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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

Understanding a security operation center

In very large organizations such as an Internet Service Provider (ISP), you will often find a Network Operation Center (NOC). The NOC is responsible for monitoring the day-to-day network operations, performance, and services of a corporate network on a 24/7 basis. Even in large private organizations, there is usually an NOC that monitors the network to ensure everything is working as expected and to resolve any network outages, and to perform maintenance and upgrades. As more cyber attacks are occurring every day, the need for a dedicated team of persons with a specialized skill set to help safeguard and fight against cyber attacks is now ever-increasing. This is where the need for an SOC comes in to help us. An SOC is a type of operation center that is designed to monitor all security events on an enterprise network and remediate any threats.

An SOC can be implemented as an in-house solution or outsourced to a Managed Security Service Provider...