The Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies (SCOR) Learning Path helps you gain the skills and technologies needed to implement core Cisco security solutions. This Learning Path will ready you to provide advanced threat protection against cybersecurity attacks and prepare you for senior-level security roles. 

This Learning Path prepares you for the 350-701 SCOR v2.0 exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core certification and satisfy the core exam requirement for the Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Security and Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Security certifications.

Skills You'll Learn:

• Secure networks, cloud infrastructure, and content
• Provide endpoint protection and secure network access
• Enable visibility and enforcement
• Deploy powerful security tools, such as Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense and Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Firewall

 Learning Path Objectives:

1. Security Fundamentals and Threat Landscape: Analyze the modern cyber security threats, learn cryptographic principles to guarantee integrity, confidentiality, and authentication (CIA), and implement layer 2 security controls.
2. Infrastructure Security and Hardening: Learn Zero Trust security principles, Cisco SAFE architecture, techniques for hardening infrastructure network devices such as IOS routers, and the implementation and troubleshooting of TACACS+ network device administrative access.
3. Perimeter Security with Cisco Secure Firewall: Discover how to implement Cisco Secure Firewall to deliver advanced threat defense and enable site-to-site and remote access VPN connectivity, and describe post-quantum cryptography (PQC) algorithms.
4. Cloud Security and DevSecOps: Evaluate cloud security strategies, explain micro-segmentation principles, protect cloud workloads using Cisco Secure Workload, Cisco MultiCloud Defense, and eBPF, and gain knowledge of DevSecOps and Security Automation concepts.
5. Secure Service Edge (SSE): Describe how Cisco Duo supports zero-trust identity security through multifactor authentication (MFA), phishing-resistant authentication, SSO, and policy-based access control, learn how SASE converges network security and wide-area networking into a unified, cloud-based service, examine the Cisco Secure Access architecture, and implement Secure Private Access and Secure Internet Access.
6. Identity and Network Access Control: Gain an understanding of Identity and Access Management (IAM) principles and implement Network Access Control (NAC) using MAC Authentication Bypass (MAB) and 802.1X with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE).
7. Email and Endpoint Security: Learn how to protect Microsoft 365 emails using Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense (ETD), understand the importance of establishing and maintaining endpoint trust and compliance, and implement advanced malware protection with Cisco Secure Endpoint.
8. Unified SOC Operations (Cisco + Splunk): Understand the role of Splunk, Splunk SOAR, and Cisco XDR within the Security Operations Center (SOC), and integrate Cisco Secure Firewall with Splunk using the Cisco Security Cloud App.

Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies E-Learning