Cisco CCNP Security Core (350-701 SCOR) v2.0

Security teams often inherit fragmented controls across firewalls, VPNs, endpoints, cloud services, and identity systems, which increases incident response time and change risk. IT Directors can assign this intermediate, 32.3-hour course to network administrators, security engineers, and IT Practitioners preparing for the Cisco CCNP Security Core (350-701 SCOR) v2.0 exam or taking on Cisco security operations responsibilities.

The course is best fit for teams that already understand networking fundamentals and need a structured path through SCOR topics: threat concepts, cryptography, IPSec and remote access VPNs, Cisco FTD, cloud shared responsibility, Splunk basics, endpoint protection, email threat defense, Cisco ISE, 802.1X, MAB, CoA, exfiltration, visibility, enforcement, and zero trust. Because many lessons include configuration and verification, Team Leads should plan lab time and staged practice before production changes. CBT Nuggets Playlists and Team Reporting help Training Managers assign the path, track progress, and support consistent team readiness.

IT teams complete this training to connect security theory with operational tasks they are likely to own in Cisco environments. The course uses scenarios such as configuring firewall content control, building FTD labs, applying endpoint policies, correlating telemetry into an attack timeline, and using ISE policy sets to move authenticated users into the right VLAN.

• Reduce exposure at the perimeter: Teams practice FTD data plane and content-control concepts, including decryption, IPS, malware protection, access control, and URL filtering.
• Improve access enforcement: IT Practitioners work through 802.1X, MAB, CoA, and policy-driven VLAN changes in Cisco ISE.
• Speed incident triage: Security staff learn why centralized endpoint and telemetry data helps correlate isolated events instead of searching across many systems.
• Strengthen endpoint response: Teams review malware delivery, privilege context, exploit prevention, file reputation, vulnerability visibility, and regular management oversight.

Knowledge

• Core security concepts including threats, the CIA triad, phishing, cryptography, and AI-related vulnerabilities.
• How IPSec, site-to-site VPNs, remote access VPNs, and related VPN technologies support secure connectivity.
• Cisco FTD concepts for data plane setup, content control, decryption, IPS, malware detection, and URL filtering.
• Cloud security models, shared responsibility, policies, frameworks, multicloud defense, and secure workload concepts.
• Endpoint, email, identity, access control, exfiltration, visibility, enforcement, and zero-trust architecture concepts.

Ability

• Configure and verify Cisco FTD policies in a lab environment before applying similar changes in production.
• Build and test site-to-site and remote access VPN configurations.
• Use Cisco ISE concepts to support 802.1X, MAB, CoA, and policy-based network access decisions.
• Interpret endpoint and malware events in the context of the compromise life cycle.
• Explain how centralized telemetry supports faster investigation and coordinated enforcement.