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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

Chapter 9: Exploring Computer Forensics

Within the field of cybersecurity, there is an entire branch that focuses on digital and computer forensics. Computer forensics is a much-needed skill for anyone who is working in the field of IT security, whether they're a security administrator or even a security analyst, simply because there are many threat actors who commit a lot of cyber-crime and wreak havoc within many organizations. Using computer forensics, you'll be able to trace the source of a cyber-attack back to the threat actor, which will then allow you to take legal action against the responsible person or group.

Throughout this chapter, you will learn about the need for computer forensics within the cybersecurity industry and the important role it plays in helping us trace a cyber-attack back to the threat actors. Additionally, you will discover the characteristics of various types of evidence and will be able to compare tampered and untampered disk images to determine...