2 months in a rush was what i needed to finish my CCNA Cyber Ops, it’s composed by 2 exams:
- 210-250 SECFND
- 210-255 SECOPS
The e-learning was part of the Cisco scholarship, so i had all materials required to learn what was required for each exam. The SECOPS exam it was a bit more difficult due his nature of different language.
210-250 SECFND
This exam understand common security concepts, and start to learn the basic security techniques used in a Security Operations Center (SOC) to find threats on a network using a variety of popular security tools within a “real-life” network infrastructure.
Course Objectives
Upon completing this course, students will be able to:
- Describe, compare and identify various network concepts
- Fundamentals of TCP/IP
- Describe and compare fundamental security concepts
- Describe network applications and the security challenges
- Understand basic cryptography principles
- Understand endpoint attacks, including interpreting log data to identify events in Windows and Linux
- Develop knowledge in security monitoring, including identifying sources and types of data and events
- 210-250 SECFND
210-255 SECOPS
This exam focuses on the introductory-level skills needed for a SOC Analyst at the associate level. Specifically, understanding basic threat analysis, event correlation, identifying malicious activity, and how to use a playbook for incident response.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you will have the skills and knowledge to:
- Define a SOC and the various job roles in a SOC
- Understand SOC infrastructure tools and systems
- Learn basic incident analysis for a threat-centric SOC
- Explore resources available to assist with an investigation
- Explain basic event correlation and normalization
- Describe common attack vectors
- Learn how to identify malicious activity
- Understand the concept of a playbook
- Describe and explain an incident respond handbook
- Define types of SOC metrics
- Understand SOC workflow Management system and automation
Congrats!