Final Exam: Incident Response Leader

Final Exam: Incident Response Leader

• Define patch management for incident response. Describe the concept of patch management and how it affects the incident response team and the Security Operations Center (SOC)
• Demonstrate challenges organizations face today in monitoring systems configurations and how they can be overcome
• Demonstrate examples of internal and external incidents and breaches and how conformance in each example applies to a DevOps environment
• Demonstrate how to assess the monitoring process and how to perform a security configuration evaluation
• Demonstrate how to prioritize and rate the importance of patches for the software development environment.
• Demonstrate situations where an incident occurs for the need of legal communication or when Internal communication is necessary when handling incidents
• Demonstrate the actions taken when a incident occurs with regards to regulation conformance
• Demonstrate the methods in monitoring releases and deliveries throughout the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Demonstrate the open source and Commercially available tools that are used for patch management
• Demonstrate the process of minor, major, and unknown configuration changes. What it means to an organization with unknown or minor changes for incident response and how its prioritized in an incident strategy
• Demonstrate the relation of patch management in an Agile environment
• Demonstrate the techniques used to identify and calculate risk with regards to a conformance program
• Demonstrate tips and tricks to keep up to date with rapidly changing laws and how to keep staff informed as change is implemented
• Describe briefly the Configuration Management process and how it can possess an influence in securing systems configuration for incident response
• Describe continuous monitoring in risk management including the three tier approach and how it relates to monitoring systems configuration
• describe different incidence response scenarios and how an organization should respond with their incident response team
• describe elements of an incident response policy and how it governs an incident response team
• describe governance policy, roles and responsibilities, and them purpose of incident response planning
• describe how an incident response plan is created and what to include in it, including planning scenarios and recovery objectives
• describe how incident response is managed across various enterprise organizations, providing examples of cases where incident response policies are managed
• describe how indicators of compromise can help reduce exploits in an environment
• describe policies and procedures for keeping systems secure in preemptive troubleshooting
• describe preemptive troubleshooting and how it applies to security and SecOps
• Describe regulation conformance and its importance in an organization and incident response
• Describe testing, and configuration management in patch management
• Describe the benefits of a patch management strategy and why its important
• describe the concept of a Computer Security Incident Response Team, what a team is compromised of, models and their purpose, and the benefits of outsourcing and having a CSIRT internally
• Describe the concept of patching for serverless systems and benefits of patching strategies using serverless systems
• Describe the importance of using external experts to assist with your conformance program
• describe the incident phases that an incident policy must address and the six stages in an incident response policy
• Describe the process in implementing a secure systems configurations monitoring program
• Describe the Process of Baselining, hardening, and how to develop a backout plan
• Describe the process of rolling out patches in a patch management program and the polices for patch updates
• Describe the security controls for monitoring systems configurations in the cyber framework
• describe the security risks and best practices for transitioning to the cloud
• Describe the steps to creating the appropriate conformance program for an organization
• describe the tools available in incident response strategies including the three As in incident response and the OODA Loop
• Describe the various cybersecurity frameworks and which regulations relate to an organization
• Describe the various tools and software available to monitor systems and their advantages for incident response
• describe the Zero Trust Architecture and how to apply to the Zero Trust Model
• discuss the elements of an incident response policy
• identify how a security operations center can be a vital asset to an organization
• identify the different purposes of the different roles on a CSIRT
• identify the purpose of an incident response plan and the costs of not having one in place
• list the steps to create incident response policies, plans, and procedures
• recognize best security practices for the Internet of Things
• recognize concerns of moving to the security first mindset and de-perimeterization problems
• recognize how preemptive troubleshooting is different than intrusion detection systems
• recognize the best security places for network devices such as Next-Generation Firewalls, Network Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems, and Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
• recognize the impact of software-defined networking, virtual networking, and micro-segmentation to network security
• recognize the importance of securing network appliances and the top network security risks
• recognize traditional infrastructure deficiencies, such as perimeter exploitation and de-perimeterization as a result of moving to the cloud
• recognize various security architecture models such as the Zero Trust Model, the intrusion kill chain, and the diamond model of intrusion analysis
• recognize what roles to assign to each member of an incident response team and describe how team members would be engaged in various scenarios
• recognize when to create a CSIRT and who should be on that team
• recognize Zero Trust challenges, problems, and concerns
• update hardware and recognize the importance of doing so
• update software and recognize the importance of doing so
• use password policies to enforce compliance
• use tools to troubleshoot hardware and policies to prevent security compromise

Final Exam: Incident Response Leader will test your knowledge and application of the topics presented throughout the Incident Response Leader track of the Skillsoft Aspire Penetration Tester to SecOps Engineer Journey.

Policy & Governance: Incident Response

Policy & Governance: Incident Response

• discover the key concepts covered in this course
• describe elements of an incident response policy and how it governs an incident response team
• describe the incident phases that an incident policy must address and the six stages in an incident response policy
• describe the tools available in incident response strategies including the three As in incident response and the OODA Loop
• describe how incident response is managed across various enterprise organizations, providing examples of cases where incident response policies are managed
• describe how an incident response plan is created and what to include in it, including planning scenarios and recovery objectives
• describe the concept of a Computer Security Incident Response Team, what a team is compromised of, models and their purpose, and the benefits of outsourcing and having a CSIRT internally
• recognize what roles to assign to each member of an incident response team and describe how team members would be engaged in various scenarios
• describe different incidence response scenarios and how an organization should respond with their incident response team
• describe governance policy, roles and responsibilities, and them purpose of incident response planning
• describe ISO 27001 and other various compliance standards, as well as how they are applied in incident response
• use governance policies to effectively create policies in incident response
• describe best practices and scenarios for establishing an incident response governance policy for several business and information sectors
• summarize the key concepts covered in this course

Discover the importance of an incident response plan, including how to draft the plan and engage in incident response. Explore different scenarios and what roles are needed to manage an incident response team. Examine the notion of the Computer Security Incident Response Team and how the team effectively responds to incidents. How incident response policies can provide IT governance and compliance in today's cyber world and best practices for staying compliant with ISO and other compliance standards is also covered.