Chapter 11

Analyzing Data as Part of Security Monitoring Activities

This chapter covers the following topics related to Objective 3.1 (Given a scenario, analyze data as part of security monitoring activities) of the CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst (CySA+) CS0-002 certification exam:

  • Heuristics: Discusses how the heuristics process works.

  • Trend analysis: Covers the use of trend data.

  • Endpoint: Topics include malware, memory, system and application behavior, file system, and user and entity behavior analytics (UEBA).

  • Network: Covers URL and DNS analysis, flow analysis, and packet and protocol analysis.

  • Log review: Includes event logs, Syslog, firewall logs, web application firewall (WAF), proxy, and intrusion detection system (IDS)/intrusion prevention ...

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