Domain 1 · 15%
SESA-300-720 · legacy track · blueprint v1.1
Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance
Cisco retired the exam; production networks did not retire the skills. This track stays in the library — every objective mapped — included with All-Access.
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SESA-300-720 · Securing Email with Cisco Email Security Appliance
Lesson slugs never change and lessons are never renumbered — a link you save today still resolves after a blueprint revision.
Retired exam, not retired skills — content and message filters, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, LDAP, quarantines. One master lab topology, built once and added to module by module — every lesson written for this exam, not stitched from a video library.
01 M1 · Lab 1: Power On the ESA & Mail Server In Production 02 Email Security Landscape: ESA, CES & Cloud vs On-Prem Live 03 SMTP & the ESA Email Pipeline: Packet Walk In Production L2 M1 · Lab 2: SMTP & the ESA Email Pipeline: Packet Walk Lab 04 Configure Listeners, HAT/RAT & Inbound/Outbound Mail Policies In Production L3 M1 · Lab 3: Configure Listeners, HAT/RAT & Inbound/Outbound Mail Policies Lab 05 Centralized Management with Cisco Secure Email and Web Manager (SMA) In Production 06 From SecureX to Cisco XDR: What Changes for Email Integration In Production 07 Configure Email Security with Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense In Production L4 M1 · Lab 4: Configure Email Security with Cisco Secure Email Threat Defense Lab
MODULE 2 Spam, Malware & URL Defense
01 Configure Email Protection: Spam, Antimalware, DLP, Block Lists & Encryption In Production L1 M2 · Lab 1: Configure Email Protection: Spam, Antimalware, DLP, Block Lists & Encryption Lab 02 Graymail Management & Bounce Verification In Production L2 M2 · Lab 2: Graymail Management & Bounce Verification Lab 03 Malicious URL Protection: Web Reputation & Outbreak URL Rewriting In Production L3 M2 · Lab 3: Malicious URL Protection: Web Reputation & Outbreak URL Rewriting Lab 04 Configure Antivirus Scanning with the Sophos and McAfee Engines In Production L4 M2 · Lab 4: Configure Antivirus Scanning with the Sophos and McAfee Engines Lab 05 Outbreak Filters: Adaptive Scanning, Scoring & Dynamic Quarantine In Production L5 M2 · Lab 5: Outbreak Filters: Adaptive Scanning, Scoring & Dynamic Quarantine Lab MODULE 3 Content & Message Filters
01 Content Filters: Conditions, Actions & Message-Level Policy In Production 02 Text Resources: Content Dictionaries, Disclaimers & Templates In Production L1 M3 · Lab 1: Text Resources: Content Dictionaries, Disclaimers & Templates Lab 03 Message Filters: Syntax, Rules & Processing Order In Production L2 M3 · Lab 2: Message Filters: Syntax, Rules & Processing Order Lab 04 Scan Behavior: Attachment, Encoding & Malformed-Message Handling In Production L3 M3 · Lab 3: Scan Behavior: Attachment, Encoding & Malformed-Message Handling Lab 05 Configure Data Loss Prevention: Policies, Classifiers & Remediation In Production L4 M3 · Lab 4: Configure Data Loss Prevention: Policies, Classifiers & Remediation Lab 06 Filter Precedence — When Content, Message & Outbreak Filters Disagree In Production L5 M3 · Lab 5: Filter Precedence — When Content, Message & Outbreak Filters Disagree Lab MODULE 4 LDAP, Quarantines & Delivery Control
01 LDAP Queries: Accept, Routing & Directory Harvest Attack Prevention In Production L1 M4 · Lab 1: LDAP Queries: Accept, Routing & Directory Harvest Attack Prevention Lab 02 Configure Quarantines: Spam, Policy, Virus & Outbreak In Production L2 M4 · Lab 2: Configure Quarantines: Spam, Policy, Virus & Outbreak Lab 03 Quarantine Operations: Search, Release & Local vs. External Spam Quarantine In Production L3 M4 · Lab 3: Quarantine Operations: Search, Release & Local vs. External Spam Quarantine Lab 04 Control Delivery with Safelists and Blocklists In Production L4 M4 · Lab 4: Control Delivery with Safelists and Blocklists Lab 05 Virtual Gateways: Isolating Sender Reputation Across IP Interfaces In Production L5 M4 · Lab 5: Virtual Gateways: Isolating Sender Reputation Across IP Interfaces Lab MODULE 5 Email Authentication & Encryption
01 Cryptography Foundations: Hashing, Encryption & PKI In Production 02 The SSL/TLS Handshake: Packet Walk In Production L1 M5 · Lab 1: The SSL/TLS Handshake: Packet Walk Lab 03 SPF & SIDF: Publishing and Evaluating Sender Authorization In Production L2 M5 · Lab 2: SPF & SIDF: Publishing and Evaluating Sender Authorization Lab 04 DKIM Signing: Selectors, Key Rotation & DNS Publication In Production L3 M5 · Lab 3: DKIM Signing: Selectors, Key Rotation & DNS Publication Lab 05 DMARC: Alignment, Policy Enforcement & Aggregate Reporting In Production L4 M5 · Lab 4: DMARC: Alignment, Policy Enforcement & Aggregate Reporting Lab 06 Forged Email Detection: Display-Name Spoofing Beyond DMARC In Production L5 M5 · Lab 5: Forged Email Detection: Display-Name Spoofing Beyond DMARC Lab 07 Configure Email Encryption: Envelope Encryption Profiles & Content-Filter Triggers In Production L6 M5 · Lab 6: Configure Email Encryption: Envelope Encryption Profiles & Content-Filter Triggers Lab 08 Cisco Secure Email: On-Prem Appliance vs. Cloud Gateway In Production 09 End-to-End Email Authentication & Encryption In Production L7 M5 · Lab 7: End-to-End Email Authentication & Encryption Lab Part of the Cisco Security Track
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Exam Mapping
The objective namespace is separate from the course namespace — a blueprint revision cannot break a course link, and the reverse is also true.
Domain 2 · 15%
Spam Control with Talos SenderBase and Antispam
Domain 3 · 20%
Content and Message Filters
Domain 4 · 15%
LDAP and SMTP Sessions
Domain 5 · 20%
Email Authentication and Encryption
Domain 6 · 15%