You're reading from Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 Certification Guide Learn blue teaming strategies and incident response techniques to mitigate cybersecurity incidents

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800560871

Length 660 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Cisco

Concepts

Cybersecurity

Author (1):

Glen D. Singh

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Network and Security Concepts

2. Chapter 1: Exploring Networking Concepts FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Exploring Network Components and Security Systems

4. Chapter 3: Discovering Security Concepts

5. Section 2: Principles of Security Monitoring

6. Chapter 4: Understanding Security Principles

7. Chapter 5: Identifying Attack Methods

8. Chapter 6: Working with Cryptography and PKI

9. Section 3: Host and Network-Based Analysis

10. Chapter 7: Delving into Endpoint Threat Analysis

11. Chapter 8: Interpreting Endpoint Security

12. Chapter 9: Exploring Computer Forensics

13. Chapter 10: Performing Intrusion Analysis

14. Section 4: Security Policies and Procedures

15. Chapter 11: Security Management Techniques

16. Chapter 12: Dealing with Incident Response

17. Chapter 13: Implementing Incident Handling

18. Chapter 14: Implementing Cisco Security Solutions

19. Chapter 15: Working with Cisco Security Solutions

20. Chapter 16: Real-World Implementation and Best Practices

21. Chapter 17: Mock Exam 1

22. Chapter 18: Mock Exam 2

23. Assessment

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Exploring various network services

As an up-and-coming cybersecurity professional, it's essential to understand the functions and roles of various network services and protocols. Many network protocols and services were not designed with security in mind. Back in the early days of computer networking, many organizations created protocols to assist with moving data between a source and destination. As time went on, computer wizards, or wizzes, began exploring and exploiting the functions of many network protocols and soon started to discover vulnerabilities within their design.

Today, hackers are continuing the same trends by looking for weaknesses within many protocols and services. Although most people may think that vulnerabilities exist only in a software application or even an operating system, security weaknesses do exist in many network protocols and hackers are exploiting them to assist with their intentions.

Therefore, by understanding the characteristics and functionalities...