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 and gateway firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS), VMware NSX® Intelligence, and Network Detection and Response (NDR).

In addition, you are presented with common configuration issues and given a methodology to resolve them.

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
•Define information security related concepts
•Explain different types of firewalls and their use cases
•Describe the operation of Intrusion Detection and Intrusion Prevention Systems
•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, VMware vRealizeNetwork Insight,and NSX Intelligence to operate NSX firewalls and generate security recommendations
•Explain security best practices related to grouping, tagging, and rule configuration
•Describe North-South and East-West service insertion
•Describe Endpoint Protection
•Configure and troubleshoot Distributed IDS/IPS
•Describe the capabilities of Network Detection and Response

Experienced security administrators.

You should also have the following understanding or knowledge:
•Good understanding of TCP/IP services and protocols
•Knowledge and working experience of network security, including:
• L2-L7 Firewalling
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
•Knowledge and working experience of VMware vSphere environments and KVM-based environments

The VMware Certified Technical Associate - Network Virtualization is recommended.