Sophos XG Administration. This course is designed for technical professionals who will be administering Sophos XG Firewall and provides the skills necessary to manage common day-to- day tasks.

Objectives

On completion of this course, trainees will be able to:

• Recognize the main technical capabilities and how they protect against threats
• Complete common configuration tasks
• Configure the most commonly used features
• View and manage logs and reports
• Identify and use troubleshooting tools

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for this course; however, it is recommended you should:

• Be knowledge of networking to a CompTIA N+ level
• Be familiar with security best practices
• Experience configuring network security devices

Certification

To become a Sophos Certified Administrator, trainees must take and pass an online assessment. The assessment tests their knowledge of both the presented and practical content and contains 40 questions. The pass mark for the assessment is 80%, and is limited to 4 attempts.

Schedule

Training is expected to take three (3) days (24 hours ) to complete, of which approximately half will be spent on the practical exercises.

Content

The training contains 10 modules:

• Module 1 : XG Firewall Overview
• Module 2 : Getting Started with XG Firewall
• Module 3 : Network Protection
• Module 4 : Web Server Protection
• Module 5 : Site-to-Site Connections
• Module 6 : Authentication
• Module 7 : Web Protection and Application Control
• Module 8 : Email Protection
• Module 9 : Wireless Protection
• Module 10 : remote Access
• Module 11: Logging, Reporting and Troubleshooting