Course Details
Cisco Firewall High Availability, Clustering & Performance Tuning- Advanced Level
3 Days
Course Overview
This 3-day advanced instructor-led technical training program delivers deep architectural, design, and optimization expertise for Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) deployments in complex enterprise and service provider environments. The course focuses on scalable architecture design, performance tuning, advanced security policy engineering, threat detection optimization, high availability, multi-domain deployments, and operational excellence using Cisco Firepower Management Center (FMC). Participants will gain the ability to design, optimize, and troubleshoot high-performance, resilient, and secure FTD environments aligned with Cisco best practices.
Course Outcomes
- By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- • Architect scalable and resilient FTD deployments
- • Optimize security policies for performance and threat coverage
- • Troubleshoot complex FTD issues effectively
- • Design HA, multi-domain, and hybrid security architectures
- • Implement operational best practices and governance
Upcoming Trainings
Mar 16, 2026
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Mar 30, 2026
Istanbul, Turkey
Apr 13, 2026
Abuja, Nigeria
Apr 27, 2026
Lagos, Nigeria
Target Audience
- • Senior network security engineers
- • Security architects and technical leads
- • Firewall and SOC specialists
- • Security consultants and system integrators
- • MSSP senior operations teams
Prerequisites
- • Strong hands-on experience with Cisco Firepower FTD and FMC
- • In-depth knowledge of firewall, IPS, and networking fundamentals
- • Prior experience with ASA and NGFW deployments
- • Understanding of routing, NAT, VPN, and security operations
- • Recommended completion of intermediate Firepower courses
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