Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 Certification Guide

Begin a successful career in cybersecurity operations by achieving Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 certification

▶Book Description
Achieving the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 certification helps you to kickstart your career in cybersecurity operations. This book offers up-to-date coverage of 200-201 exam resources to fully equip you to pass on your first attempt.

The book covers the essentials of network security concepts and shows you how to perform security threat monitoring. You'll begin by gaining an in-depth understanding of cryptography and exploring the methodology for performing both host and network-based intrusion analysis. Next, you'll learn about the importance of implementing security management and incident response strategies in an enterprise organization. As you advance, you'll see why implementing defenses is necessary by taking an in-depth approach, and then perform security monitoring and packet analysis on a network. You'll also discover the need for computer forensics and get to grips with the components used to identify network intrusions. Finally, the book will not only help you to learn the theory but also enable you to gain much-needed practical experience for the cybersecurity industry.

By the end of this Cisco cybersecurity book, you'll have covered everything you need to pass the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 certification exam, and have a handy, on-the-job desktop reference guide.

▶What You Will Learn
-Incorporate security into your architecture to prevent attacks
-Discover how to implement and prepare secure designs
-Identify access control models for digital assets
-Identify point of entry, determine scope, contain threats, and remediate
-Find out how to perform malware analysis and interpretation
-Implement security technologies to detect and analyze threats

▶Key Features
-Receive expert guidance on how to kickstart your career in the cybersecurity industry
-Gain hands-on experience while studying for the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate certification exam
-Work through practical labs and exercises mapped directly to the exam objectiv

▶Who This Book Is For
This book is for students who want to pursue a career in cybersecurity operations, threat detection and analysis, and incident response. IT professionals, network security engineers, security operations center (SOC) engineers, and cybersecurity analysts looking for a career boost and those looking to get certified in Cisco cybersecurity technologies and break into the cybersecurity industry will also benefit from this book. No prior knowledge of IT networking and cybersecurity industries is needed.

▶What this book covers
- Chapter 1, Exploring Networking Concepts, covers the fundamentals of network protocol suites, and the characteristics and functionality of each layer of TCP/IP.

- Chapter 2, Exploring Network Components and Security Systems, covers the function of various networking protocols, and the role and functions of networking and security devices.

- Chapter 3, Discovering Security Concepts, covers the importance of implementing a Defense in Depth approach, explaining key security terminology and access control models.

- Chapter 4, Understanding Security Principles, covers the functionality of a security operations center (SOC), how data visibility is affected by network technologies, and how threat actors are able to exfiltrate data using common network protocols.

- Chapter 5, Identifying Attack Methods, covers the characteristics of common network-based attacks, web application attacks, social engineering attacks, and endpoint-based attacks, and explains how threat actors evade threat detection systems.

- Chapter 6, Working with Cryptography and PKI, covers the importance of cryptography and the characteristics of confidentiality, interiority, origin authentication, non-repudiation, and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).

- Chapter 7, Delving into Endpoint Threat Analysis, covers the fundamentals of endpoint security and how it protects a system of various security threats, and also covers key components of both Windows and Linux operating systems that can help identify endpoint-based threats.

- Chapter 8, Interpreting Endpoint Security, covers the filesystem for Windows and Linux operating systems, how security professionals are able to determine the vulnerability score of a security weakness, and malware analysis.

- Chapter 9, Exploring Computer Forensics, covers the fundamentals of computer forensics, types of evidence collected during an investigation, and how to compare disk images.

- Chapter 10, Performing Intrusion Analysis, covers the operations of various firewall technologies. It compares inline traffic interrogation techniques and explains the elements of various protocol headers as they relate to an intrusion.

- Chapter 11, Security Management Techniques, covers the fundamentals of identifying artifact elements and explains the need for various security management techniques and practices within an enterprise organization.

- Chapter 12, Dealing with Incident Response, covers the importance of incident response and handling processes, the characteristics of various security teams, and security compliance.

- Chapter 13, Implementing Incident Handling, covers the fundamentals of implementing forensics techniques into IR, explains how the Cyber Kill Chain can be used to stop a cyber-attack, and explains how the Diamond Model of Intrusion is used to better understand how an intrusion occurs.

- Chapter 14, Implementing Cisco Security Solutions, covers the fundamentals of implementing security solutions such as AAA, zone-based firewall, and an intrusion prevention system using Cisco solutions on a network.

- Chapter 15, Working with Cisco Security Solutions, covers the fundamentals of implementing additional security solutions such as Layer 2 security controls, securing networking devices, and configuring a Cisco ASA firewall appliance.

- Chapter 16, Real-World Implementation and Best Practices, covers advanced topics on implementing various real-world security solutions, such as an open source SIEM, performing active scanning of assets, performing breach and attack simulations, and deploying a honeypot.

- Chapter 17, Mock Exam 1, includes a simple mock test containing questions that will help you to prepare for the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate examination and will help you identify any topics you need to spend additional time learning about and practicing.

- Chapter 18, Mock Exam 2, includes another mock test containing questions that will help you to prepare for the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate examination.