CCNA Cyber Ops SECOPS — Certification Guide 210-255: Learn the skills to pass the 210-255 certification exam and become a competent SECOPS associate

Develop your cybersecurity knowledge to obtain CCNA Cyber Ops certification and gain professional skills to identify and remove potential threats

Key Features

• Explore different security analysis tools and develop your knowledge to confidently pass the 210-255 SECOPS exam
• Grasp real-world cybersecurity skills such as threat analysis, event correlation, and identifying malicious activity
• Learn through mock tests, useful tips, and up-to-date exam questions

Book Description

Cybersecurity roles have grown exponentially in the IT industry and an increasing number of organizations have set up security operations centers (SOCs) to monitor and respond to security threats. The 210-255 SECOPS exam is the second of two exams required for the Cisco CCNA Cyber Ops certification. By providing you with fundamental knowledge of SOC events, this certification validates your skills in managing cybersecurity processes such as analyzing threats and malicious activities, conducting security investigations, and using incident playbooks.

You'll start by understanding threat analysis and computer forensics, which will help you build the foundation for learning intrusion analysis and incident response principles. The book will then guide you through vocabulary and techniques for analyzing data from the network and previous events. In later chapters, you'll discover how to identify, analyze, correlate, and respond to incidents, including how to communicate technical and inaccessible (non-technical) examples. You'll be able to build on your knowledge as you learn through examples and practice questions, and finally test your knowledge with two mock exams that allow you to put what you've learned to the test.

By the end of this book, you'll have the skills to confidently pass the SECOPS 210-255 exam and achieve CCNA Cyber Ops certification.

What you will learn

• Get up to speed with the principles of threat analysis, in a network and on a host device
• Understand the impact of computer forensics
• Examine typical and atypical network data to identify intrusions
• Identify the role of the SOC, and explore other individual roles in incident response
• Analyze data and events using common frameworks
• Learn the phases of an incident, and how incident response priorities change for each phase

Who this book is for

This book is for anyone who wants to prepare for the Cisco 210-255 SECOPS exam (CCNA Cyber Ops). If you're interested in cybersecurity, have already completed cybersecurity training as part of your formal education, or you work in Cyber Ops and just need a new certification, this book is for you. The certification guide looks at cyber operations from the ground up, consolidating concepts you may or may not have heard about before, to help you become a better cybersecurity operator.

Table of Contents

1. Classifying Threats
2. Operating System families and key differences in structure
3. Computer Forensics and Evidence handling
4. Identifying rogue data from a data set
5. Warning signs from network data
6. Network security data analysis
7. Roles and responsibilities during an incident
8. Network and Server Profiling
9. Compliance Frameworks
10. Data Normalization and Exploitation
11. Drawing Conclusions From the Data
12. The Cyber Kill Chain Model
13. Incident Handling Activities
14. Mock Exam 1
15. Mock Exam 2

Andrew Chu is a networking and cybersecurity lecturer at London Metropolitan University (LMU). LMU is a Cisco Academy, Academy Support Center, and Instructor Training Center.

He has a postgraduate certificate in computer science education, and teaches CCNA routing and switching, as well as CCNA Cyber Ops, through LMU. A former military engineer, he enjoys testing systems to destruction, and learning from this and sharing the results.

He has over 10 years' experience of working in physical and electronic systems security, including advising on and authoring security policies and risk assessments. This includes creating a community-owned ISP; working in government service; and training industry professionals, career changers, and new students.