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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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          Infosec’s CySA+ training is more than just a boot camp. We support you before, during and after your live training to ensure you’re fully prepared for your exam — and get certified on your first attempt.

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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
              • Whitelisting
              • Blacklisting
              • 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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