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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

Introducing the principles of defense in depth

Simply by connecting a device to a network and the internet, organizations are opening up a doorway for hackers to infiltrate their network and wreak havoc. There are many organizations that have a firewall on their network and so think that both their internal network and users are protected from threats on the internet. A firewall as the only network appliance deployed between the internal network and the internet is simply a single layer of security for the entire organization. Many people will ask the question, Isn't the firewall designed to filter malicious inbound and outbound traffic?

Many years ago, the answer would have been simply a solid yes. However, as hackers are always looking for new strategies to infiltrate a network, we cannot just rely on a single layer of security to safeguard our assets. The answer to the question is not an easy yes anymore simply because there are many traffic types that use insecure network...