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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

Deploying a zone-based firewall

In this section, you will learn how to implement a ZPF using a Cisco IOS router on a network. To get started with this exercise, we'll be using the Cisco Packet Tracer application. This application will allow us to create a simulated Cisco environment to practice our skills and gain experience.

The objective of this lab is to configure a Cisco IOS router as a ZPF. This will allow the ZPF to allow (permit) host devices on the internal network (inside zone) to access external devices (outside zone). However, it will restrict traffic that is originating from the outside zone that is attempting to access any resources within the inside zone.

Before building the lab environment, the following are a couple of important factors:

  • In the lab topology, use Cisco 2911 routers and Cisco 2960 switches.
  • Use straight-through cables to interconnect each device as shown in the network diagram.

Once the Cisco Packet Tracer application...