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Citrix NetScaler Course

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Overview

Learn how to configure your Citrix networking environment to address application services security requirements with Citrix Web App Firewall; automate and manage network services for scale-out of application architectures with Citrix Application Delivery Management; and optimize Citrix ADC-managed application delivery traffic.

This five day course for experienced Citrix networking architects, engineers and administrators will teach you to deploy and manage Web App Firewall to protect web applications against different types of attacks. It will also give you a practical understanding of Citrix Application Delivery Management capabilities for centralised management of multiple Citrix ADC platforms, orchestration of changes, transaction reporting, infrastructure visualization and planning.

Please note :

  • Citrix now provide students with electronic courseware for all Citrix authorised training courses. Students who have a confirmed booking will be sent an email prior to the course start date, with a link to create an account via http://training.citrix.com/ before they attend their first day of class. This will ensure they have access to all Citrix authorised training content on day one of their booked Citrix course.
  • This course includes the Citrix exam which must be taken within six months of completing your course.

Skills Gained

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  • Identify common web attacks and vulnerabilities
  • Write PERL compatible regular expressions
  • Understand how to operate the adaptive learning engine
  • Configure Citrix Web App Firewall to protect web applications
  • Utilize ADC 12.x Secure Insight to monitor, manage, and report on Application Services security

Prerequisites

Citrix recommends students prepare for this course by taking the following course:

  • CNS-220 Citrix ADC 12.x Essentials and Traffic Management

or

  • CNS-222 Citrix ADC 12.x Essentials and Citrix Gateway

The supply of this course by DDLS is governed by the booking terms and conditions. Please read the terms and conditions carefully before enrolling in this course, as enrolment in the course is conditional on acceptance of these terms and conditions.

Outline

  • Citrix Web App Firewall Overview
  • Citrix Web App Firewall Policies and Profiles
  • Regular Expressions
  • Attacks and Protections
  • Web App Firewall Monitoring and Troubleshooting
  • Security and Filtering
  • Application Delivery Management Introduction
  • Managing and Monitoring Application Delivery Management
  • Managing Citrix ADC Configuration
  • Citrix ADC Web Logging
  • ADC 12.x Integrated Caching

Module 1: Citrix Web App Firewall Overview

  • Web App Firewall solution Security Model
  • Common Attacks Overview
  • PCI-DSS Compliance

Module 2: Citrix Web App Firewall Policies and Profiles

  • Profiles
  • Policies
  • Engine Settings
  • Citrix Web App Firewall Learning

Module 3: Regular Expressions

  • Forms of Regular Expressions
  • Using Regular Expressions
  • Meta/Literal Characters
  • PCRE
  • RegEx Tools
  • Regular Expression Scope

Module 4: Attacks and Protections

  • Data Flow with Citrix Web App Firewall
  • Security Checks
  • Web App Firewall Actions
  • Adaptive Learning
  • Signatures
  • Cookie Protection
  • Advanced Form Protection Checks
  • URL Protections

Module 5: Web App Firewall Monitoring and Troubleshooting

  • Citrix Web App Firewall and Web Applications
  • Logging and Reporting
  • Customizing Errors
  • Troubleshooting
  • ADC 12.x Security Insight

Module 6: Security and Filtering

  • IP Reputation
  • Rate Limiting
  • AppQoE
  • HTTP Callout

Module 7: Application Delivery Management Introduction

  • An introduction to Application Delivery Management
  • Application Delivery Management Deployment and Configuration
  • Deploying Citrix Application Delivery Management in High Availability
  • Citrix Application Delivery Management Instance Management

Module 8: Managing and Monitoring Application Delivery Management

  • Inventory Management
  • User Management
  • Analytics and Automation
  • SSL Certificate Management

Module 9: Managing Citrix ADC Configuration

  • Application Management
  • StyleBooks
  • Configuration Management

Module 10: Citrix ADC Web Logging

  • Understanding Web Traffic
  • Installing and configuring ADC 12.x Web Logging
  • Troubleshooting ADC 12.x Web Logging

Module 11: ADC 12.x Integrated Caching

  • Introduction to Integrated Caching
  • Static and Dynamic Content
  • Request and Response Process Flow
  • Understanding Cache Policies
  • Identifying Content Group Settings

Module 12: Citrix Web App Firewall Overview

  • Improving Content Delivery
  • Front-End Optimization Use Cases
  • Understanding Minification
  • CSS Optimizations

Module 13: Citrix Web App Firewall Policies and Profiles

  • Connections on the Citrix ADC
  • Connection Profiles
  • Queuing on the Citrix ADC
  • Connection Tuning Practices

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