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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

Comparing inline traffic interrogation techniques

As you will have realized, the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate (200-201) certification is entirely based on detecting, analyzing, and preventing threats within an enterprise network. Additionally, throughout the course of this book, you have gained knowledge and skills on various types of security solutions and how to perform various tasks as a cybersecurity professional. However, regardless of whether you are working in a SOC or are part of the Information Technology (IT) team within an organization, you definitely need to monitor network traffic in real time to detect any potential threats that may be moving across the network.

While there are security appliances such as an NGFW and next-generation IPS on your network, sometimes these devices may miss a new emerging threat that hasn't been seen before in the wild (the internet). Implementing inline traffic interrogation techniques will allow you, as a cybersecurity professional...