The Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional (BCCPP) course is intended for students who wish to master the advanced features of Blue Coat products. You will focus on advanced features in Blue Coat's most recent operating system. Please note, you must complete the BCCPA course before enrolling in this course.

Certification:

Blue Coat Certified Proxy Professional (BCCPP)

What You'll Learn

• The architecture of the ProxySG
• How to use Content Policy Language and trace policy execution
• Authentication realms and how to configure them on the ProxySG
• How to use the ProxySG for forwarding and failover
• Streaming media and bandwidth management
• How the ProxySG works with the ProxyAV™ to perform anti-virus scanning
• How Blue Coat Director can be used to manage multiple ProxySG appliances

Prerequisites

• BCCPA certification or completion of the BCCPA course
• Practical experience with the ProxySG in the field
• Advanced knowledge of networking, security, and authentication

• BCCPA - Blue Coat Certified Proxy Administrator

Follow-On Courses

There are no follow-ons for this course.

Course Outline

1. System Architecture

2. Caching Architecture

3. Content Policy Language (CPL)

4. Regular Expressions

5. Managing Downloads and Apparent Data Type

6. HTTP Details

7. Using Authentication in Transparent Proxy Mode

8. BCAAA

9. Understanding and Using Kerberos Authentication

10. Authentication using LDAP

11. Advanced Authentication

12. Guest Authentication

13. ProxySG Security

14. SSL Proxy

15. Policy Tracing

16. Forwarding

17. Advanced Services

18. Reverse Proxy Implementation

19. Two-Way URL Rewrite

20. Failover

21. Web Cache Communication Protocol

22. Bandwidth Management

23. Managing Streaming Media

24. Health Checks

25. Proxy Client

26. Proxy Client Filtering

27. ICAP Concepts

28. Blue Coat Director

Labs

• Advanced Services - TCP Tunnel
• Configuring the Central Policy File
• Creating Sample CPL Policy
• CPL Policy Using a Flowchart
• CPL Policy Using Regular Expressions
• Enabling SafeSearch
• Managing Downloads
• Blocking WMF File Remote Code Execution
• Policy Tracing
• VPM HTTP Redirection
• VPM - Setting Cookies
• Transparent Proxy Mode Authentication
• Authentication Configuration - Kerberos
• Authentication Configuration - Substitute
• Using CPL Substitutions
• Authentication Configuration - Local Realm
• Advanced Authentication
• Guest Authentication - Managing Authentication
• SSL Proxy - Filtering HTTPS Traffic
• Bandwidth Management
• Bandwidth Management - Priorities
• Managing Streaming Media
• Creating a Forwarding Rule
• Reverse Proxy - HTTPS to HTTP Proxy
• Two-Way URL Rewrite
• Implementing Failover
• Access Logging - Encryption and Digital Signing
• Web Cache Communication Protocol
• Health Checks