Course Overview

The CertNexus Cybersec First Responder (CFR-410) exam preparation course from Cybrary will help you to pass this updated exam and succeed in an incident response role.

You will learn all the updated topics as highlighted by NIST (identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover). The overall scope of learning for this course is tailored towards IT professionals attempting to enhance their abilities in networking, operating systems, application security, and cloud environments.

Gain the knowledge and skills to properly respond to a cybersecurity event. Learn to understand the threat landscape, identify zero-day exploits, implement security best practices, continuously monitor detections and anomalies, manage logs, analyze and disseminate reports, and perform appropriate mitigation/remediation actions.

Prerequisites and Target Audience

• The target audience for this course is intermediate level security or IT professionals. (2-5 years experience in a SOC or CERT). At a minimum, you should able to understand or implement the following:
• Understand the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
• Identify compliance frameworks and standards
• Familiar with cybersecurity threat landscape
• Evaluate a security posture
• Conduct vulnerability assessments and act on results
• Analysis of network assets and attack through logs
• Applying security policies and procedures
• Communication within an organizational structure.

What Will I Learn?

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Effectively identify, detect, protect, respond, and recover from malicious activities involving computing systems.
• Gain the foundational knowledge to deal with a changing threat landscape
• Assess risk and vulnerabilities, acquire data, perform analysis, continuously communicate, determine scope, recommend remediation actions, and accurately report results.