Begin a successful career in cybersecurity operations by achieving Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 certification

Key Features

• Receive expert guidance on how to kickstart your career in the cybersecurity industry
• Gain hands-on experience while studying for the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate certification exam
• Work through practical labs and exercises mapped directly to the exam objectives

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Incorporate security into your architecture to prevent attacks
• Discover how to implement and prepare secure designs
• Identify access control models for digital assets
• Identify point of entry, determine scope, contain threats, and remediate
• Find out how to perform malware analysis and interpretation
• Implement security technologies to detect and analyze threats

Who this book is for

This book is for students who want to pursue a career in cybersecurity operations, threat detection and analysis, and incident response. IT professionals, network security engineers, security operations center (SOC) engineers, and cybersecurity analysts looking for a career boost and those looking to get certified in Cisco cybersecurity technologies and break into the cybersecurity industry will also benefit from this book. No prior knowledge of IT networking and cybersecurity industries is needed.

Table of Contents

1. Exploring Networking Concepts
2. Exploring Network Components and Security Systems
3. Discovering Security Concepts
4. Understanding Security Principles
5. Identifying Attack Methods
6. Working with Cryptography and PKI
7. Delving into Endpoint Threat Analysis
8. Interpreting Endpoint Security
9. Exploring Computer Forensics
10. Performing Intrusion Analysis
11. Security Management Techniques
12. Dealing with Incident Response
13. Implementing Incident Handling
14. Implementing Cisco Security Solutions
15. Working with Cisco Security Solutions
16. Real-World Implementation and Best Practices
17. Mock Exam 1

About the Author

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity instructor and an InfoSec author. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics, and enterprise networking. He is a holder of many certifications, including CEH, CHFI, PAWSP, and 3xCCNA (in CyberOps, Security, and Routing and Switching).

Glen loves teaching and mentoring others, and sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books that focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response (IR), implementing security solutions, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.