CC Certified in Cybersecurity Study Guide

CHAPTER 14Network Threats and Attacks: Objective 4.2 Understand Network Threats and Attacks

Understanding cybersecurity involves recognizing the various threats that can compromise data and systems. This chapter serves as a guide for both security professionals and general users to learn about different types of network-based threats and how they operate.

In this chapter, you'll learn about the first subobjective of CC objective 4.2. The remaining material for this objective is covered in Chapter 15, “Threat Identification and Protection.” The following subobjective is covered in this chapter:

• Types of threats (e.g., distributed denial-of-service (DDoS), virus, worm, Trojan, man-in-the-middle (MITM), side-channel)

MALWARE

Malware (or ...