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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 Linux components

The Linux operating system is quite popular within the cybersecurity industry. If you're a hardcore Windows user, as you go further into the cybersecurity realm, you'll begin to see that Linux is almost everywhere, from web servers and client systems to using Linux to perform offensive security testing. In this section, we'll take a look at various Linux components that are helpful to a security professional.

Linux Terminal

The Linux Terminal is simply the application or program that provides terminal access to the operating system. Put simply, Terminal provides the user with a Command-Line Interface (CLI) to perform tasks.

When Terminal is opened, you'll see the current user and the name of the host system. As a Linux user, it's always good to know your current working directory on the system. The pwd command will display your present working directory, as shown in the following screenshot:

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