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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 network-based attacks

Throughout the course of this book, you have learned that threat actors focus on hacking, as a business, to steal data for financial gain. However, there are many threat actors who just want to see organizations burn, metaphorically speaking. Some threat actors hack for financial gain, some hack to steal data, while others hack for fun. Whatever the reason, their intentions are generally bad.

Hackers usually look for vulnerabilities within their target systems, whether the vulnerability exists within an application, operating system, or even within network protocols. Many network and security professionals commonly overlook network-based attacks. These types of attacks allow an attacker to exploit the vulnerabilities found within the TCP/IP protocol suite. During the initial development of TCP/IP, security was not even a concern as it is today. Over the years, as technologies and newer network protocols have been developed, many protocol developers...