The Symantec Data Loss Prevention 16.x Administration course is designed to provide you with the fundamental knowledge to configure and administer the Symantec Data Loss Prevention Enforce platform. The hands-on labs include exercises for configuring the Enforce server, detection servers, and DLP agents; creating policies; detecting and responding to incidents; performing incident reporting; and administering users and roles. You are introduced to the following Symantec Data Loss Prevention components: Network Monitor, Network Prevent, Network Discover, Network Protect, Endpoint Prevent, and Endpoint Discover. In addition, the course includes some introductory discussion of the integration with Symantec CloudSOC CASB.

NOTE: This course is delivered on a Microsoft Windows platform.

Hands-On
This course includes practical hands-on exercises that enable you to test your new skills and begin to use those skills in a working environment.

By the end of this course, you will be able to configure and use Symantec Data Loss Prevention 16.x.

Module 1: Data Loss Prevention Landscape

• Data loss risk management
• Data Loss Prevention landscape
• Data Loss Prevention use cases

Module 2: Overview of Symantec Data Loss Prevention

• Symantec Data Loss Prevention Suite
• Symantec Data Loss Prevention architecture

Module 3: Identifying and Describing Confidential Data

• Identifying confidential data
• Configuring Symantec Data Loss Prevention to recognize confidential data
• Described Content Matching (DCM)
• User Risk-Based Detection
• Exact matching (EDM and EMDI)
• Indexed Document Matching (IDM)
• Vector Machine Learning (VML)
• Sensitive Image Recognition
• Custom file type detection
• Using policy templates
• Hands-On Labs: Tour the Enforce console, create policy groups, configure policies for Personally Identifiable Information (PII) detection, configure a policy for PCI compliance, configure a policy to protect confidential documents, configure a policy to protect source code, configure a policy for Form Recognition, use a template to add a DLP policy, export policies for use at a Disaster Recovery (DR) site, configure Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

Module 4: Locating Confidential Data Stored on Premises and in the Cloud

• Determining where to search for confidential data
• Locating confidential data on corporate repositories
• Locating confidential data in the Cloud
• Locating confidential data on endpoint computers
• Hands-On Labs: Run a Content Enumeration Scan, run a high-speed Discover scan, scan a Windows target, scan endpoint computers for confidential data

Module 5: Understanding How Confidential Data is Being Used

• Monitoring confidential data moving across the network
• Monitoring confidential data being used in the Cloud
• Monitoring confidential data being used on endpoint computers
• Hands-On Labs: Update the DLP Agent using
• LiveUpdate, Configure Network Prevent for Email to monitor SMTP messages, use Network Prevent for Email to monitor SMTP messages, monitor Endpoint activity

Module 6: Educating Users to Adopt Data Protection Practices

• Implementing corporate training on data protection policies
• Providing notifications of user policy violations
• Hands-On Labs: Configure the Active Directory lookup plugin, create custom attributes, configure email notifications, configure onscreen notifications

Module 7: Preventing Unauthorized Exposure of Confidential Data

• Using response rules to prevent the exposure of confidential data
• Protecting confidential data in motion
• Protecting confidential data in use
• Protecting confidential data at rest
• Hands-On Labs: Configure SMTP blocking, test Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and the “HIPAA and HITECH (including PHI)” policy, configure endpoint blocking, configure endpoint User Cancel, scan and quarantine files on a server file share target, scan and quarantine files on an endpoint target

Module 8: Remediating Data Loss Incidents and Tracking Risk Reduction

• Reviewing risk management frameworks
• Using incident reporting options to identify and assess risk
• Creating tools that support the organization’s risk reduction process
• Communicating risk to stakeholders
• Understanding advanced reporting options and analytics
• Hands-On Labs: Define incident statuses and status groups, configure Smart Responses, configure roles and users, reassign users’ default roles, create work queues, test workflow, use reports to track risk exposure and reduction

Module 9: Enhancing Data Loss Prevention with Integrations

• Symantec DLP integration mechanisms
• Symantec DLP integrations with other Symantec products
• Symantec DLP + Microsoft Purview Information Protection (MPIP)
• Hands-On Labs: Use the incident “flag for deletion” function, create a Web report, schedule and send reports

Module 10: Course Review

• Review of Symantec Data Loss products and architecture
• Review of the stages in a Data Loss Prevention implementation

• Working knowledge of Windows server-class operating systems and commands
• Networking and Network Security concepts
• Technical users responsible for creating and maintaining policies and incident responses