Security Concepts
1. Explain common threats against on-premises and cloud environments
2. Compare common security vulnerabilities such as software bugs, weak and/or hardcoded passwords, SQL injection, missing encryption, buffer overflow, path traversal, cross-site scripting/forgery1
3. Describe functions of the cryptography components such as hashing, encryption, PKI, SSL, IPsec, NAT-T IPv4 for IPsec, pre-shared key and certificate based authorization
4. Compare site-to-site VPN and remote access VPN deployment types such as sVTI, IPsec, Cryptomap, DMVPN, FLEXVPN including high availability considerations, and AnyConnect
5. Describe security intelligence authoring, sharing, and consumption
6. Explain the role of the endpoint in protecting humans from phishing and social engineering attacks
7. Explain North Bound and South Bound APIs in the SDN architecture
8. Explain DNAC APIs for network provisioning, optimization, monitoring, and troubleshooting
9. Interpret basic Python scripts used to call Cisco Security appliances APIs
Network Security
1. Compare network security solutions that provide intrusion prevention and firewall capabilities
2. Describe deployment models of network security solutions and architectures that provide intrusion prevention and firewall capabilities
3. Describe the components, capabilities, and benefits of NetFlow and Flexible NetFlow records
4. Configure and verify network infrastructure security methods (router, switch, wireless)
5. Implement segmentation, access control policies, AVC, URL filtering, and malware protection
6. Implement management options for network security solutions such as intrusion prevention and perimeter security (Single vs. multidevice manager, in-band vs. out-of-band, CDP, DNS, SCP, SFTP, and DHCP security and risks)
7. Configure AAA for device and network access (authentication and authorization, TACACS+, RADIUS and RADIUS flows, accounting, and dACL)
8. Configure secure network management of perimeter security and infrastructure devices (secure device management, SNMPv3, views, groups, users, authentication, and encryption, secure logging, and NTP with authentication)
9. Configure and verify site-to-site VPN and remote access VPN
Securing the Cloud
1. Identify security solutions for cloud environments
2. Compare the customer vs. provider security responsibility for the different cloud service models
3. Describe the concept of DevSecOps (CI/CD pipeline, container orchestration, and security
4. Implement application and data security in cloud environments
5. Identify security capabilities, deployment models, and policy management to secure the cloud
6. Configure cloud logging and monitoring methodologies
7. Describe application and workload security concepts
Content Security
1. Implement traffic redirection and capture methods
2. Describe web proxy identity and authentication including transparent user identification
3. Compare the components, capabilities, and benefits of local and cloud-based email and web solutions (ESA, CES, WSA)
4. Configure and verify web and email security deployment methods to protect on-premises and remote users (inbound and outbound controls and policy management)
5. Configure and verify email security features such as SPAM filtering, antimalware filtering, DLP, blacklisting, and email encryption
6. Configure and verify secure internet gateway and web security features such as blacklisting, URL filtering, malware scanning, URL categorization, web application filtering, and TLS decryption
7. Describe the components, capabilities, and benefits of Cisco Umbrella
8. Configure and verify web security controls on Cisco Umbrella (identities, URL content settings, destination lists, and reporting)
Endpoint Protection & Detection
1. Compare Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) and Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) solutions
2. Explain antimalware, retrospective security, Indication of Compromise (IOC), antivirus, dynamic file analysis, and endpoint-sourced telemetry
3. Configure and verify outbreak control and quarantines to limit infection
4. Describe justifications for endpoint-based security
5. Describe the value of endpoint device management and asset inventory such as MDM
6. Describe the uses and importance of a multifactor authentication (MFA) strategy
7. Describe endpoint posture assessment solutions to ensure endpoint security
8. Explain the importance of an endpoint patching strategy
Secure Network Access , Visibility and Enforcement
The Above Topics are likely to be included on the 350-701 SCOR Exam. The topics are supposeed to change any time to reflect the latest technologies aligned to Cisco's Products.
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