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CCNA Cyber Ops SECOPS (210-255)

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The Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops certification provides candidates the opportunity to start a career inside a Security Operations Center (SOC), working with cybersecurity Analysts at the associate level. The CCNA SECOPS 210-255 exam validates a candidate's abilities to effectively handle the tasks, commitments, and duties of an associate-level Security Analyst. The CCNA Cyber Ops certification exam proves that the candidate has the skills related to security concepts, security monitoring, and network intrusion analysis.
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1

Introduction

  • About the 210-255 CCNA Cyber Ops SECOPS Exam
  • About the CCNA Cyber Ops SECOPS #210-255 Official Cert Guide
2

Threat Analysis

  • What Is the CIA Triad: Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability?
  • Threat Modeling
  • Defining and Analyzing the Attack Vector
  • Understanding the Attack Complexity
  • Privileges and User Interaction
  • The Attack Scope
  • Review All Key Topics
3

Forensics

  • Introduction to Cybersecurity Forensics
  • The Role of Attribution in a Cybersecurity Investigation
  • The Use of Digital Evidence
  • Fundamentals of Microsoft Windows Forensics
  • Fundamentals of Linux Forensics
  • Review All Key Topics
4

Fundamentals of Intrusion Analysis

  • Common Artifact Elements and Sources of Security Events
  • Understanding Regular Expressions
  • Protocols, Protocol Headers, and Intrusion Analysis
  • Using Packet Captures for Intrusion Analysis
  • Review All Key Topics
5

NetFlow for Cybersecurity

  • Introduction to NetFlow
  • NetFlow Versions
  • IPFIX
  • NetFlow for Cybersecurity and Incident Response
  • NetFlow Analysis Tools
  • Review All Key Topics
6

Introduction to Incident Response and the Incident Handling Process

  • Introduction to Incident Response
  • The Incident Response Plan
  • The Incident Response Process
  • Information Sharing and Coordination
  • Incident Response Team Structure
  • The Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing (VERIS)
  • Review All Key Topics
7

Incident Response Teams

  • Computer Security Incident Response Teams (CSIRTs)
  • Product Security Incident Response Teams (PSIRTs)
  • National CSIRTs and Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs)
  • Coordination Centers
  • Incident Response Providers and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs)
  • Review All Key Topics
8

Compliance Frameworks

  • Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS)
  • Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
  • Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
  • Summary
  • References
  • Review All Key Topics
9

Network and Host Profiling

  • Network Profiling
  • Host Profiling
  • Summary
  • References
  • Review All Key Topics
10

The Art of Data and Event Analysis

  • Normalizing Data
  • Using the 5-Tuple Correlation to Respond to Security Incidents
  • Retrospective Analysis and Identifying Malicious Files
  • Mapping Threat Intelligence with DNS and Other Artifacts
  • Deterministic Versus Probabilistic Analysis
  • Review All Key Topics
11

Intrusion Event Categories

  • Diamond Model of Intrusion
  • Cyber Kill Chain Model
  • Summary
  • References
  • Review All Key Topics

1

Threat Analysis

  • Scanning the Rootkit
  • Performing the Initial Scan
  • Understanding attack complexity
2

Forensics

  • Understanding cybersecurity investigations
  • Understanding disk imaging
  • Understanding Windows file system
  • Understanding file system structure
  • Understanding Linux Boot Process
3

Fundamentals of Intrusion Analysis

  • Understanding fundamentals of intrusion analysis
  • Understanding security threat intelligence
  • Understanding evasion techniques
  • Understanding header protocol
  • Working with Wireshark's Interface
  • Analyzing the Capture File to Find the Attack(s)
  • Generating Network Traffic and Using Filters
  • Examining the traffic between client and server
  • Confirming the Spoofing Attack in Wireshark
  • Observing Traffic Patterns Using Wireshark
  • Analyzing Protocols with Wireshark
4

NetFlow for Cybersecurity

  • Understanding NetFlow cache
  • Understanding NetFlow for cybersecurity
  • Examining the DDOS_Attack.pcap File
  • Exporting your Windows logs
  • Making Syslog Entries Readable
  • Identifying a suspicious account on the System User Groups
  • Enabling logging for audited objects
  • Examining the Audited Events
5

Introduction to Incident Response and the Incident Handling Process

  • Understanding response plan
  • Understanding VERIS schema
6

Incident Response Teams

  • Establishing a CSIRT
  • Consulting a Vulnerability Database
7

Compliance Frameworks

  • Uploading the Trojan horse simulator to VirusTotal
  • Uploading the Trojan horse simulator to Malware
  • Assessing the impact of malware
8

Network and Host Profiling

  • Understanding network profiling
9

The Art of Data and Event Analysis

  • Understanding SIEM
  • Using 5-Tuple correlation
  • Understanding threat intelligence
  • Understanding event analysis
10

Intrusion Event Categories

  • Performing Reconnaissance on a Network
  • Understanding Kill Chain Model

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