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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

Understanding the role of attribution in an investigation

When a cyber-crime has occurred, both attribution and investigation processes are carried out after the attack. Attribution helps us to determine who performed the attack, such as identifying the threat actor or hacker. Being able to identify an attacker allows us to take legal action against the culprit for performing malicious actions on the victim's system or network. This information is gathered after an attack has occurred on the system. As mentioned in previous sections, a hacker always leaves a trail of breadcrumbs to follow, which helps us trace an attack back to the threat actor.

One of the many challenges cybersecurity professionals face during attribution is actually tracing an attack back to the threat actor. If a cyber-attack occurred through the internet, you can trace the attack back to a source Internet Protocol (IP) address. However, we need to keep in mind that the person behind the attack may be a...