Advanced Techniques for Cisco Secure Firewall (SFWIPA) Training Course

Advanced Techniques for Cisco Firewall Threat Defense and Intrusion Prevention (SFWIPA) is an instructor-led training course for security engineers who want to go beyond the basics of Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD). You’ll learn how to deploy Secure Firewall as a data center firewall or at the internet edge, then configure identity-based controls, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) decryption, remote-access VPN, and site‑to‑site VPN. The course also takes you deeper into intrusion prevention with Snort 3 tuning, eventing, and integrations so you can detect, investigate, and respond with confidence in real environments. 
 
What this means in practice: you’ll design and implement advanced access control, optimize Network Address Translation (NAT) and dynamic routing, and master policy sequencing across prefilter, decryption, identity, access control, and intrusion layers. You’ll manage and troubleshoot through Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), use tools such as packet capture and Packet Tracer, and practice systematic fault isolation across policy and platform components. 
 
You’ll also look at real-world operations: integrating Secure Firewall with Cisco Secure Endpoint and Malware Defense, using Threat Intelligence Director, and automating routine tasks with APIs. If you’re migrating ASA configurations, the course covers structured approaches to bring policy into FTD while preserving intent. The emphasis is hands‑on, role‑relevant, and geared to outcomes you can apply at work immediately. A certificate of course attendance is included.