This course is designed for students with previous experience NetScaler experience, and best suited for individuals who will be deploying and/or managing Citrix NetScaler Application Firewall (AppFirewall) to secure application access in a Citrix NetScaler environment, as well as NetScaler Management and Analytics System (MAS) to administer a Citrix NetScaler environment or optimize NetScaler-managed application delivery traffic.

Students will learn 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.

Students 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. Students 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.

Associated certification:

• Citrix Certified Professional – App Delivery and Security (CCP – AppDS)

Exam/Test:

• 1Y0-341 Citrix ADC Advanced Topics: Security, Management and Optimization

Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• 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

Module 1: Citrix Web App Firewall Overview

• The Business Problem
• Industry Standards
• Protection Methodologies
• Introducing Citrix Web App Firewall

Module 2: Citrix Web App Firewall Profiles and Policies

• Citrix Web App Firewall Policies
• Citrix Web App Firewall Profiles
• Citrix Web App Firewall Learning
• Citrix Web App Firewall Engine Settings

Module 3: Implementing Citrix Web App Firewall Protections

• Security Checks and Data Flow
• Rules and Adaptive Learning
• Signatures and Comment Stripping
• Top-Level Protections

Module 4: Additional Citrix Web App Firewall Protections

• Cookie Consistency
• Advanced Form Protection Checks
• URL Protections
• Protecting Sensitive Data

Module 5: Monitoring and Troubleshooting Citrix Web App Firewall

• Web App Firewall and Web Applications
• Logging and Reporting
• Customizing Errors
• Troubleshooting

Module 6: Security and Filtering

• Application level Quality of Experience (AppQoE)
• IP Reputation
• Rate Limiting
• HTTP Callout

Module 7: Authentication with Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)

• What is SAML?
• Configuring SAML on Citrix ADC

Module 8: Authentication with OAuth, OpenID and nFactor

• OAuth and OpenID
• Configuring OAuth on Citrix ADC
• Multi-Factor Authentication with nFactor
• Configuring nFactor

Module 9: Application Delivery Management Introduction

• An introduction to Application Delivery Management
• Application Delivery Management Deployment and Configuration
• Deploying Citrix Application Delivery Management in High Availability
• Citrix Application Delivery Management
• Instance Management

Module 10: Managing and Monitoring Application Delivery Management

• Inventory Management
• User Management
• Analytics and Automation
• SSL Certificate Management

Module 11: Managing Citrix ADC Configuration

• Application Management
• StyleBooks
• Configuration Management

Module 12: Citrix ADC Web Logging

• Understanding Web Traffic
• Installing and configuring ADC 12.x Web Logging
• Troubleshooting ADC 12.x Web Logging

Module 13: Integrated Caching

• Introduction to Integrated Caching
• Static and Dynamic Content
• Request and Response Process Flow
• Understanding Cache Policies
• Identifying Content Group Settings

Module 14: Front End Optimization

• Improving Content Delivery
• Front-End Optimization Use Cases
• Understanding Minification
• CSS Optimizations

Module 15: Tuning and Optimization

• Connections on the Citrix ADC
• Connection Profiles
• Queuing on the Citrix ADC
• Connection Tuning Practices

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:

• Administrators
• Implementers /Engineers
• Architects

Citrix recommends an understanding of the following concepts and technologies:

• Functionalities and capabilities of Citrix NetScaler
• Basic NetScaler network architecture
• Obtaining, installing, and managing NetScaler licenses