure and troubleshoot North-South IDS/IPS

NSX Application Platform

• Describe NSX Application Platform and its use cases
• Identify the topologies supported for the deployment of NSX Application Platform
• Deploy NSX Application Platform
• Explain the NSX Application Platform architecture and services
• Validate the NSX Application Platform deployment and troubleshoot common issues

NSX Malware Prevention

• Identify use cases for NSX Malware Prevention
• Identify the components in the NSX Malware Prevention architecture
• Describe the NSX Malware Prevention packet flows for known and unknown files
• Configure NSX Malware Prevention for east-west and north-south traffic

NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response

• Describe NSX Intelligence and its use cases
• Explain NSX Intelligence visualization, recommendation, and network traffic analysis capabilities
• Describe NSX Network Detection and Response and its use cases
• Explain the architecture of NSX Network Detection and Response in NSX-T Data Center
• Describe the visualization capabilities of NSX Network Detection and Response