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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

Tools commonly used during a forensics investigation

There are many tools within the industry that computer forensics investigators use on a daily basis to help them acquire evidence and analyze large amounts of data at a time, while looking for any suspicious artifacts that relate to an investigation and/or a cyber-crime.

The following are some of the most commonly used forensic tools within the industry:

  • AccessData FTK: FTK is a computer forensics software that allows security professionals to acquire both the disk image and the contents of RAM for analysis. These tools also allow a forensic investigator to explore the entire filesystems of an acquired image, create duplicates of the forensic evidence, easily identify and extract various files, extract and read email messages, perform password-cracking techniques on password-protected files, and even generate reports.
  • Autopsy: This is an open source computer forensics software that is available for Microsoft Windows...