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 for administrators, implementers, engineers, and architects.
Module 1: AppFirewall Overview ; ; ;
- AppFirewall solution Security Model ;
- Common Attacks Overview ;
- PCI-DSS Compliance
Module 2: AppFirewall Policies and Profiles ; ; ;
- Profiles
- Policies
- Engine Settings ;
- AppFirewall Learning ;
Module 3: Regular Expressions
- Forms of Regular Expressions ;
- Using Regular Expressions
- Meta/Literal Characters ; ;
- PCRE
- RegEx Tools
- Regular Expression Scope
Module 4: Attacks and Protections
- Data Flow with AppFirewall
- Security Checks
- AppFirewall Actions
- Adaptive Learning
- Signatures
- Cookie Protection ;
- Advanced Form Protection Checks
- URL Protections
Module 5: AppFirewall Monitoring and Troubleshooting
- AppFirewall and Web Applications ;
- Logging and Reporting ;
- Customizing Errors ;
- Troubleshooting ;
- NetScaler Security Insight
Module 6: Security and Filtering
- IP Reputation ;
- Rate Limiting ;
- AppQoE
- HTTP Callout
Module 7: NetScaler MAS Introduction
- Can introduction to MAS
- MAS Deployment and Configuration ;
- Deploying MAS in High Availability ;
- MAS Instance Management
Module 8: Managing and Monitoring MAS ;
- Inventory Management ;
- User Management ;
- Analytics and Automation ;
- SSL Certificate Management
Module 9: Managing NetScaler Configuration ;
- Application Management ;
- StyleBooks
- Configuration Management
Module 10: NetScaler Web Logging ;
- Understanding Web Traffic ;
- Installing and configuring NetScaler Web Logging ;
- Troubleshooting NetScaler Web Logging
Module 11: NetScaler Integrated Caching
- Introduction to Integrated Caching ;
- Static and Dynamic Content ;
- Request and Response Process Flow ;
- Understanding Cache Policies ;
- Identifying Content Group Settings
Module 12: Front-End Optimization
- Improving Content Delivery ;
- Front-End Optimization Use Cases ;
- Understanding Minification ;
- CSS Optimizations
Module 13: Tuning and Optimizations ;
- Connections on the NetScaler ;
- Connection Profiles ;
- Queuing on the NetScaler ;
- Connection Tuning Practices
Citrix recommends students prepare for this course by taking the following course/courses: CNS-102 NetScaler Overview, CNS-220 Citrix NetScaler Essentials and Traffic
Management, or CNS-222 Citrix NetScaler Essentials and Unified Gateway.
- Identify common web attacks and vulnerabilities ;
- Write PERL compatible regular expressions ;
- Understand how to operate 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
