Cisco ASA Security Appliance Hands-On Training for Accidental Administrators: Student Exercise Manual

This is the Cisco ASA Security Appliance student lab manual designed for use in an instructor-led classroom setting. It is the companion to the book Cisco ASA for Accidental Administrators. Includes 72 hands-on exercises including: password recovery, building a configuration from scratch, previewing commands, using ASDM to build a configuration, analyzing the base configuration, backing up and restoring configurations and software images, remote logging options, how to configure Telnet and SSH, setting up login banners, remote authentication using RADIUS, Kerberos, and LDAP, site-to-site VPNs, remote access VPNs, configuring a DMZ, port scanning with nmap, and transparent mode. Each exercise is explained in step-by-step detail in order to create several different firewall configurations, anticipating real world scenarios.