CBROPS

• Training: get practical technical skills
• Receive a certificate of course attendance
• Small class size: increased instructor interaction
• Authorised test centre: exams taken at our premises
• Expert trainers: imparting real world experience

CBROPS course material

• Explain how a Security Operations Center (SOC) operates and describe the different types of services that are performed from a Tier 1 SOC analyst’s perspective.
• Explain Network Security Monitoring (NSM) tools that are available to the network security analyst.
• Explain the data that is available to the network security analyst.
• Describe the basic concepts and uses of cryptography.
• Describe security flaws in the TCP/IP protocol and how they can be used to attack networks and hosts.
• Understand common endpoint security technologies.
• Understand the kill chain and the diamond models for incident investigations, and the use of exploit kits by threat actors.
• Identify resources for hunting cyber threats.
• Explain the need for event data normalization and event correlation.
• Identify the common attack vectors.
• Identify malicious activities.
• Identify patterns of suspicious behaviors.
• Conduct security incident investigations.
• Explain the use of a typical playbook in the SOC.
• Explain the use of SOC metrics to measure the effectiveness of the SOC.
• Explain the use of a workflow management system and automation to improve the effectiveness of the SOC.
• Describe a typical incident response plan and the functions of a typical Computer Security Incident Response Team (CSIRT).
• Explain the use of Vocabulary for Event Recording and Incident Sharing (VERIS) to document security incidents in a standard format.

This course is likely to add to the employment related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.

• IT Security Engineer
• IT Security Consultant
• Security Systems Administrator
• Security Architect
• Cryptographer
• Information Security Analyst
• Penetration Tester
• Candidates preparing for the CyberOps certification

• Create structured addressing plans for IPv4 and IPv6
• Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for IS-IS
• Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for EIGRP
• Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for OSPF
• Create stable, secure, and scalable routing designs for BGP
• Determine IPv6 migration strategies
• Design campus networks for high availability
• Design campus Layer 2 infrastructures
• Design multicampus Layer 3 infrastructures
• Describe SD-Access Architecture (underlay, overlay, control and data plane, automation, wireless, and security)
• Describe SD-Access fabric design considerations for wired and wireless access (overlay, fabric design, control plan design, border design, segmentation, virtual networks, scalability, over the top and fabric for wireless, multicast)
• Compare WAN connectivity options
• Design site-to-site VPN
• Design high availability for enterprise WAN
• Describe Cisco SD-WAN Architecture (orchestration plane, management plane, control plane, data plane, on-boarding and provisioning, security)
• Describe Cisco SD-WAN design considerations (control plane design, overlay design, LAN design, high availability, redundancy, scalability, security design, QoS and multicast over SD-WAN fabric)
• Select appropriate QoS strategies to meet customer requirements (DiffServ, IntServ)
• Design end-to-end QoS policies
• Design network management techniques
• Describe multicast routing concepts (source trees, shared trees, RPF, rendezvous points)
• Design multicast services (SSM, PIM bidirectional, MSDP)
• Choose the correct YANG data model set based on requirements
• Differentiate between IETF, Openconfig, and Cisco native YANG models
• Differentiate between NETCONF and RESTCONF
• Describe the impact of model-driven telemetry on the network
• Compare dial-in and dial-out approaches to model-driven telemetry