VMware NSX for Intrinsic Security (v4.x)

Course Objectives:

Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:

• Define the concepts related to information security
• 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
• Use NSX segmentation to implement Zero-Trust Security
• Configure user and role management
• Configure and troubleshoot Distributed Firewall, Identity Firewall, and time-based policies
• Configure and troubleshoot Gateway Security
• Use VMware Aria Operations™ for Logs and VMware Aria Operations™ for Networks 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 NDR

Outline

Module 1: Course Introduction

• Introduction and course logistics
• Course objectives

Module 2: Security Basics

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

Module 3: VMware Intrinsic Security

• Define the VMware intrinsic security strategy
• Describe the VMware intrinsic security portfolio
• Explain how NSX aligns with the intrinsic security strategy

Module 4: 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

Module 5: User and Role Management

• Integrate NSX and VMware Identity Manager™
• Integrate NSX and LDAP
• Describe the native users and roles in NSX
• Create and assign custom user roles
• Explain object-based RBAC in a multitenancy environment

Module 6: 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
• Configure the distributed firewall to block malicious IPs

Module 7: 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

Module 8: Operating Internal Firewalls

• Use VMware Aria Operations for Logs and VMware Aria Operations for Networks to operate NSX firewalls
• Explain security best practices related to grouping, tagging, and rule configuration

Module 9: 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

Module 10: Endpoint Protection

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

Module 11: 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 

Module 12: 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

Module 13: 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

Module 14: NSX Intelligence and NSX NDR

• Describe NSX Intelligence and its use cases
• Explain NSX Intelligence visualization, recommendation, and network traffic analysis capabilities
• Describe NSX NDR and its use cases
• Explain the architecture of NSX NDR in NSX
• Describe the visualization capabilities of NSX NDR