RSA Security Analytics Administration

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  • Onsite
Duration: 3 Days

In this course that focuses on administration of the RSA Security Analytics product, you will get an overview of RSA Security Analytics and hands-on configuration of components, including a Log Decoder, managing users, and creating filters and rules. Additionally, you will cover integration with enVision and monitoring capabilities.

What You Will Learn

  • Security Analytics architecture
  • Security Analytics data sources, including the Warehouse
  • Licensing process
  • Security Analytics User Interface
  • Customize the interface
  • Configure and license devices
  • Create device groups
  • Add users and groups
  • Set roles and permissions for users and groups
  • Configure external authentication
  • Configure data capture including log collection
  • Configure Live Manager
  • Deploy feeds to the Decoder
  • Configure the Reporting Engine
  • Create filters and rules on the Decoder
  • Configure Spectrum
  • Use the REST API for basic tasks
  • Monitor the environment
  • Identify and resolve issues
  • Migrating from enVision to Security Analytics

Audience

RSA Security Analytics administrators

Prerequistes

  • Familiarity with networking fundamentals and general information security concepts
  • Familiarity with Linux

Course Outline

1. RSA Security Analytics Overview

  • RSA Security Analytics architecture
  • RSA Security Analytics components
  • Licensing
  • Packets, sessions, logs, and content
  • Data flow
  • Data sources
  • Deployment scenarios
  • Deployment considerations
  • The Virtual Environment
  • Security Analytics interface
  • Customizing the interface

2. Configuring RSA Security Analytics

  • Adding devices
  • Device groups
  • Concentrator settings
  • Decoder settings
  • Configure Live Manager
  • Custom feeds
  • Configuration files
  • Configure the Reporting Engine
  • Configure Context Sensitive Menus
  • Configure the Warehouse
  • Configure Spectrum

3. Setting Up Data Collection

  • Setting up capture for packets and log data
  • Configuring log collection
  • Setting up collection for File Reader
  • Setting up collection for Windows
  • Setting up collection for ODBC
  • Setting up collection for Check Point
  • Testing data capture

4. Managing Users

  • User administration overview
  • Users, groups, roles, and permissions
  • Managing Security Analytics users
  • Configuring external authentication
  • Managing Spectrum users

5. Creating Rules, Reports, and Alerts

  • Rules overview
  • Rules data flow
  • Navigating data
  • Reports
  • Alerting

6. Monitoring the environment

  • Viewing statistics
  • Monitoring devices
  • Monitoring query performance
  • Monitoring Concentrator aggregations
  • Tuning the index
  • Resetting the databases
  • Viewing logs
  • REST API
  • Crash Reporter

7. Migrating from enVision to Security Analytics

  • Migration overview
  • The Z-Connector
  • Configuring the IPDB Extractor Service
  • Migrating enVision data

Course Labs

In addition to lecture and demonstrations, this course includes hands-on labs designed to give you practical experience.