Overview
The NS-301 course equips experienced IT professionals with advanced skills to secure, optimize, and manage NetScaler environments. Participants learn to deploy and manage NetScaler Web App Firewall, implement AAA with nFactor, and leverage NetScaler Console for centralized management and monitoring.
Objectives
By the end of this course, leaner will be able to:
- Deploy and configure NetScaler Web Application Firewall with advanced protections.
- Create and manage WAF profiles, policies, and monitoring tools.
- Implement AAA for application traffic, including nFactor authentication.
- Customize login schemas, policy labels, and user experience elements.
- Use NetScaler Console for centralized app and instance management.
- Apply advanced security features like bot protection, API protection, and IP reputation.
- Monitor performance and optimize NetScaler appliances.
Prerequisites
- Strong foundational knowledge of NetScaler ADC administration and traffic management.
- Completion of NS-201 or NSGW-203 is highly recommended.
Course Outline
- Business problem, industry standards, protection methodologies
- Overview of WAF features
- Policies, profiles, learning, logging, signatures
- Implementing URL, form, and advanced security checks
- Bot & API protection
- IP reputation, rate limiting, HTTP callouts
- Application QoE
- Authentication, authorization, auditing
- nFactor concepts, policy labels, login schemas
- SSO, SAML, certificate authentication, OAuth
- Portal themes, EULA, error messages
- Service overview, initial setup, instance management
- User & event management, SSL certificates
- Unified security dashboard, insights
- Connection, SSL, and Net profiles
- Configuration audit, actionable recommendations