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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

Implementing an open source honeypot platform

In this section, you will learn how to implement an open source honeypot on a network. The purpose of a honeypot is to trick an attacker into thinking they are attacking a real system on a target network. However, the honeypot is a specialized system that contains various security detection, monitoring, and deflection tools that are used to help cybersecurity professionals better understand the intentions of the attacker.

You will learn how to implement T-Pot, an open source honeypot platform that contains a suite of threat detection and analysis tools, such as these:

  • Elastic Stack (ELK): ELK provides a visualization of all the threats detected by the honeypot.
  • Spiderfoot: This application allows a security professional to automate Open Source Intelligence (OSINT).
  • Suricata: Suricata is an open source network and security intrusion detection engine.
  • CyberChef: This is a web application for encoding, encryption,...