Citrix ADC 12.x Advanced Concepts - Security, Management & Optimization

 

Who should attend

  • Administrators
  • Implementers
  • Engineers
  • System Architects

Prerequisites

Should have previous experience with NetScaler.

Course Objectives

  • 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

Product Description

This courses teaches you the skills required to deploy and manage AppFirewall including types of web attacks, protections and signatures, the adaptive learning engine, AppFirewall policies and profiles, troubleshooting and additional pertinent NetScaler security features.

You 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. You 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, you 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

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

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

E-Learning

Price on request