NICF Cyber Security Operations Specialist

Course details

Whether you are a cyber security professional, or an IT professional tasked to manage your business’s IT infrastructure, NICF – Cyber Security Operations Specialist centres on equipping you and your team with the right skillsets and competencies to keep an organisation secure – not just in head-based knowledge, but in operational proficiency.
Specifically, NICF CSOC focuses on the cognitive and analytical abilities of participants, in addition to knowledge. NICF CSOS’ emphasis is on equipping participants with cyber defence operational skillsets – that will be ingrained in individuals on a day-to-day basis.

COURSE FOCUS

Real-World, Operations-Centric 

Cyber Defence Training

State-of-the-Art Cyber Training Platform

Emulation of real-world conditions such as network structure, network characteristics, and traffic, with real malware and exploits.

True and accurate reflection of what it would be like to experience the entire kill-chain of cyber-attack(s) in a controlled environment

First in Singapore and the region

COURSE STRUCTURE

Cyber Security Imperatives

Cyber threats, trends, terms and terminologies

CIA, AAA, standards, audit, compliance and regulations

Cryptography and applications

Network Technologies and Security

Introduction to network systems, types and devices

Secure network protocol (SSL/TLS, SSH)

Introduction to network security devices (Firewall, IPS/IDS, SIEM, etc.)

Server Systems and Logs

Types and functions of servers (web, database, mail, AD, etc.)

OS, servers and their event logs (Windows, Linux,IIS, Apache, Mssql, sendmail and etc.)

Attack Methodology and Types

Attack phases

Types of vulnerabilities and attacks

Web-based attack (OWASP top 10)

Security Operations Centre and Incident Response

Different types of information security incident

Information security incident management framework

Overview to SOC concepts and operations

Threat identification, threat correlation, threat aggregation, threat filtering (through applications and server logs)

Incident handling, response management, notification and reporting

Security Products and Hands-On

Checkpoint Firewall, Security Information and Event Management(SIEM)

Monitoring tools such as Wireshark, Process Monitor

Security Operations Centre Cyber-Attack Scenario-based Exercises

Exposure to real-world cyber-attack scenarios

Developing detection, and response skills through team-based exercises