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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

Stateful and deep packet firewall operations

Throughout the course of this book thus far, NGFW has been mentioned many times; however, the NGFW security appliance is usually deployed within very large enterprise networks that contain hundreds to thousands of clients and devices. However, within a smaller organization, you will commonly find a small-to-medium-sized network and, as expected, a small budget allocated for IT resources. This leads to less costly firewall solutions to safeguard the small business network from potential threats.

As a soon-to-be cybersecurity professional, it's important to be aware that there are other types of firewalls within the industry. Two common types of firewalls are outlined here:

  • Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) firewall
  • Stateful firewall

This leads on to say that not all types of firewalls operate the same. To put it simply, the DPI firewall and stateful firewall do not share equal capabilities with each other, and the same...