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 Duration 28 hours

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DOMAIN 1: CYBERSECURITY CONCEPTS

  • 1.1 Knowledge of information assurance (IA) principles used to manage risks related to the use, processing, storage and transmission of information or data for government operations and data integrity.
  • 1.2 Knowledge of security management frameworks.
  • 1.3 Knowledge of risk management processes, including established steps and methods for assessing risk.
  • 1.4 Knowledge of the organization's enterprise information technology (IT) goals and objectives.
  • 1.5 Knowledge of different operational threat environments, such as first generation (script kiddies), second generation (non-nation state sponsored), and third generation (nation state sponsored) adversaries.
  • 1.6 Knowledge of information assurance (IA) principles and organizational requirements relevant to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
  • 1.7 Knowledge of common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within the assigned area of responsibility, including historical country-specific TTPs and emerging capabilities.
  • 1.8 Knowledge of different classes of attacks, including passive, active, insider, close-in, and distribution attacks.
  • 1.9 Knowledge of relevant laws, policies, procedures, and governance requirements.
  • 1.10 Knowledge of relevant laws, policies, procedures, or governance requirements as they relate to work that may impact critical infrastructure.

DOMAIN 2: CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES

  • 2.1 Knowledge of network design processes, including an understanding of security objectives, operational objectives, and associated tradeoffs.
  • 2.2 Knowledge of security system design methods, tools, and techniques.
  • 2.3 Knowledge of network access, identity, and access management, such as public key infrastructure (PKI).
  • 2.4 Knowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods, including firewalls, demilitarized zones, and encryption.
  • 2.5 Knowledge of current industry methods for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating information technology (IT) security assessment, monitoring, detection, and remediation tools and procedures, utilizing standards-based concepts and capabilities.
  • 2.6 Knowledge of network security architecture concepts, including topology, protocols, components, and principles, such as the application of defense in depth.
  • 2.7 Knowledge of malware analysis concepts and methodology.
  • 2.8 Knowledge of intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for detecting host- and network-based intrusions via intrusion detection technologies.
  • 2.9 Knowledge of defense in depth principles and 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 Knowledge of cryptology.
  • 2.12 Knowledge of encryption methodologies.
  • 2.13 Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network, such as through Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and the Open Systems 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 Knowledge of computer network defense (CND) and vulnerability assessment tools, including open source tools, and their capabilities.
  • 3.2 Knowledge of basic system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
  • 3.3 Knowledge of risks associated with virtualization.
  • 3.4 Knowledge of penetration testing principles, tools, and techniques, such as Metasploit and NeoSploit.
  • 3.5 Knowledge of network systems management principles, models, methods (such as end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
  • 3.6 Knowledge of remote access technology concepts.
  • 3.7 Knowledge of systems administration concepts.
  • 3.8 Knowledge of the Unix command line.
  • 3.9 Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities.
  • 3.10 Knowledge of system lifecycle management principles, including software security and usability.
  • 3.11 Knowledge of local specialized system requirements (such as critical infrastructure systems that may not use standard information technology [IT]) for safety, performance, and reliability.
  • 3.12 Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities, such as buffer overflows, 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 Knowledge of the social dynamics of computer attackers in a global context.
  • 3.14 Knowledge of secure configuration management techniques.
  • 3.15 Knowledge of the capabilities and applications of network equipment, including hubs, routers, switches, bridges, servers, transmission media, and related hardware.
  • 3.16 Knowledge of communication methods, principles, and concepts that support the network infrastructure.
  • 3.17 Knowledge of common networking protocols (such as Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol [TCP/IP]) and services (such as web, mail, and Domain Name System [DNS]) and how they interact to provide network communications.
  • 3.18 Knowledge 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 Knowledge of virtualization technologies and virtual machine development and maintenance.
  • 3.20 Knowledge of application vulnerabilities.
  • 3.21 Knowledge of information assurance (IA) principles and methods that apply to software development.
  • 3.22 Knowledge of risk and threat assessment.

DOMAIN 4: INCIDENT RESPONSE

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

DOMAIN 5: SECURITY OF EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY

  • 5.1 Knowledge of new and emerging information technology (IT) and information security technologies.
  • 5.2 Knowledge of emerging security issues, risks, and vulnerabilities.
  • 5.3 Knowledge of risks associated with mobile computing.
  • 5.4 Knowledge of cloud concepts regarding data and collaboration.
  • 5.5 Knowledge of the risks of moving applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
  • 5.6 Knowledge of risks associated with outsourcing.
  • 5.7 Knowledge of supply chain risk management processes and practices.

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