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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 types of evidence

As an up-and-coming cybersecurity professional, it's important to understand the various types of evidence that are related to an investigation such as a cyber-crime investigation. In the field of cybersecurity operations, there are three types of evidence that every security professional needs to know about and understand how they are related to a forensic investigation on a compromised system. These types of evidence are outlined here:

  • Best evidence: This type of evidence is the original evidence captured from a crime scene by a computer forensics professional. This type of evidence is presented in court during a prosecution. This type of evidence does not require any additional validation to prove itself to a court; it is what it is. An example of best evidence is data that may reside in RAM that is related to the cyber-crime.
  • Corroborative evidence: This type of evidence is defined as evidence that supports a theory related to the...