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You're reading from CCNA Cyber Ops SECOPS - Certification Guide 210-255 Learn the skills to pass the 210-255 certification exam and become a competent SECOPS associate

Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781838559861

Length 352 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Cisco

Concepts

Network Security

Author (1):

Andrew Chu

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Endpoint Threat Analysis and Forensics FREE CHAPTER

2. Classifying Threats

3. Operating System Families

4. Computer Forensics and Evidence Handling

5. Section 2: Intrusion Analysis

6. Identifying Rogue Data from a Dataset

7. Warning Signs from Network Data

8. Network Security Data Analysis

9. Section 3: Incident Response

10. Roles and Responsibilities During an Incident

11. Network and Server Profiling

12. Compliance Frameworks

13. Section 4: Data and Event Analysis

14. Data Normalization and Exploitation

15. Drawing Conclusions from the Data

16. Section 5: Incident Handling

17. The Cyber Kill Chain Model

18. Incident-Handling Activities

19. Section 6: Mock Exams

20. Mock Exam 1

21. Mock Exam 2

22. Assessments

23. Other Books You May Enjoy

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Chapter 2: Operating System Families

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HeapAlloc is used for dynamic allocation. When the application requests memory, the right amount of memory is allocated. (VirtualAlloc is described in question 2.) Swap is a Linux virtual memory system and is described in question 3. CoTaskMemAlloc is used when memory must be shared.
(2)
VirtualAlloc utilizes reserved blocks of memory. This means that it is suitable for specialized usage where the memory required is known at the time of creating the process. HeapAlloc was described in question 1. LocalAlloc is a specialized version of HeapAlloc, which allows memory to be moved via reallocation. Pages are the files that store virtual memory.
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Linux can utilize a swap partition or swap files to provide extra memory on the hard disk drive or SSD to expand the system's physical memory. Swap file/swap partition capacity must...

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Authors (1)

Chu

Andrew Chu is a networking and cybersecurity lecturer at London Metropolitan University (LMU). LMU is a Cisco Academy, Academy Support Center, and Instructor Training Center. He has a postgraduate certificate in computer science education, and teaches CCNA routing and switching, as well as CCNA Cyber Ops, through LMU. A former military engineer, he enjoys testing systems to destruction, and learning from this and sharing the results. He has over 10 years' experience of working in physical and electronic systems security, including advising on and authoring security policies and risk assessments. This includes creating a community-owned ISP; working in government service; and training industry professionals, career changers, and new students.

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