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 data.
• 1.2 Comprehension of security management practices.
• 1.3 Awareness of risk management processes, including the steps and methods for assessing risk.
• 1.4 Familiarity with the organization’s enterprise information technology (IT) goals and objectives.
• 1.5 Knowledge of distinct operational threat environments, such as first-generation [script kiddies], second-generation [non-nation state sponsored], and third-generation [nation state sponsored] threats.
• 1.6 Understanding of information assurance (IA) principles and organizational requirements pertaining to confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
• 1.7 Awareness 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 various attack classifications, such as passive, active, insider, close-in, and distribution attacks.
• 1.9 Understanding of applicable laws, policies, procedures, and governance requirements.
• 1.10 Awareness of relevant laws, policies, procedures, and governance standards related to work impacting critical infrastructure.

DOMAIN 2: CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES

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

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

• 3.1 Understanding of computer network defence (CND) and vulnerability assessment tools, including open-source options, and their respective capabilities.
• 3.2 Knowledge of basic system administration, network, and operating system hardening techniques.
• 3.3 Awareness of risks associated with virtualization.
• 3.4 Understanding 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 performance monitoring), and tools.
• 3.6 Familiarity with remote access technology concepts.
• 3.7 Understanding of systems administration concepts.
• 3.8 Proficiency with the Unix command line.
• 3.9 Knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities.
• 3.10 Understanding of system lifecycle management principles, including software security and usability.
• 3.11 Awareness of local specialized system requirements, such as those for critical infrastructure systems that may not use standard IT, for safety, performance, and reliability.
• 3.12 Detailed knowledge of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities, including 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 their interaction to provide network communications.
• 3.18 Familiarity with different types of network communication, including 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 Understanding of application vulnerabilities.
• 3.21 Familiarity with information assurance (IA) principles and methods applicable to software development.
• 3.22 Knowledge of risk threat assessment.

DOMAIN 4: INCIDENT RESPONSE

• 4.1 Understanding of incident categories, response protocols, and response timelines.
• 4.2 Knowledge of disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans.
• 4.3 Familiarity with data backup, types of backups (e.g., full, incremental), 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, such as maintaining the chain of custody.
• 4.8 Knowledge of types of digital forensics data and how to identify 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, such as VMWare and Wireshark.
• 4.12 Understanding of network traffic analysis methods.
• 4.13 Knowledge of which system files (e.g., log files, registry files, configuration files) contain relevant information and where 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 Knowledge of risks associated with mobile computing.
• 5.4 Familiarity with cloud concepts related to data and collaboration.
• 5.5 Understanding of risks involved in 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.