Explain common threats against on-premises, hybrid, and cloud environments

On-premises: viruses, trojans, DoS/DDoS attacks, phishing, rootkits, man-in-the-

middle attacks, SQL injection, cross-site scripting, malware

Cloud: data breaches, insecure APIs, DoS/DDoS, compromised credentials

Compare common security vulnerabilities such as software bugs, weak and/or

hardcoded passwords, OWASP top ten, missing encryption ciphers, buffer overflow,

path traversal, cross-site scripting/forgery

Describe functions of the cryptography components such as hashing, encryption, PKI,

SSL, IPsec, NAT-T IPv4 for IPsec, preshared key, and certificate-based authorization

Compare site-to-site and remote access VPN deployment types and components such as

virtual tunnel interfaces, standards-based IPsec, DMVPN, FlexVPN, and Cisco Secure

Client including high availability considerations

Describe security intelligence authoring, sharing, and consumption

Describe the controls used to protect against phishing and social engineering attacks

Explain North Bound and South Bound APIs in the SDN architecture

Explain Cisco DNA Center APIs for network provisioning, optimization, monitoring, and

troubleshooting

Interpret basic Python scripts used to call Cisco Security appliances API

Compare network security solutions that provide intrusion prevention and firewall

capabilities

Describe deployment models of network security solutions and architectures that

provide intrusion prevention and firewall capabilities

Describe the components, capabilities, and benefits of NetFlow and Flexible NetFlow

records

Configure and verify network infrastructure security methods

Layer 2 methods (network segmentation using VLANs; Layer 2 and port security;

DHCP snooping; Dynamic ARP inspection; storm control; PVLANs to segregate

network traffic; and defenses against MAC, ARP, VLAN hopping, STP, and DHCP

rogue attacks)

Device hardening of network infrastructure security devices (control plane, data

plane, and management plane)

Implement segmentation, access control policies, AVC, URL filtering, malware

protection, and intrusion policies

Implement management options for network security solutions (single vs. multidevice

manager, in-band vs. out-of-band, cloud vs. on-premises)

Configure AAA for device and network access such as TACACS+ and RADIUS

Configure secure network management of perimeter security and infrastructure devices

such as SNMPv3, NetConf, RestConf, APIs, secure syslog, and NTP with authentication

Configure and verify site-to-site and remote access VPN

Site-to-site VPN using Cisco routers and IOS

Remote access VPN using Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility client

Debug commands to view IPsec tunnel establishment and troubleshooting

Identify security solutions for cloud environments

Public, private, hybrid, and community clouds

Cloud service models: SaaS, PaaS, IaaS (NIST 800-145)

Compare security responsibility for the different cloud service models

Patch management in the cloud

Security assessment in the cloud

Describe the concept of DevSecOps (CI/CD pipeline, container orchestration, and secure

software development)

Implement application and data security in cloud environments

Identify security capabilities, deployment models, and policy management to secure the

cloud

Configure cloud logging and monitoring methodologies

Describe application and workload security concepts

Implement traffic redirection and capture methods for web proxy

Describe web proxy identity and authentication including transparent user identification

Compare the components, capabilities, and benefits of on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-

based email and web solutions (Cisco Secure Email Gateway, Cisco Secure Email Cloud

Gateway, and Cisco Secure Web Appliance)

Configure and verify web and email security deployment methods to protect on-

premises, hybrid, and remote users

Configure and verify email security features such as SPAM filtering, antimalware

filtering, DLP, blocklisting, and email encryption

Configure and verify Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway and web security features

such as blocklisting, URL filtering, malware scanning, URL categorization, web

application filtering, and TLS decryption

Describe the components, capabilities, and benefits of Cisco Umbrella

Configure and verify web security controls on Cisco Umbrella (identities, URL content

settings, destination lists, and reporting)

Compare Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) and Endpoint Detection & Response

(EDR) solutions

Configure endpoint antimalware protection using Cisco Secure Endpoint

Configure and verify outbreak control and quarantines to limit infection

Describe justifications for endpoint-based security

Describe the value of endpoint device management and asset inventory systems such as

MDM

Describe the uses and importance of a multifactor authentication (MFA) strategy

Describe endpoint posture assessment solutions to ensure endpoint security

Explain the importance of an endpoint patching strategy

Describe identity management and secure network access concepts such as guest

services, profiling, posture assessment and BYOD

Configure and verify network access control mechanisms such as 802.1X, MAB,

WebAuth

Describe network access with CoA

Describe the benefits of device compliance and application control

Explain exfiltration techniques (DNS tunneling, HTTPS, email, FTP/SSH/SCP/SFTP, ICMP,

Messenger, IRC, NTP)

Describe the benefits of network telemetry

Describe the components, capabilities, and benefits of these security products and

solutions

Cisco Secure Network Analytics

Cisco Secure Cloud Analytics

Cisco pxGrid

Cisco Umbrella Investigate

Cisco Cognitive Intelligence

Cisco Encrypted Traffic Analytics

Cisco Secure Client Network Visibility Module (NVM)