ISS: Network Intrusion Prevention Appliance (G Series) UK Classes & Lessons (HP)

About this class

The Network Intrusion Prevention Appliance course provides concepts, methods and practices necessary to successfully manage the Proventia G400/G2000. The course focuses on hands-on exercises supported by demonstrations, presentations and lecture.

Who will the lesson benefit?

Network and security professionals evaluating, implementing, managing, or monitoring an environment that includes Proventia intrusion prevention appliances (G400/2000).

What delegates will learn

Starting with an introduction to intrusion protection, students learn about the appliance's operational modes and how to properly deploy the appliance in a high availability environment. Students also learn how to install, manage and configure G400/G2000 appliances, and how to monitor and analyse security events using both the SiteProtector Console and Proventia Manager.

Examination details

N/A

What prerequisites are required

Working knowledge of TCP/IP and Windows platforms.

Either one of the following two situations applies:

The training is NOT attended together with the 'Introduction to SiteProtector' training: the attendees must have a valid Introduction to SiteProtector certification.
The training is attended together with the 'Introduction to SiteProtector' training

Contents of this class

Key Instructional Focus and Objectives

Introduce intrusion protection concepts and the Proventia G appliance.
Connect the Proventia G appliance to your network.
Define the operation modes available to the appliance along with the networking considerations associated with each mode.
Configure the Proventia G appliance in a high availability environment.
Restore the Proventia G appliance and configure the initial appliance settings.
Use Proventia Manager to configure the Proventia G appliance to communicate with and be managed by SiteProtector.
Manage Proventia G appliances.
Describe predefined Proventia G responses.
Configure response objects.
Configure Proventia G policies, including various types of security events.
Use Proventia Manager to manage and monitor a Proventia G appliance.

Key Hands-on Lab Focus and Objectives

Restore the Proventia G appliance.
Configure passwords and initial appliance settings.
Register Proventia G appliances in SiteProtector.
Update the Proventia G appliance.
Tune advanced parameters at the device level.
Configure response objects.
Create firewall rules, connection events, and protection domains.

Optional follow-on classes

A list of courses or topic areas that might suitably follow having successfully completed this training programme.