Course Description

This is a three-day Instructor-led course for advanced ProxySG users. The course provides networking professionals with knowledge of how to configure Blue Coat Proxy appliances for high availability and multi-site deployments, advanced policy features, web content control, P2P control, IM control, streaming media control, application acceleration and reverse proxy deployments, and effective user monitoring using splash pages, coaching pages and compliance pages.

Who Should Attend

This course is intended for Networking Professionals administering Blue Coat appliances, Security Auditors and Architects, System Engineers and Post Sale Support Technicians.

Pre-requisites

Before attending this class, students must have attended a Proxy Fundamentals course or passed an on-line entrance examination.

Objectives

Delegates attending this course will be able to:

• Configure Blue Coat Proxy appliance for high availability and multi-site deployments, advance policy features
• Configure Blue Coat proxy for advanced authentication using NTLM and LDAP
• Configure Transparent Proxy authentication
• Setup Splash pages, coaching pages and compliance pages

Topics Covered

• Identifying requirements for advance proxy configurations
• Advance Network Deployments
• Using ProxySG to identify and create policy
  • Authentication
  • Policy base logging
  • Reporter
  • Packet Capturing
• Advance Policy Best Practices
• ProxySG CPL Primer
• ProxySG Advanced Policy Deployment
  • File type blocking
  • File transfer blocking
  • Protocol method control
  • URL re-writing
  • Splash pages
  • Coaching
  • Exception pages
  • Custom combined objects
  • Policy tracing
• Securing Web Servers with Blue Coat ProxySG (Reverse Proxy)
  • Authentication
  • SSL
  • URL rewrite
  • Two way URL rewrite
  • Forwarding
• Edge ProxySG Deployments using Director
• ProxySG Optimisation

Certification

Upon completion of this course and passing the on-line certification exam, delegates will become Blue Coat Certified System Administrators.

Course Code	Course Title	Location	Duration	Event List Price	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr
BLUE-PF	Certified Proxy Administrator	Theale	2 days	£1,495		13-14	13-14	3-4
BLUE-PF	Certified Proxy Administrator	London	2 days	£1,495	16-17
BLUE-APS	Certified Proxy Professional	Theale	3 days	£2,250		15-17	15-17	5-7
BLUE-APS	Certified Proxy Professional	London	3 days	£2,250	18-20

Course Bundle Code	Course Bundle Title	Duration	Event List Price	Bundle Saving
BLUE-PFAPS	Certified Proxy Administrator and Certified Proxy Professional	5 days	£3,295.00	£450