Cisco / Cybersecurity operations / 100-160

Build cybersecurity support foundations

Use CCST Cybersecurity as an entry route into security principles, endpoint and network defense, vulnerability handling, risk, and incident response before associate-level operations.

Core learning

Follow the current official objectives

  1. 1.Essential security principles
  2. 2.Basic network and endpoint security
  3. 3.Vulnerability assessment and risk management
  4. 4.Incident handling
  5. 5.Security operations foundations

Hands-on consolidation

Build and troubleshoot in an isolated lab

Create a safe endpoint and network lab. Review authentication and permissions, identify exposed services, analyze sample logs and packet captures, prioritize findings, and write a concise incident timeline and containment plan.

Ready when…

You can recognize common threats, preserve evidence, prioritize risk, recommend a proportionate control, and follow an incident process without damaging evidence.

Practice and review

Find gaps with our 100-160 test

75 original, source-backed questions; the first 7 are free. Pair knowledge review with the practical lab above.

Try our 100-160 practice test →