comptia cybersecurity analyst (cysa+) certification

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Upon completion of the CompTIA CySA+ Course, you will demonstrate competence and learn to master:

1. Explain the importance of system and network architecture concepts in security operations
2. Given a scenario, analyze indicators of potentially malicious activity.
3. Given a scenario, use appropriate tools or techniques to determine malicious activity.
4. Compare and contrast threat-intelligence and threat-hunting concepts.
5. Explain the importance of efficiency and process improvement in security operations.
6. Given a scenario, implement vulnerability scanning methods and concepts.
7. Given a scenario, analyze output from vulnerability assessment tools.
8. Given a scenario, analyze data to prioritize vulnerabilities.
9. Given a scenario, recommend controls to mitigate attacks and software vulnerabilities.
10. Explain concepts related to vulnerability response, handling, and management.
11. Explain concepts related to attack methodology frameworks.
12. Given a scenario, perform incident response activities.
13. Explain the preparation and post-incident activity phases of the incident management life cycle.
14. Explain the importance of vulnerability management reporting and communication.
15. Explain the importance of incident response reporting and communication.

CompTIA CySA+ Course Outline:

Note: As this is an emerging technology course, the outline will be updated as needed

• Understanding Vulnerability Response, Handling, and Management
• Exploring Threat Intelligence and Threat Hunting Concepts
• Explaining Important System and Network Architecture Concepts
• Understanding Process Improvement in Security Operations
• Implementing Vulnerability Scanning Methods
• Performing Vulnerability Analysis
• Communicating Vulnerability Information
• Explaining Incident Response Activities
• Demonstrating Incident Response Communication
• Applying Tools to Identify Malicious Activity
• Analyzing Potentially Malicious Activity
• Understanding Application Vulnerability Assessment
• Exploring Scripting Tools and Analysis Concepts
• Understanding Application Security and Attack Mitigation Best Practices

CompTIA CySA+ CS0-003 Hands-on Labs:

1. Exploring the Lab Environment
2. Configuring Controls
3. Reviewing IoC and Threat Intelligence Sources
4. Performing Threat Hunting
5. Configuring Centralized Logging
6. Performing System Hardening
7. Assess Time Synch Errors
8. Configuring Automation
9. Performing Asset Discovery
10. Performing Vulnerability Scanning
11. Performing Passive Scanning
12. Establishing Context Awareness
13. Analyzing Vulnerability Reports
14. Detecting Legacy Systems
15. Performing Post-Incident Forensic Analysis
16. Performing IoC Detection and Analysis
17. Performing Playbook Incident Response
18. Collecting Forensic Evidence
19. Performing Root Cause Analysis
20. Using Network Sniffers
21. Researching DNS and IP Reputation
22. Using File Analysis Techniques
23. Analyzing Potentially Malicious Files
24. Using Nontraditional Vulnerability Scanning Tools
25. Performing Web Vulnerability Scanning
26. Exploiting Weak Cryptography
27. Performing and Detecting Directory Traversal and Command Injection
28. Performing and Detecting Privilege Escalation
29. Performing and Detecting XSS
30. Performing and Detecting LFI/RFI
31. Performing and Detecting SQLi
32. Performing and Detecting CSRF
33. Detecting and Exploiting Security Misconfiguration