Overview
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Cybersecurity specialists are in high demand. This course prepares you to fill these roles as it covers the Security Concepts portion of the Cisco CBROPS exam.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Defending the network
- Prepare for Cisco CBROPS exam
- Setting up your test environment
- Recognizing today’s threats
- Understanding the threat actor
- Outlining the CIA triad
- Having zero trust
- Exploring risk
- Analyzing risk
- Challenge: Overview of malware
- Solution: Overview of malware
- Using the CVSS
- Interpreting CVSS metric groups
- Understanding the CVE and the NVD
- Challenge: Temporal metric group
- Solution: Temporal metric group
- Using the principle of least privilege
- Defining access control
- Comparing access control models
- Summarizing triple-A security
- Verifying authentication
- Granting authorization
- Accounting and logging activity
- Challenge: Network diagram
- Solution: Network diagram
- Recognizing the complexity of today’s environment
- Leveraging threat intelligence
- Hunting threats
- Analyzing malware
- Dissecting malware using reverse engineering
- Detecting anomalies using the sliding window
- Comparing detection methods
- Using five-tuple log analysis
- Monitoring data loss using traffic profiles
- Identifying challenges of data visibility
- Comparing security deployments
- Using agentless or agent-based methods
- Utilizing SIEM, SOAR, and log management
- Employing runbook automation
- Exploring Nmap
- Challenge: Using Nmap
- Solution: Using Nmap
- Next steps
