VMware NSX-T Data Center for Intrinsic Security

Course Overview

This five-day, hands-on training VMware NSX-T 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 Firewall and Gateway Firewall, Intrusion Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS), NSX Application Platform, NSX Malware Prevention, VMware NSX® Intelligence™, and VMware NSX® Network Detection and Response™.

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

Product Alignment:

• VMware NSX-T Data Center 3.2.x

Target Audience

• Experienced security administrators

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:

• Define information-security-related concepts
• 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
• 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™ for NSX™ and VMware vRealize® Network Insight™ 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 Network Detection and Response

Course Content

1  Course Introduction

•  Introductions and course logistics
•  Course objectives

2  Security Basics

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

3  VMware Intrinsic Security

•  Define the VMware intrinsic security strategy
•  Describe the VMware intrinsic security portfolio
•  Explain how NSX-T Data Center aligns with the intrinsic security strategy

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

5  User and Role Management

•  Integrate NSX-T Data Center and VMware Identity Manager™
•  Integrate NSX-T Data Center and LDAP
•  Describe the native users and roles in NSX-T Data Center
•  Create and assign custom user roles

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

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

8  Operating Internal Firewalls

•  Use vRealize Log Insight for NSX and vRealize Network Insight to operate NSX firewalls
•  Explain security best practices related to grouping, tagging, and rule configuration

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

10  Endpoint Protection

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

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

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

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

14  NSX Intelligence and NSX Network Detection and Response

•  Describe NSX Intelligence and its use cases
•  Explain NSX Intelligence visualization, recommendation, and network traffic analysis capabilities
•  Describe NSX Network Detection and Response and its use cases
•  Explain the architecture of NSX Network Detection and Response in NSX-T Data Center
•  Describe the visualization capabilities of NSX Network Detection and Response

Course Prerequisites

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 through L7 firewalling
• Intrusion detection and prevention systems
• Malware prevention systems
• Knowledge of and working experience with VMware vSphere® environments and KVM-based environments

The VMware Certified Technical Associate - Network Virtualization is recommended.