Book Description

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 industryGain hands-on experience while studying for the Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate certification examWork 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 attacksDiscover how to implement and prepare secure designsIdentify access control models for digital assetsIdentify point of entry, determine scope, contain threats, and remediateFind out how to perform malware analysis and interpretationImplement 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.