There is a growing need for security professionals in the business world. As awareness of security threats grow, businesses of all sizes are beginning to understand the need for increased preparedness against these threats. Our Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate training (previously named CCNA Cyber Ops) is an excellent starting point for those interested in a career in this exciting, challenging and growing field.

This boot camp builds your foundation of cybersecurity knowledge and skills — with the goal of preparing you for the responsibilities of an entry-level security analyst working in a SOC. It also prepares you to validate your new skills by earning your Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate certification.

• Two days of intense instruction with an expert instructor
• Infosec digital courseware (physical textbooks available to purchase)
• Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate exam voucher (200-201)
• 3-month subscription to Infosec Skills to continue learning after your boot camp
• 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
• 90-day access to replays of daily lessons (Flex Pro)
• Exam Pass Guarantee (Flex Pro)

Infosec’s materials are always up to date and synchronized with the latest Cisco exam objectives. Our industry-leading curriculum and expert instructors have led to the highest pass rates in the industry. More than 93% of Infosec students pass their certification exams on their first attempt.

• Network engineers
• Network administrators
• Systems administrators
• System engineers
• IT managers/directors
• Anyone looking to improve their network skills

On May 29, 2020, Cisco revamped its CCNA Cyber Ops certification and exam. The certification was renamed Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate, and — in line with other entry-level Cisco certifications — there is now only one exam to pass to get certified.

The new exam, Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Fundamentals (200-201 CBROPS), replaced the previous Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (210-250) and Implementing Cisco Cybersecurity Operations (210-255) exams, which were retired on May 28.

This boot camp prepares you to pass the new Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Fundamentals exam, which is required to become a Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate. Topics covered in the exam include:

• Security concepts
• Security monitoring
• Host-based analysis
• Network intrusion analysis
• Security policies and procedures

Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Operations Fundamentals (200-201)

Security concepts

• Describe the CIA triad
• Compare security deployments
  • Network, endpoint and application security systems
  • Agentless and agent-based protections
  • Legacy antivirus and antimalware
  • SIEM, SOAR and log management
• Describe security terms
  • Threat intelligence (TI)
  • Threat hunting
  • Malware analysis
  • Threat actor
  • Run book automation (RBA)
  • Reverse engineering
  • Sliding window anomaly detection
  • Principle of least privilege
  • Zero trust
  • Threat intelligence platform (TIP)
• Compare security concepts
  • Risk (risk scoring/risk weighting, risk reduction, risk assessment)
  • Threat
  • Vulnerability
  • Exploit
• Describe the principles of the defense-in-depth strategy
• Compare access control models
  • Discretionary access control
  • Mandatory access control
  • Nondiscretionary access control
  • Authentication, authorization, accounting
  • Rule-based access control
  • Time-based access control
  • Role-based access control
• Describe terms as defined in CVSS
  • Attack vector
  • Attack complexity
  • Privileges required
  • User interaction
  • Scope
• Identify the challenges of data visibility (network, host, and cloud) in detection
• Identify potential data loss from provided traffic profiles
• Interpret the 5-tuple approach to isolate a compromised host in a grouped set of logs
• Compare rule-based detection vs. behavioral and statistical detection

Security monitoring

• Compare attack surface and vulnerability
• Identify the types of data provided by these technologies
  • TCP dump
  • NetFlow
  • Next-gen firewall
  • Traditional stateful firewall
  • Application visibility and control
  • Web content filtering
  • Email content filtering
• Describe the impact of these technologies on data visibility
  • Access control list
  • NAT/PAT
  • Tunneling
  • TOR
  • Encryption
  • P2P
  • Encapsulation
  • Load balancing
• Describe the uses of these data types in security monitoring
  • Full packet capture
  • Session data
  • Transaction data
  • Statistical data
  • Metadata
  • Alert data
• Describe network attacks, such as protocol-based, denial of service, distributed denial of service and man-in-the-middle
• Describe web application attacks, such as SQL injection, command injections and crosssite scripting
• Describe social engineering attacks
• Describe endpoint-based attacks, such as buffer overflows, command and control (C2), malware and ransomware
• Describe evasion and obfuscation techniques, such as tunneling, encryption and proxies
• Describe the impact of certificates on security (includes PKI, public/private crossing the network, asymmetric/symmetric)
• Identify the certificate components in a given scenario
• Cipher-suite
  • X.509 certificates
  • Key exchange
  • Protocol version
  • PKCS

Host-based analysis

• Describe the functionality of these endpoint technologies in regard to security monitoring
  • Host-based intrusion detection
  • Antimalware and antivirus
  • Host-based firewall
  • Application-level whitelisting/blacklisting
  • Systems-based sandboxing (such as Chrome, Java, Adobe Reader)
• Identify components of an operating system (such as Windows and Linux) in a given scenario
• Describe the role of attribution in an investigation
  • Assets
  • Threat actor
  • Indicators of compromise
  • Indicators of attack
  • Chain of custody
• Identify type of evidence used based on provided logs
  • Best evidence
  • Corroborative evidence
  • Indirect evidence
• Compare tampered and untampered disk image
• Interpret operating system, application, or command line logs to identify an event
• Interpret the output report of a malware analysis tool (such as a detonation chamber or sandbox)
  • Hashes
  • URLs
  • Systems, events and networking

Network intrusion analysis

• Map the provided events to source technologies
  • IDS/IPS
  • Firewall
  • Network application control
  • Proxy logs
  • Antivirus
  • Transaction data (NetFlow)
• Compare impact and no impact for these items
  • False positive
  • False negative
  • True positive
  • True negative
  • Benign
• Compare deep packet inspection with packet filtering and stateful firewall operation
• Compare inline traffic interrogation and taps or traffic monitoring
• Compare the characteristics of data obtained from taps or traffic monitoring and transactional data (NetFlow) in the analysis of network traffic
• Extract files from a TCP stream when given a PCAP file and Wireshark
• Identify key elements in an intrusion from a given PCAP file
  • Source address
  • Destination address
  • Source port
  • Destination port
  • Protocols
  • Payloads
• Interpret the fields in protocol headers as related to intrusion analysis
  • Ethernet frame
  •  IPv4
  • IPv6
  • TCP
  • UDP
  • ICMP
  • DNS
  • SMTP/POP3/IMAP
  • HTTP/HTTPS/HTTP2
  • ARP
• Interpret common artifact elements from an event to identify an alert
  • IP address (source / destination)
  • Client and server port identity
  • Process (file or registry)
  • System (API calls)
  • Hashes
  • URI / URL
• Interpret basic regular expressions

Security policies and procedures

• Describe management concepts
  • Asset management
  • Configuration management
  • Mobile device management
  • Patch management
  • Vulnerability management
• Describe the elements in an incident response plan as stated in NIST.SP800-61
• Apply the incident handling process (such as NIST.SP800-61) to an event
• Map elements to these steps of analysis based on the NIST.SP800-61
  • Preparation
  • Detection and analysis
  • Containment, eradication, and recovery
  • Post-incident analysis (lessons learned)
• Map the organization stakeholders against the NIST IR categories (CMMC, NIST.SP800-61)
  • Preparation
  • Detection and analysis
  • Containment, eradication, and recovery
  • Post-incident analysis (lessons learned)
• Describe concepts as documented in NIST.SP800-86
  • Evidence collection order
  • Data integrity
  • Data preservation
  • Volatile data collection
• Identify these elements used for network profiling
  • Total throughput
  • Session duration
  • Ports used
  • Critical asset address space
• Identify these elements used for server profiling
  • Listening ports
  • Logged in users/service accounts
  • Running processes
  • Running tasks
  • Applications
• Identify protected data in a network
  • PII
  • PSI
  • PHI
  • Intellectual property
• Classify intrusion events into categories as defined by security models, such as Cyber Kill Chain Model and Diamond Model of Intrusion
• Describe the relationship of SOC metrics to scope analysis (time to detect, time to contain, time to respond, time to control)