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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

Chapter 16: Real-World Implementation and Best Practices

In this chapter, you will take a deep dive into learning how to implement various real-world threat detection platforms on a network. Firstly, you will learn how to implement an open source Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tool on a network to gather, correlate, and monitor security alerts. Then, you will learn how to automate the process of discovering and exploiting vulnerabilities using both a vulnerability scanner and a breach and attack automation tool. This will teach you how attackers compromise your network and system and establish communication channels between compromised systems and a centralized server. Lastly, you will learn how to implement an open source honeypot platform on a network to detect and analyze threats.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Implementing an open source SIEM tool
  • Implementing tools to perform the active scanning of assets
  • Using an open...