Lesson 1: Conducting Threat Hunting and Defending Using Cisco Technologies – Security Architecture, Threats, and Platform Foundations

This lesson provides guided coverage of security architecture, threats, and platform foundations within the Conducting Threat Hunting and Defending Using Cisco Technologies for Cybersecurity v1.1 Training.

Topics Covered

• Cisco security architecture, trust boundaries, assets, users, and traffic flows
• Threat landscape, attack methods, vulnerabilities, indicators, and defensive controls
• Firewall, intrusion prevention, identity, endpoint, email, cloud, and network security roles
• Management interfaces, policies, objects, zones, access, and administrative workflow
• Secure connectivity, certificates, authentication, and authorization concepts
• Environment preparation, baseline configuration, and validation
• Security architecture mapping exercise

Practical Outcome

Learners complete the lesson with a clear understanding of the workflow, the ability to validate the expected result, and a structured approach to common troubleshooting tasks.