Cybersecurity Fundamentals Training Course

DOMAIN 1: CYBERSECURITY CONCEPTS

• 1.1 Understanding of information assurance (IA) principles utilized to manage risks associated with the use, processing, storage, and transmission of information or data.
• 1.2 Familiarity with security management practices.
• 1.3 Proficiency in risk management processes, including the steps and methods for assessing risk.
• 1.4 Awareness of the organization’s enterprise information technology (IT) goals and objectives.
• 1.5 Insight into various operational threat environments, ranging from first-generation actors (script kiddies) to second-generation (non-nation state sponsored) and third-generation (nation state sponsored) threats.
• 1.6 Application of information assurance (IA) principles and organizational requirements relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
• 1.7 Recognition of common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within assigned areas of responsibility, such as historical country-specific TTPs and emerging capabilities.
• 1.8 Identification of different classes of attacks, including passive, active, insider, close-in, and distribution-based attacks.
• 1.9 Compliance with relevant laws, policies, procedures, and governance requirements.
• 1.10 Understanding of legal, policy, and governance frameworks related to work that may impact critical infrastructure.

DOMAIN 2: CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES

• 2.1 Insight into network design processes, encompassing an understanding of security objectives, operational goals, and associated trade-offs.
• 2.2 Mastery of security system design methods, tools, and techniques.
• 2.3 Knowledge of network access and identity and access management systems, such as public key infrastructure (PKI).
• 2.4 Application of information technology (IT) security principles and methods, including firewalls, demilitarized zones, and encryption.
• 2.5 Utilization of current industry standards for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating IT security assessment, monitoring, detection, and remediation tools and procedures.
• 2.6 Understanding of network security architecture concepts, including topology, protocols, components, and principles, such as the application of defence in depth.
• 2.7 Familiarity with malware analysis concepts and methodologies.
• 2.8 Application of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for identifying host-based and network-based intrusions using dedicated technologies.
• 2.9 Integration of defence in depth principles with network security architecture.
• 2.10 Knowledge of encryption algorithms, such as Internet Protocol Security (IPSEC), Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), and Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE).
• 2.11 Understanding of cryptology.
• 2.12 Familiarity with encryption methodologies.
• 2.13 Insight into traffic flows across the network, including Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and the Open System Interconnection model (OSI).
• 2.14 Knowledge of network protocols, such as Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol.

DOMAIN 3: SECURITY OF NETWORK, SYSTEM, APPLICATION AND DATA

• 3.1 Proficiency with computer network defence (CND) and vulnerability assessment tools, including open-source options, and their respective capabilities.
• 3.2 Basic system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
• 3.3 Understanding of the risks associated with virtualization.
• 3.4 Application of penetration testing principles, tools, and techniques, such as metasploit and neosploit.
• 3.5 Knowledge of network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
• 3.6 Understanding of remote access technology concepts.
• 3.7 Familiarity with systems administration concepts.
• 3.8 Proficiency in Unix command line operations.
• 3.9 Identification of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities.
• 3.10 Application of system lifecycle management principles, encompassing software security and usability.
• 3.11 Understanding of local specialized system requirements, such as critical infrastructure systems that may not utilize standard information technology (IT), for safety, performance, and reliability.
• 3.12 Recognition of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities, including buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language (PL/SQL) and injections, race conditions, covert channels, replay attacks, return-oriented attacks, and malicious code.
• 3.13 Insight into the social dynamics of computer attackers in a global context.
• 3.14 Application of secure configuration management techniques.
• 3.15 Understanding of the capabilities and applications of network equipment, including hubs, routers, switches, bridges, servers, transmission media, and related hardware.
• 3.16 Familiarity with communication methods, principles, and concepts that support network infrastructure.
• 3.17 Knowledge of common networking protocols (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol [TCP/IP]) and services (e.g., web, mail, Domain Name System [DNS]) and their interaction in providing network communications.
• 3.18 Understanding of different types of network communication, such as Local Area Network [LAN], Wide Area Network [WAN], Metropolitan Area Network [MAN], Wireless Local Area Network [WLAN], and Wireless Wide Area Network [WWAN].
• 3.19 Familiarity with virtualization technologies and the development and maintenance of virtual machines.
• 3.20 Identification of application vulnerabilities.
• 3.21 Application of information assurance (IA) principles and methods to software development.
• 3.22 Understanding of risk threat assessment.

DOMAIN 4: INCIDENT RESPONSE

• 4.1 Understanding of incident categories, response procedures, and timelines.
• 4.2 Familiarity with disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans.
• 4.3 Knowledge of data backup strategies, types of backups (e.g., full, incremental), and recovery concepts and tools.
• 4.4 Application of incident response and handling methodologies.
• 4.5 Utilization of security event correlation tools.
• 4.6 Insight into the investigative implications of hardware, operating systems, and network technologies.
• 4.7 Understanding of processes for seizing and preserving digital evidence, including chain of custody.
• 4.8 Identification of various types of digital forensics data and how to recognize them.
• 4.9 Familiarity with basic concepts and practices for processing digital forensic data.
• 4.10 Understanding of anti-forensics tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
• 4.11 Proficiency with common forensic tool configuration and support applications, such as VMWare and Wireshark.
• 4.12 Application of network traffic analysis methods.
• 4.13 Identification of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and their locations.

DOMAIN 5: SECURITY OF EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY

• 5.1 Understanding of new and emerging information technology (IT) and information security technologies.
• 5.2 Identification of emerging security issues, risks, and vulnerabilities.
• 5.3 Assessment of risks associated with mobile computing.
• 5.4 Understanding of cloud concepts related to data and collaboration.
• 5.5 Evaluation of risks involved in migrating applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
• 5.6 Assessment of risks associated with outsourcing.
• 5.7 Understanding of supply chain risk management processes and practices.