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CNS-320: Citrix (NetScaler) ADC 12.x Advanced Concepts – Security, Management, and Optimization
$5,000
- 5 Days
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
OR
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
