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
Course Outline

Day-wise Course Outline