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        Learn how to use behavioral analytics to prevent, detect and combat cyber threats! This boot camp provides the most comprehensive approach to earning CompTIA’s intermediate-level Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) certification.

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        CompTIA CySA+ training objectives

        This boot camp prepares you to pass the CompTIA CySA+ exam, which is focused on five domain areas:

        • Threat and vulnerability management
        • Software and systems security
        • Security operations and monitoring
        • Incident response
        • Compliance and assessment

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        Training overview

        Infosec’s authorized CompTIA CySA+ Boot Camp is a comprehensive five-day training that teaches you the knowledge and skills required to configure and use the latest industry-standard threat detection tools. You’ll learn how to perform data analysis to identify vulnerabilities and expose cyber threats — with the ultimate goal of helping organizations protect and secure their applications and systems.

        You’ll leave with the knowledge required to pass your CySA+ exam and the behavioral analytics skills needed to provide increased visibility into cyber threats.

        What you'll learn

        • Threat and vulnerability management
        • Software and systems security
        • Security operations and monitoring
        • Incident response
        • Compliance and assessment

        Who should attend

        • Cybersecurity analysts
        • Vulnerability analysts
        • Cybersecurity specialists
        • Anyone interested in building their skills as an analyst

        Prerequisites

        Although not required, CompTIA recommends three to four years of hands-on information security experience, as well as a Security+ certification or equivalent knowledge.

        Meets 8570.1 requirements

        The CySA+ certification meets 8570.1 mandate and is approved for five job categories, including:

        • Information Assurance Technician Level II
        • Cybersecurity Service Provider (CSSP) – Analyst
        • CSSP – Incident Respond
        • CSSP – Infrastructure Support
        • CSSP – Auditor

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          • Threat and vulnerability management

            1.1 Explain the importance of threat data and intelligence

            • Intelligence sources
              • Open-source intelligence
              • Proprietary/closed-source intelligence
              • Timeliness
              • Relevancy
              • Accuracy
            • Confidence levels
            • Indicator management
              • Structured Threat Information eXpression (STIX)
              • Trusted Automated eXchange of Indicator Information (TAXII)
              • OpenIoC
            • Threat classification
              • Known threat vs. unknown threat
              • Zero-day
              • Advanced persistent threat
            • Threat actors
              • Nation-state
              • Hacktivist
              • Organized crime
              • Insider threat
                • Intentional
                • Unintentional
            • Intelligence cycle
              • Requirements
              • Collection
              • Analysis
              • Dissemination
              • Feedback
            • Commodity malware
            • Information sharing and analysis communities
              • Healthcare
              • Financial
              • Aviation
              • Government
              • Critical infrastructure

            1.2 Given a scenario, utilize threat intelligence to support organizational security

            • Attack frameworks
              • MITRE ATT&CK
              • The Diamond Model of Intrusion Analysis
              • Kill chain
            • Threat research
              • Reputational
              • Behavioral
              • Indicator of compromise (IoC)
              • Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS)
            • Threat modeling methodologies
              • Adversary capability
              • Total attack surface
              • Attack vector
              • Impact
              • Likelihood
            • Threat intelligence sharing with supported functions
              • Incident response
              • Vulnerability management
              • Risk management
              • Security engineering
              • Detection and monitoring

            1.3 Given a scenario, perform vulnerability management activities

            • Vulnerability identification
              • Asset criticality
              • Active vs. passive scanning
              • Mapping/enumeration
            • Validation
              • True positive
              • False positive
              • True negative
              • False negative
            • Remediation/mitigation
              • Configuration baseline
              • Patching
              • Hardening
              • Compensating controls
              • Risk acceptance
              • Verification of mitigation
            • Scanning parameters and criteria
              • Risks associated with scanning activities
              • Vulnerability feed
              • Scope
              • Credentialed vs. non-credentialed
              • Server-based vs. agent-based
              • Internal vs. external
              • Special considerations
                • Types of data
                • Technical constraints
                • Workflow
                • Sensitivity levels
                • Regulatory requirements
                • Segmentation
                • Intrusion prevention system (IPS), intrusion detection system (IDS) and firewall settings

            1.4 Given a scenario, analyze the output from common vulnerability assessment tools

            • Web application scanner
              • OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP)
              • Burp suite
              • Nikto
              • Arachni
            • Infrastructure vulnerability scanner
              • Nessus
              • OpenVAS
              • Qualys
            • Software assessment tools and techniques
              • Static analysis
              • Dynamic analysis
              • Reverse engineering
              • Fuzzing
            • Enumeration
              • Nmap
              • hping
              • Active vs. passive
              • Responder
            • Wireless assessment tools
              • Aircrack-ng
              • Reaver
              • oclHashcat
            • Cloud infrastructure assessment tools
              • ScoutSuite
              • Prowler
              • Pacu

            1.5 Explain the threats and vulnerabilities associated with specialized technology

            • Mobile
            • Internet of Things (IoT)
            • Embedded
            • Real-time operating system (RTOS)
            • System-on-Chip (SoC)
            • Field programmable gate array (FPGA)
            • Physical access control
            • Building automation systems
            • Vehicles and drones
              • CAN bus
            • Workflow and process automation systems
            • Industrial control system
            • Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
              • Modbus

            1.6 Explain the threats and vulnerabilities associated with operating in the cloud

            • Cloud service models
              • Software as a Service (SaaS)
              • Platform as a Service (PaaS)
              • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
            • Cloud deployment models
              • Public
              • Private
              • Community
              • Hybrid
            • Function as a Service (FaaS)/ serverless architecture
            • Infrastructure as code (IaC)
            • Insecure application programming interface (API)
            • Improper key management
            • Unprotected storage
            • Logging and monitoring
              • Insufficient logging and monitoring
              • Inability to access

            1.7 Given a scenario, implement controls to mitigate attacks and software vulnerabilities

            • Attack types
              • Extensible markup language (XML) attack
              • Structured query language (SQL) injection
              • Overflow attack
                • Buffer
                • Integer
                • Heap
              • Remote code execution
              • Directory traversal
              • Privilege escalation
              • Password spraying
              • Credential stuffing
              • Impersonation
              • Man-in-the-middle attack
              • Session hijacking
              • Rootkit
              • Cross-site scripting
                • Reflected
                • Persistent
                • Document object model (DOM)
            • Vulnerabilities
              • Improper error handling
              • Dereferencing
              • Insecure object reference
              • Race condition
              • Broken authentication
              • Sensitive data exposure
              • Insecure components
              • Insufficient logging and monitoring
              • Weak or default configurations
              • Use of insecure functions
                • strcpy

            Software and systems security

            2.1 Given a scenario, apply security solutions for infrastructure management

            • Cloud vs. on-premises
            • Asset management
              • Asset tagging
            • Segmentation
              • Physical
              • Virtual
              • Jumpbox
              • System isolation
                • Air gap
            • Network architecture
              • Physical
              • Software-defined
              • Virtual private cloud (VPC)
              • Virtual private network (VPN)
              • Serverless
            • Change management
            • Virtualization
              • Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
            • Containerization
            • Identity and access management
              • Privilege management
              • Multifactor authentication (MFA)
              • Single sign-on (SSO)
              • Federation
              • Role-based
              • Attribute-based
              • Mandatory
              • Manual review
            • Cloud access security broker (CASB)
            • Honeypot
            • Monitoring and logging
            • Encryption
            • Certificate management
            • Active defense

            2.2 Explain software assurance best practices

            • Platforms
              • Mobile
              • Web application
              • Client/server
              • Embedded
              • System-on-chip (SoC)
              • Firmware
            • Software development life cycle (SDLC) integration
            • DevSecOps
            • Software assessment methods
              • User acceptance testing
              • Stress test application
              • Security regression testing
              • Code review
            • Secure coding best practices
              • Input validation
              • Output encoding
              • Session management
              • Authentication
              • Data protection
              • Parameterized queries
            • Static analysis tools
            • Dynamic analysis tools
            • Formal methods for verification of critical software
            • Service-oriented architecture
              • Security Assertions
            • Markup Language (SAML)
              • Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
              • Representational State Transfer (REST)
              • Microservices

            2.3 Explain hardware assurance best practices

            • Hardware root of trust
              • Trusted platform module (TPM)
              • Hardware security module (HSM)
            • eFuse
            • Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)
            • Trusted foundry
            • Secure processing
              • Trusted execution
              • Secure enclave
              • Processor security extensions
              • Atomic execution
            • Anti-tamper
            • Self-encrypting drive
            • Trusted firmware updates
            • Measured boot and attestation
            • Bus encryption

            Security operations and monitoring

            3.1 Given a scenario, analyze data as part of security monitoring activities

            • Heuristics
            • Trend analysis
            • Endpoint
              • Malware
                • Reverse engineering
              • Memory
              • System and application behavior
                • Known-good behavior
                • Anomalous behavior
                • Exploit techniques
              • File system
              • User and entity behavior analytics (UEBA)
            • Network
              • Uniform Resource Locator (URL) and domain name system (DNS) analysis
                • Domain generation algorithm
              • Flow analysis
              • Packet and protocol analysis
                • Malware
            • Log review
              • Event logs
              • Syslog
              • Firewall logs
              • Web application firewall (WAF)
              • Proxy
              • Intrusion detection system (IDS)/ Intrusion prevention system (IPS)
            • Impact analysis
              • Organization impact vs. localized impact
              • Immediate vs. total
            • Security information and event management (SIEM) review
              • Rule writing
              • Known-bad Internet protocol (IP)
              • Dashboard
            • Query writing
              • String search
              • Script
              • Piping
            • E-mail analysis
              • Malicious payload
              • Domain Keys Identified Mail (DKIM)
              • Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance (DMARC)
              • Sender Policy Framework (SPF)
              • Phishing
              • Forwarding
              • Digital signature
              • E-mail signature block
              • Embedded links
              • Impersonation
              • Header

            3.2 Given a scenario, implement configuration changes to existing controls to improve security

            • Permissions
            • Allowlisting
            • Denylisting
            • Firewall
            • Intrusion prevention system (IPS) rules
            • Data loss prevention (DLP)
            • Endpoint detection and response (EDR)
            • Network access control (NAC)
            • Sinkholing
            • Malware signatures
              • Development/rule writing
            • Sandboxing
            • Port security

            3.3 Explain the importance of proactive threat hunting

            • Establishing a hypothesis
            • Profiling threat actors and activities
            • Threat hunting tactics
              • Executable process analysis
            • Reducing the attack surface area
            • Bundling critical assets
            • Attack vectors
            • Integrated intelligence
            • Improving detection capabilities

            3.4 Compare and contrast automation concepts and technologies

            • Workflow orchestration
              • Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)
            • Scripting
            • Application programming interface (API) integration
            • Automated malware signature creation
            • Data enrichment
            • Threat feed combination
            • Machine learning
            • Use of automation protocols and standards
              • Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP)
            • Continuous integration
            • Continuous deployment/delivery

            Incident response

            4.1 Explain the importance of the incident response process

            • Communication plan
              • Limiting communication to trusted parties
              • Disclosing based on regulatory/ legislative requirements
              • Preventing inadvertent release of information
              • Using a secure method of communication
              • Reporting requirements
            • Response coordination with relevant entities
              • Legal
              • Human resources
              • Public relations
              • Internal and external
              • Law enforcement
              • Senior leadership
              • Regulatory bodies
            • Factors contributing to data criticality
              • Personally identifiable information (PII)
              • Personal health information (PHI)
              • Sensitive personal information (SPI)
              • High value asset
              • Financial information
              • Intellectual property
              • Corporate information

            4.2 Given a scenario, apply the appropriate incident response procedure

            • Preparation
              • Training
              • Testing
              • Documentation of procedures
            • Detection and analysis
              • Characteristics contributing to severity level classification
              • Downtime
              • Recovery time
              • Data integrity
              • Economic
              • System process criticality
              • Reverse engineering
              • Data correlation
            • Containment
              • Segmentation
              • Isolation
            • Eradication and recovery
              • Vulnerability mitigation
              • Sanitization
              • Reconstruction/reimaging
              • Secure disposal
              • Patching
              • Restoration of permissions
              • Reconstitution of resources
              • Restoration of capabilities and services
              • Verification of logging/communication to security monitoring
            • Post-incident activities
              • Evidence retention
              • Lessons learned report
              • Change control process
              • Incident response plan update
              • Incident summary report
              • IoC generation
              • Monitoring

            4.3 Given an incident, analyze potential indicators of compromise

            • Network-related
              • Bandwidth consumption
              • Beaconing
              • Irregular peer-to-peer communication
              • Rogue device on the network
              • Scan/sweep
              • Unusual traffic spike
              • Common protocol over non-standard port
            • Host-related
              • Processor consumption
              • Memory consumption
              • Drive capacity consumption
              • Unauthorized software
              • Malicious process
              • Unauthorized change
              • Unauthorized privilege
              • Data exfiltration
              • Abnormal OS process behavior
              • File system change or anomaly
              • Registry change or anomaly
              • Unauthorized scheduled task
            • Application-related
              • Anomalous activity
              • Introduction of new accounts
              • Unexpected output
              • Unexpected outbound communication
              • Service interruption
              • Application log

            4.4 Given a scenario, utilize basic digital forensics techniques

            • Network
              • Wireshark
              • tcpdump
            • Endpoint
              • Disk
              • Memory
            • Mobile
            • Cloud
            • Virtualization
            • Legal hold
            • Procedures
            • Hashing
              • Changes to binaries
            • Carving
            • Data acquisition

            Compliance and assessment

            5.1 Understand the importance of data privacy and protection

            • Privacy vs. security
            • Non-technical controls
              • Classification
              • Ownership
              • Retention
              • Data types
              • Retention standards
              • Confidentiality
              • Legal requirements
              • Data sovereignty
              • Data minimization
              • Purpose limitation
              • Non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
            • Technical controls
              • Encryption
              • Data loss prevention (DLP)
              • Data masking
              • Deidentification
              • Tokenization
              • Digital rights management (DRM)
                • Watermarking
              • Geographic access requirements
              • Access controls

            5.2 Given a scenario, apply security concepts in support of organizational risk mitigation

            • Business impact analysis
            • Risk identification process
            • Risk calculation
              • Probability
              • Magnitude
            • Communication of risk factors
            • Risk prioritization
              • Security controls
              • Engineering trade offs
            • Systems assessment
            • Documented compensating controls
            • Training and exercises
              • Red team
              • Blue team
              • White team
              • Tabletop exercise
            • Supply chain assessment
              • Vendor due diligence
              • Hardware source authenticity

            5.3 Explain the importance of frameworks, policies, procedures and controls

            • Frameworks
              • Risk-based
              • Prescriptive
            • Policies and procedures
              • Code of conduct/ethics
              • Acceptable use policy (AUP)
              • Password policy
              • Data ownership
              • Data retention
              • Account management
              • Continuous monitoring
              • Work product retention
            • Category
              • Managerial
              • Operational
              • Technical
            • Control type
              • Preventative
              • Detective
              • Corrective
              • Deterrent
              • Compensating
              • Physical
            • Audits and assessments
              • Regulatory
              • Compliance
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        Join Patrick Lane, Director of Products at CompTIA, in this audio version of our webinar to learn everything you need to know about the latest CySA+ certification and exam (CS0-002), including evolving security analyst job skills, common job roles for CySA+ holders, tips to pass the updated CySA+ exam and questions from live viewers.

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