Cybersecurity Fundamentals Training Course

DOMAIN 1: CYBERSECURITY CONCEPTS

• 1.1 Understanding of information assurance (IA) principles applied to managing risks associated with the use, processing, storage, and transmission of data.
• 1.2 Familiarity with security management practices.
• 1.3 Insight into risk management processes, including assessment steps and methodologies.
• 1.4 Awareness of the organization’s enterprise information technology (IT) goals and objectives.
• 1.5 Understanding of various operational threat environments (e.g., first generation [script kiddies], second generation [non-nation state sponsored], and third generation [nation state sponsored]).
• 1.6 Knowledge of information assurance (IA) principles and organizational requirements concerning confidentiality, integrity, availability, authentication, and non-repudiation.
• 1.7 Awareness of common adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) within the assigned responsibility area (e.g., historical country-specific TTPs, emerging capabilities).
• 1.8 Understanding of different attack classifications (e.g., passive, active, insider, close-in, distribution).
• 1.9 Knowledge of applicable laws, policies, procedures, and governance requirements.
• 1.10 Understanding of relevant laws, policies, procedures, or governance frameworks as they pertain to work impacting critical infrastructure.

DOMAIN 2: CYBERSECURITY ARCHITECTURE PRINCIPLES

• 2.1 Understanding of network design processes, including security objectives, operational goals, and trade-offs.
• 2.2 Familiarity with security system design methods, tools, and techniques.
• 2.3 Knowledge of network access and identity and access management (e.g., public key infrastructure [PKI]).
• 2.4 Insight into 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, utilizing standards-based concepts and capabilities.
• 2.6 Understanding of network security architecture concepts, including topology, protocols, components, and principles (e.g., applying defence in depth).
• 2.7 Knowledge of malware analysis concepts and methodology.
• 2.8 Familiarity with intrusion detection methodologies and techniques for identifying host- and network-based intrusions using intrusion detection technologies.
• 2.9 Understanding of defence in depth principles and network security architecture.
• 2.10 Knowledge of encryption algorithms (e.g., Internet Protocol Security [IPSEC], Advanced Encryption Standard [AES], Generic Routing Encapsulation [GRE]).
• 2.11 Familiarity with cryptology.
• 2.12 Understanding of encryption methodologies.
• 2.13 Knowledge of traffic flow across networks (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol [TCP/IP], Open System Interconnection model [OSI]).
• 2.14 Understanding of network protocols (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol and Internet Protocol).

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

• 3.1 Knowledge of computer network defence (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 Understanding of risks associated with virtualization.
• 3.4 Knowledge of penetration testing principles, tools, and techniques (e.g., Metasploit, Neo4j).
• 3.5 Insight into network systems management principles, models, methods (e.g., end-to-end systems performance monitoring), and tools.
• 3.6 Understanding of remote access technology concepts.
• 3.7 Familiarity with systems administration concepts.
• 3.8 Knowledge of the Unix command line.
• 3.9 Awareness of system and application security threats and vulnerabilities.
• 3.10 Understanding of system lifecycle management principles, including software security and usability.
• 3.11 Knowledge of local specialized system requirements (e.g., critical infrastructure systems that may not use standard information technology [IT]) regarding 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] and injections, race conditions, covert channels, replay attacks, return-oriented programming, 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 in 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], 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 Understanding of risk threat assessment.

DOMAIN 4: INCIDENT RESPONSE

• 4.1 Knowledge of incident categories, response strategies, and response timelines.
• 4.2 Familiarity with disaster recovery and continuity of operations plans.
• 4.3 Understanding of data backup, backup types (e.g., full, incremental), and recovery concepts and tools.
• 4.4 Knowledge of incident response and handling methodologies.
• 4.5 Awareness of security event correlation tools.
• 4.6 Understanding of the investigative implications of hardware, operating systems, and network technologies.
• 4.7 Knowledge of processes for seizing and preserving digital evidence (e.g., chain of custody).
• 4.8 Familiarity with types of digital forensics data and how to identify them.
• 4.9 Understanding of basic concepts and practices for processing digital forensic data.
• 4.10 Knowledge of anti-forensics tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPS).
• 4.11 Awareness of common forensic tool configuration and support applications (e.g., VMware, 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 Knowledge of emerging security issues, risks, and vulnerabilities.
• 5.3 Understanding of risks associated with mobile computing.
• 5.4 Familiarity with cloud concepts regarding data and collaboration.
• 5.5 Awareness of risks associated with migrating applications and infrastructure to the cloud.
• 5.6 Understanding of risks associated with outsourcing.
• 5.7 Knowledge of supply chain risk management processes and practices.