Course Overview
The Gigamon Certified Professional (GCP) Boot Camp is a 5 day, instructor-led course that teaches security, network, cloud and sales engineers security fundamentals for implementing Gigamon technologies to monitor data in motion as part of a comprehensive security strategy.
The course illustrates these concepts, as well as provides hands-on experience in implementing the GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform. It also provides instruction to the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for implementing GigaSECURE® into enterprise networks.
This course is also intended to help students prepare for the GCP certification exam.
Who should attend
The primary target audiences for the course are:
- All end users of Gigamon products
- Security operations professionals and architects
- Network operations professionals and architects
- Professional service and system integrations specialists
- Network and security administrators and architects
- Participants of the Gigamon Partner Program and Gigamon Support Partner Program (GSPP) or Gigamon Professional Services Program (GPSP)
Prerequisites
IMPORTANT: This course is designed to assist participants in preparing for the Gigamon Certified Professional certification test, but we recommend that you have the following pre-requisites prior to taking the GCP certification test:
- Gigamon Foundation: Learn the Essentials to Start on the Road to Success (GFND)
- Basic working knowledge of Gigamon products & flow mapping configuration
- Cisco Certified Network Associate Routing & Switching (CCNA), Interconnecting Cisco Network Devices: Accelerated (CCNAX) or equivalent working knowledge
- CompTIA Cloud+ or equivalent working knowledge
- CompTIA Security+ or Cisco Certified Network Associate Security or equivalent working knowledge
Course Objectives
- How to select a valid traffic source
- Connectivity requirements for inline and out-of-band tools
- Data requirements for inline security and network analysis tools
- Approaches and considerations for packet access for inline tools
- Traffic sizing for inline security and network analysis tools
- Approaches and considerations for out-of-band packet access
- How to implement a packet access solution in a physical network infrastructure
- How to reliably access packets for security analysis
- How to filter traffic to meet the needs of security tools
- Load sharing between inline security and network analysis tools
- How to implement packet optimization for analysis
- How to implement tool groupings for inline processing
- Traffic management for inline processing
- How to replicate traffic to out-of-band tools for augmenting inline security
- Approaches and considerations for packet access in the cloud
- How to implement a packet access solution in a cloud or hybrid network infrastructure
- How to extract virtualized traffic for use with virtualized and physical tools
Course Content
The Gigamon Certified Professional (GCP) Boot Camp is a 5 day, instructor-led course that teaches security, network, cloud and sales engineers security fundamentals for implementing Gigamon technologies to monitor data in motion as part of a comprehensive security strategy.
The course illustrates these concepts, as well as provides hands-on experience in implementing the GigaSECURE® Security Delivery Platform. It also provides instruction to the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed for implementing GigaSECURE® into enterprise networks.
This course is also intended to help students prepare for the GCP certification exam.
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