31 Days Before your Cisco Certified Support Technician (CCST) Networking 100-150 Exam: A Day-By-Day Review Guide for the CCST-Networking Certification Exam

Day 4

Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Attacks

CCST Networking 100-150 Exam Topic

• 6.2. Describe foundational security concepts.

  • Confidentiality, integrity, and availability (CIA); authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA); multifactor authentication (MFA); encryption, certificates, and password complexity; identity stores/databases (Active Directory); threats and vulnerabilities; spam, phishing, malware, and denial of service

Key Topics

We will spend the next two days reviewing foundational security concepts. Today, we review how cyber criminals target critical infrastructure and systems using various types of network attacks, including data exfiltration, penetration testing tool misuse, and different forms of malware. Tomorrow, ...