Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 Certification Guide

Learn blue teaming strategies and incident response techniques to mitigate cybersecurity incidents

Glen D. Singh

BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate 200-201 Certification Guide

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Contributors

About the author

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity instructor and an InfoSec author. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics, and enterprise networking. He is a holder of many certifications, including CEH, CHFI, PAWSP, and 3xCCNA (in CyberOps, Security, and Routing and Switching).

Glen loves teaching and mentoring others, and sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books that focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response (IR), implementing security solutions, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game-changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.

I would like to thank Rahul Nair, Ronn Kurien, Suzanne Coutinho, Vivek Anantharaman, Romy Dias, Neil D'mello, and the wonderful team at Packt Publishing, who have provided amazing support and guidance throughout this journey. To the technical reviewers, Jessie J. Araneta and Kyle Reidell, thank you for your outstanding contribution to make this an amazing book.

About the reviewers

Kyle Reidell has world-class experience leading, developing, and architecting cybersecurity and engineering solutions for numerous government agencies, as well as Fortune 500 companies and cutting-edge technology startups. His background is truly multi-disciplinary; from developing and defending global operations centers to securing communications for the highest levels of government and designing cloud-native architectures while continuing to serve as a cyber officer in the Air National Guard.

Mr. Reidell is a Marine Corps veteran who is actively engaged as a mentor for aspiring youth and cybersecurity professionals. He holds multiple degrees and industry certifications, including a master's degree in information security.

I would like to thank my family, especially my wife and son, for the continuous support they have provided throughout my career and endeavors; I could not have done any of this without them!

Jessie James Solomon Araneta holds a degree in electronics engineering and has certifications from Cisco and Microsoft. He has experience in telecommunications (mobile and fixed network). He is currently working as a network support engineer on Etisalat's Managed Service Solutions for SMB networks.

I would like to thank God first, for His almighty guidance on whatever decisions I made. To the team at Packt and to the author, Glen – thank you for the opportunity of letting me contribute to this amazing book.