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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

Identifying intrusion events based on source technologies

As a cybersecurity professional, you will most likely be working within a type of security operation center (SOC), whether it's an in-house team or within a managed security service provider (MSSP). Regardless of the environment, you'll be exposed to many networking and security technologies and devices that are used to gather data about the network traffic. Such data is usually fed into Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software and other threat management tools such as Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR) tools.

The SIEM application is responsible for correlating all the events gathered from all networking and security devices within an organization and provides visibility of all potential security incidents that are occurring in real time. This allows security professionals to quickly see attacks as they are happening and gather details using a single pane of glass rather than...