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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

Understanding the incident handling process

Cyber-attacks and threats exist all around us and each day threat actors are always looking for new techniques to compromise organizations' networks. As many professionals work both continuously and tirelessly to safeguard their organizations from various cyber-attacks, this is truly a challenging task. Within the field of cybersecurity, there are many roles, such as those that uphold the responsibility of implementing countermeasures to prevent cyber-attacks.

In reality, there are no systems or networks that are 100% protected from cyber-threats as it's only a matter of time before a threat actor will discover a vulnerability within a system and exploit it. While many organizations focus on implementing preventative measures such as security appliances and solutions, they also need to prepare themselves for the event that their security solution fails to stop an attack. As there are many events that occur on a network, such...