About Education
The ‘Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (SECFND)’ course provides you with a basic understanding of common security concepts, basic security techniques, and the fundamentals of applications, operating systems, and networks used in a Security Operations Centre (SOC). This course helps you learn to find threats in a real network infrastructure using a variety of popular security tools. Through expert instruction and hands-on experience using enterprise-class security tools, you will learn the basics of network and security concepts, endpoint attacks, cryptography, analysis and monitoring. This course is an introduction for those who want to enter the cybersecurity field and is the first of two courses that prepare you for the Cisco CCNA® Cyber Ops certification.
Today's cyber security professionals need to detect, investigate and respond to a wide range of security incidents. This course will help you gain the skills needed to play a role in detecting and responding to security incidents in your organisation's SOC.
Prerequisites
- Basic network knowledge
- Familiarity with basic computer concepts
- Completion of ‘Introduction to Cybersecurity’ or a similar entry-level cyber security course
Duration of Training
- Training with an instructor: 5 days, with practical laboratory work
- Virtual instructor-led training: 5 days, with web-based lessons and hands-on lab work
Who Should Participate?
- IT Professionals
- All students looking to enter mid-level cybersecurity roles such as:
- SOC cybersecurity analysts
- Computer or network defense analysts
- Computer network defense infrastructure support personnel
- Future incident response teams and SOC personnel
- Cisco integrators or partners
Educational Content
- TCP/IP and Cryptography Concepts
- Understanding the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
- Understanding Network Infrastructure
- Understanding Common TCP/IP Attacks
- Understanding Basic Cryptography Concepts
- Network Applications and Endpoint Security
- Explaining Information Security Concepts
- Understanding Network Applications
- Understanding Common Network Application Attacks
- Understanding Windows Operating System Basics
- Understanding Linux Operating System Basics
- Understanding Common Endpoint Attacks
- Understanding Network Security Technologies
- Understanding Endpoint Security Technologies
- Security Monitoring and Analysis
- Explaining Security Data Collection
- Security Incident Analysis Description
What You Will Gain at the End of Training
- Describe network operations and attacks, basic cryptography concepts, and network infrastructure device operations.
- Describe basic Windows and Linux operating system operations, common network applications and attacks, endpoint attacks, and network and endpoint security solutions.
- Explain security data collection and monitoring, and common threat models that security operations organizations can reference when performing cybersecurity analysis.
