Overview
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Review incident response concepts and best practices as you prepare for the CySA+ (CS0-002) exam. Learn about classifying security incidents, conducting investigations, and more.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Incident response
- What you need to know
- Study resources
- Identifying and classifying security incidents
- Threat classification
- Zero days and the advanced persistent threat
- Determining incident severity
- Build an incident response program
- Creating an incident response team
- Incident communications plan
- Incident identification
- Escalation and notification
- Mitigation
- Containment techniques
- Incident eradication and recovery
- Validation
- Post-incident activities
- Network symptoms
- Rogue access points and evil twins
- Endpoint symptoms
- Application symptoms
- Conducting investigations
- Evidence types
- Introduction to forensics
- System and file forensics
- File carving
- Creating forensic images
- Digital forensics toolkit
- Operating system analysis
- Password forensics
- Network forensics
- Software forensics
- Mobile device forensics
- Embedded device forensics
- Chain of custody
- Ediscovery and evidence production
- Next steps
