Threat Protection System 3

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Course Description

This course provides users with the necessary skills to implement an effective threat protection system against DDoS attacks in an A10 ACOS data center environment.

Objectives

Students learn to:

Use aGalaxy to orchestrate TPS devices
Monitor traffic and detect attacks
Configure and apply mitigation strategies against the following DDoS attacks
- volumetric
- protocol
- reflection
- resource
Generate reports
Examine network traffic at the packet level

Class Structure

Classroom Discussion 50%
Lab Exercises 50%

Prerequisites

OSI reference model
Network topology and administration

Audience

Network Operations (NetOps)
Development Operations (DevOps)
Network Security (NetSec)
Architects (Arch)

Outline

TOPIC	LAB	TIME (Hours)
Overview Types of DDoS Attacks Mitigation Strategies	X	1
Configuration Components of A10 Threat Protection System Deployment Topologies	X	1
Attack Detection Zones Monitoring Traffic Zone Escalation Process Zone Operational Modes Traffic Baseline	X	1.5
Attack Mitigation Incident Creation Incident Mitigation		0.5
Traffic Rate Limiting GLIDs Zone-Templates Zone Level Based Mitigation	X	1
Layer 3/4 Security TCP Security Measures UDP Security Measures ICMP Security Measures	X	1
Layer 7 Security DNS Security Measures HTTP Security Measures SSL Security Measures	X	1.0
Reporting and Troubleshooting Reports Packet Capture Packet Debugger	X	1.0