Название: CCST Cisco Certified Support Technician Study Guide: Cybersecurity Exam
Автор: Todd Lammle, Jon Buhagiar, Donald Robb, Todd Montgomery
Издательство: Sybex
Год: 2025
Страниц: 496
Язык: английский
Формат: epub (true)
Размер: 19.6 MB

The ideal prep guide for earning your CCST Cybersecurity certification.

CCST Cisco Certified Support Technician Study Guide: Cybersecurity Exam is the perfect way to study for your certification as you prepare to start or upskill your IT career. Written by industry expert and Cisco guru Todd Lammle, this Sybex Study Guide uses the trusted Sybex approach, providing 100% coverage of CCST Cybersecurity exam objectives. You'll find detailed information and examples for must-know Cisco cybersecurity topics, as well as practical insights drawn from real-world scenarios.

This study guide provides authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including essential security principles, basic network security concepts, endpoint security concepts, vulnerability assessment and risk management, and incident handling. You also get one year of FREE access to a robust set of online learning tools, including a test bank with hundreds of questions, a practice exam, a set of flashcards, and a glossary of important terminology. The CCST Cybersecurity certification is an entry point into the Cisco certification program, and a pathway to the higher-level CyberOps. It's a great place to start as you build a rewarding IT career!

Study 100% of the topics covered on the Cisco CCST Cybersecurity certification exam
Get access to flashcards, practice questions, and more great resources online
Master difficult concepts with real-world examples and clear explanations
Learn about the career paths you can follow and what comes next after the CCST

This Sybex study guide is perfect for anyone wanting to earn their CCST Cybersecurity certification, including entry-level cybersecurity technicians, IT students, interns, and IT professionals.

Who Should Read This Book?
You—if want to pass the CCST Cybersecurity exam and pass it confidently! This book is chock-full of the exact information you need and directly maps to CCST Cybersecurity exam objectives, so if you use it to study for the exam, your odds of passing shoot way up.
And in addition to including every bit of knowledge you need to learn to pass the exam, We have included some really great tips and solid wisdom throughout the chapters, to equip you even further to successfully work in the real IT security world.

So, as you move through this book, here’s a snapshot of what you’ll learn chapter by chapter:
Chapter 1: Security Concepts In this chapter you will begin learning basic security concepts. The security concepts include vulnerabilities, threats, exploits, as well as the difference between these concepts. You will then learn about common threats and vulnerabilities, such as malware, ransomware, and other common tactics.
Chapter 2: Network Security Devices This chapter will describe network infrastructure and technologies that support network security, such as virtualization, honeypots, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and many other devices.
Chapter 3: Network Security Concepts Chapter 3 will cover a lot of common network concepts that you would find in the CCST Networking certification. However, the concepts will be explained and highlighted as they pertain to network security.
Chapter 4: Network Device Access This chapter will explain the difference between authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) that is used with Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), as well as multifactor authentication (MFA), and password policies.
Chapter 5: Secure Access Technology This chapter will cover the various technologies that allow you to secure communications over an insecure network, such as access control lists (ACLs), firewalls, Virtual Private Network (VPN) connections, and Network Access Control (NAC). Encryption types and the protocols that use them will also be covered.
Chapter 6: OS Basics and Security This chapter will focus on the various operating systems and their various security features, such as Windows Defender, host-based firewalls, and file and directory permissions. In addition this chapter will cover the importance of software and hardware updates. To round this topic of operating system security, system logs will be covered in entirety.
Chapter 7: Endpoint Security This Chapter will take a deep dive into endpoint security, such as the various built-in tools that can help us collect data. This chapter will also cover the basics of hardware and software inventory, program deployments, data backups, regulatory compliance, and bring your own device (BYOD) strategies.
Chapter 8: Vulnerability Management Chapter 8 will focus on risk management strategies, such as risk ranking, approaching risk management, risk mitigations strategies, risk associated with data types, and the levels of risk. In addition, this chapter will give you a fundamental understanding of how to identify risk and mitigate risk.
Chapter 9: Vulnerability Management This chapter explains the various ways that you can manage vulnerabilities in your organization, such as identification, management, and mitigation. Threat intelligence techniques are also covered that explain how the industry catalogs vulnerabilities, identifies trends, and mitigates vulnerabilities.
Chapter 10: Disaster Recovery This chapter explains disaster recovery for business continuity and recovery. The chapter will cover how disasters might happen, what to do when it happens and the planning around disasters to get your organization operating again.
Chapter 11: Incident Handling This chapter explains how security events are found with the help of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems. The chapter will also explain the importance of security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) systems to help automate and orchestrate a remediation to an event. Common compliance frameworks for incident handling are also explained along with their reporting and notification requirements.
Chapter 12: Digital Forensics This chapter will explain digital forensics and the attack attribution processes. Some of the concepts covered will be Cyber Kill Chain, MITRE ATT&CK Matrix, and tactics, techniques, procedures (TTPS), as well as evidence and the proper handling of evidence.
Chapter 13: Incident Response The last chapter will describe the elements of a cybersecurity incidence response. This chapter will include the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) standard for incident response, and how to implement a policy, plan, and the various procedural elements.