Deja Ranee Smith

Top 5 Ways to Deploy Web Content Security

1. Name of sponsoring organization
   1. NetCom Learning
2. Details of the activity (e.g., where, when)
   1. Online, March 16th
3. What you learned
   1. During this webinar, I learned about the Cisco Web Security Appliance and how to deploy web content security. The presenter discussed the network environment in detail, covering ICMP, firewalls, unicast reverse path forwarding, and IP spoofing with WCCP. They also highlighted the WSA network, including interfaces, management network routing, TALOS telemetry, DNS, load balancing, and active and passive authentication. Lastly, the webinar covered logging, and the presenter discussed where latency could be introduced, such as client-side, external and internal services, and server-side.
4. How the activity relates to coursework or your career goals
   1. This webinar is highly relevant to my coursework because it provided me with an in-depth understanding of network infrastructure, policy configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting related to web content security which are some topics that were covered in my current and past courses. In regard to my career, having knowledge of general web content security is important for navigating a career such as cybersecurity, which is a field that I am very interested in.