Cybersecurity Fundamentals Training Course

DOMAIN 1: CYBERSECURITY CONCEPTS

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

DOMAIN 2: CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES

• 2.1 Understanding of network design processes, including security objectives, operational objectives, and necessary trade-offs.
• 2.2 Knowledge of security system design methods, tools, and techniques.
• 2.3 Familiarity with network access, identity, and access management concepts (e.g., public key infrastructure [PKI]).
• 2.4 Understanding of information technology (IT) security principles and methods (e.g., firewalls, demilitarized zones, encryption).
• 2.5 Awareness of current industry methods for evaluating, implementing, and disseminating IT security assessment, monitoring, detection, and remediation tools and procedures, leveraging standards-based concepts and capabilities.
• 2.6 Knowledge of network security architecture concepts, including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., the application of defense in depth).
• 2.7 Understanding of malware analysis concepts and methodologies.
• 2.8 Familiarity with intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for identifying host- and network-based intrusions through intrusion detection technologies.
• 2.9 Knowledge of defense in depth principles and network security architecture.
• 2.10 Understanding of encryption algorithms (e.g., Internet Protocol Security [IPSEC], Advanced Encryption Standard [AES], Generic Routing Encapsulation [GRE]).
• 2.11 Knowledge of cryptology.
• 2.12 Familiarity with encryption methodologies.
• 2.13 Understanding of traffic flows across networks (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol [TCP/IP], Open Systems Interconnection model [OSI]).
• 2.14 Knowledge of network protocols (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol).

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

• 3.1 Understanding of computer network defense (CND) and vulnerability assessment tools, including open-source options and their capabilities.
• 3.2 Familiarity with basic system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
• 3.3 Awareness of risks associated with virtualization.
• 3.4 Knowledge of penetration testing principles, tools, and techniques (e.g., Metasploit, Neo4sploit).
• 3.5 Understanding of network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
• 3.6 Familiarity with remote access technology concepts.
• 3.7 Knowledge of systems administration concepts.
• 3.8 Proficiency in using the Unix command line.
• 3.9 Understanding of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities.
• 3.10 Knowledge of system lifecycle management principles, including software security and usability.
• 3.11 Awareness 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 Familiarity with system and application security threats and vulnerabilities (e.g., buffer overflow, mobile code, cross-site scripting, Procedural Language/Structured Query Language [PL/SQL] injections, race conditions, covert channels, replay attacks, return-oriented attacks, and malicious code).
• 3.13 Understanding of the social dynamics of computer attackers in a global context.
• 3.14 Knowledge of secure configuration management techniques.
• 3.15 Awareness of the capabilities and applications of network equipment, including hubs, routers, switches, bridges, servers, transmission media, and related hardware.
• 3.16 Understanding of 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 how they interact to facilitate network communications.
• 3.18 Familiarity with different types of network communication (e.g., 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 Understanding of virtualization technologies and the development and maintenance of virtual machines.
• 3.20 Awareness of application vulnerabilities.
• 3.21 Knowledge of information assurance (IA) principles and methods applicable to software development.
• 3.22 Familiarity with risk threat assessment.

DOMAIN 4: INCIDENT RESPONSE

• 4.1 Understanding of incident categories, response strategies, and timelines for responses.
• 4.2 Knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity plans.
• 4.3 Familiarity with data backup strategies, types of backups (e.g., full, incremental), and recovery concepts and tools.
• 4.4 Understanding of incident response and handling methodologies.
• 4.5 Knowledge of security event correlation tools.
• 4.6 Awareness of the investigative implications of hardware, operating systems, and network technologies.
• 4.7 Understanding of processes for seizing and preserving digital evidence (e.g., maintaining the chain of custody).
• 4.8 Knowledge of types of digital forensics data and methods for recognizing 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 Knowledge of common forensic tool configuration and support applications (e.g., VMware, Wireshark).
• 4.12 Familiarity with network traffic analysis methods.
• 4.13 Understanding of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and how to locate them.

DOMAIN 5: SECURITY OF EVOLVING TECHNOLOGY

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