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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

Configuring an IPS

In this section, you will learn how to implement an IPS on a Cisco IOS router to scan and filter inbound traffic to the corporate network. As with the previous hands-on exercises, we will be using the Cisco Packet Tracer application to simulate a Cisco environment.

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

  • In the lab topology, use Cisco 1941 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 is installed on your computer, please build the following network topology for this lab exercise:

Figure 14.18 – Cisco IPS lab topology

As shown in the preceding diagram, the HQ router is connected to the 192.168.1.0/24 network, which represents an internal corporate network. The objective is to configure the HQ router to also function as an IPS to scan and filter inbound...