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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

Exploring security terminologies

As a soon-to-be cybersecurity professional, you will notice that there are a lot of terminologies that are commonly used in various literature and discussions. It's important that you understand what these terminologies mean before diving further into advanced topics. This section focuses on learning about various security terminologies.

Threats, vulnerabilities, and exploits

A vulnerability is defined as a security weakness or design flaw on a system. Both hackers and cybersecurity professionals are racing against each other to discover design flaws in systems. Hackers are always looking for security weaknesses that allow them to compromise the system or network. Cybersecurity professionals are always on the hunt to discover these design flaws and fix them before hackers are able to find them. Security researchers are constantly working with operating systems and software vendors, application developers, and many other organizations to...