Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals
Overview
The Understanding Cisco Cybersecurity Fundamentals (SECFND) course gives you foundation-level knowledge of common security concepts, basic security techniques, and the fundamentals of applications, operating systems, and networking used in a Security Operations Center (SOC). This course helps you learn to find threats within a real-life network infrastructure using a variety of popular security tools. Through expert instruction and hands-on experience using enterprise-grade security tools, you will learn the basics of network and security concepts, endpoint attacks, cryptography, analysis, and monitoring. This course provides introductory knowledge for those interested in entering the field of cybersecurity and is the first of two courses that prepare you for the Cisco CCNA® Cyber Ops certification. Prerequisites We recommend that you have knowledge of one or more of the following before attending this course:
- Familiarity with basic networking concepts
- Working knowledge of the Windows operating system
- Familiarity with the Linux operating system
Course Content/Exam(s)
| Course Code | Description | Exam Code | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| SECFND V.1.0 | SECFND_1.0_.pdf | 5 Days |
Course Benefits
After taking this course, you should be able to:- Describe network operations and attacks, basic cryptography concepts, and network infrastructure device operations
- Describe basic Windows and Linux OS operations, common network applications and attacks, endpoint attacks, and network and endpoint security solutions
- Describe security data collection and monitoring and the common threat models that security operations organizations can reference when performing cybersecurity analysis