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CNS-320: Citrix (NetScaler) ADC 12.x Advanced Concepts – Security, Management, and Optimization

$5,000

5 Days

Course:

Course Description

This course is designed for students with previous experience NetScaler experience, and best suited for individuals who will be deploying and/or managing Citrix NetScaler Application Firewall (AppFirewall) to secure application access in a Citrix NetScaler environment, as well as NetScaler Management and Analytics System (MAS) to administer a Citrix NetScaler environment or optimize NetScaler-managed application delivery traffic.

Students will learn the skills required for deploying and utilizing the NetScaler Management and Analytics System including the ability to manage multiple NetScaler platforms centrally, orchestrate configuration changes, report on transactions passing through the NetScaler environment, visualize infrastructure, and plan expansions. Students will also learn how to implement features including Caching, Frontend Optimization, NetScaler Web logging, and TCP/HTTP optimization to optimize traffic managed by a NetScaler environment.

At the end of the course, students will be able to configure NetScaler environments to address application services security requirements with AppFirewall, as well as automate and manage network services for scale-out application architectures with Citrix NetScaler Management and Analytics System and optimize NetScaler managed application delivery traffic.

Outline

Days 1-3

Application Firewall Overview

AppFirewall solution Security Model (include signature)
Overview of types of attacks
PCIDSS
Adaptive Learning Engine
Packet Processing and Inspection
Log Files - view violations
Advanced Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Resources

Profiles and Policies

Profiles
Policies
Engine Settings

Regular Expressions

Forms of Regular Expressions
Using Regular Expressions
Metacharacters and Literal Characters
Escapes
Quantifiers
Back Referencing
Lookaheads
Regular Expression Scope

Attacks and Protections

Data Flow with AppFirewall
Security Checks
AppFirewall Actions
Adaptive Learning
Signatures
Code Quality (HTML Comment Striping)
Buffer Overflow
SQL injection
Cross-Site Scripting
Cookie Tampering
Cookie Protection
Parameter Tampering
Server Misconfiguration
Form Protections
Identity Theft - CC - Safe Object
URL Protections - Start URL and Deny URL
CSRF

Application Firewall Troubleshooting

Security Insight
HTTP Callout
Rate-Limit
AppQOE
IP Reputation

Days 4-5

Introduction

NetScaler MAS Introduction and Configuration

Using NetScaler MAS to Manage and Monitor NetScalers
Using NetScaler MAS to Manage NetScaler configurations

MAS analytics

Optimization

Caching
Frontend Optimization
TCP/HTTP optimization

NetScaler Web Logging

Audience

Students interested in learning the skills required to deploy and manage AppFirewall to secure application access in their Citrix NetScaler environment, as well as NetScaler MAS to administer a Citrix NetScaler environment, or optimize NetScaler-managed application delivery traffic. Specifically:

Administrators
Implementers / Engineers
Architects

Prerequisites

Recommended pre-requisite courses:

CNS-102 NetScaler Overview

AND

CNS-220 Citrix NetScaler Essentials and Traffic Management

CNS-222 Citrix NetScaler Essentials and Unified Gateway

What You Will Learn

Upon successful completion of this course, learners are able to:

Identify common web attacks and vulnerabilities
Write PERL compatible regular expressions
Understand how to utilize the adaptive learning engine
Configure AppFirewall to protect web applications
Utilize NetScaler Secure Insight to Monitor, Manage and report on Application Services security
Troubleshoot AppFirewall
Manage multiple NetScaler platforms centrally
Orchestrate configuration changes
Report on transactions passing through the NetScaler environment
Visualize infrastructure and plan expansion