The Gigamon GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform is the essential element in your organization’s security strategy. The Gigamon Foundation 2-day course is the first building block in learning how to implement and configure the GigaSECURE platform in your enterprise.
Through comprehensive discussions, real-world use cases and practical hands-on labs, this course covers the foundational skills needed by security and network teams to understand how to initially configure Gigamon products and GigaSMART® features. The course will help you accelerate deployment and the expected ROI for security solutions that incorporate the GigaSECURE Security Delivery Platform.
Prerequisites:
The knowledge and skills that the learner should have before attending this course are as follows:
- Data security protection and prevention fundamentals
- Fundamentals of route switch technologies
Course Objectives:
Upon completing this course, the learner will be able to meet these overall objectives:
- The different Gigamon product layers and how they function as part of a security solution.
- How to plan for, and ultimately deploy, Gigamon products into your data center.
- Different sources of traffic and how they impact your overall security solution.
- How to install a new Gigamon GigaVUE® HC Series appliance into your network for the purpose of security monitoring.
- How to create flow maps to help ensure that the right traffic gets to the right tool at the right time.
- How to use GigaSMART features to improve your organization’s security posture.
Module 1: Gigamon Solution Overview
- Gigamon Platform
- GigaVUE FM, HC3, HC2, TA
- Network TAPs
Module 2: Deployment, Planning and Installation of Gigamon Solution Components
- Visibility challenges
- Aggregate packets
- Tunneling traffic
- Share packets
- Optimize traffic
- De-duplication
- Performance Metrics
- Filtering
- Flow mapping
Module 3: Understanding Traffic Sources
- Traffic source
- SPAN / Mirror
- TAPs
Module 4: Preparing for a Gigamon Solution Deployment
- Port count
- GigaSMART
- GigaVUE H Series
- GigaVUE TA Series
- SSL decryption
- Module requirements
Module 5: Gigamon Solution Installation and Initial Configuration
- Installation and configuration
- Cable management
- CLI commands
- Port setup
Module 6: Configuring Clustering
- Clustering
- Checklist
- Plan the cluster
- Port considerations
- Diagram the cluster
Module 7: The Principles of Flow Mapping
- Network packet broker basics
- Filtering
- Flow mapping
Module 8: GigaSMART Overview
- GigaSMART traffic intelligence
- GigaSMART flow and session level intelligence
- SSL Decryption
- SSL functionality
The primary audience for this course is as follows:
- Security, networking and cloud architects, administrators and operations staff who are Gigamon customers, but new to Gigamon products.
- Gigamon partners who focus on security and networking and who are using Gigamon products for the first time.