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Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 Certification Guide

By : Glen D. Singh
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Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 Certification Guide

By: Glen D. Singh

Overview of this book

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.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: Network and Security Concepts
5
Section 2: Principles of Security Monitoring
9
Section 3: Host and Network-Based Analysis
14
Section 4: Security Policies and Procedures
21
Chapter 17: Mock Exam 1
22
Chapter 18: Mock Exam 2

Working with malware analysis tools

As a cybersecurity professional, you may be required to perform analysis on suspicious files, Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), or even by using the hash values. Many times, a user may scan a file using an anti-malware application and the results will show that the file is benign and not harmful. However, keep in mind that sometimes an anti-malware protection application may not always detect a malicious file or URL to be harmful, and this can be huge concern. Therefore, it's really important to get a second opinion from another malware analysis scanning tool.

Important note

The Cisco Threat Grid is a product from Cisco that is an on-premises malware analysis sandbox.

To gain a better understanding of malware analysis tools, let's take a look at Cisco's Firepower Management Center (FMC). Cisco FMC is integrated in many of Cisco's security appliances and solutions, and this allows a security engineer to gain an overview...