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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 10: Performing Intrusion Analysis

Within the cybersecurity industry, many organizations' systems and networks are being compromised by threat actors who will implant some type of malicious application that allows the victim's system to establish a connection back to a Command and Control (C2) server. Systems that are infected with malware should be isolated as soon as possible as the malware will attempt to spread across the network to infect other systems, and even attempt to connect to the C2 server for updates and instructions from the threat actor. These are just some examples of how threat actors and malware use your organization's network to do their bidding. As an up-and-coming cybersecurity professional, it's essential to understand the importance of performing intrusion analysis on a network and observe network traffic patterns for suspicious activities.

Throughout this chapter, you will learn about the types of data that are gathered by various...