Cisco Certified Specialist - Designing Cisco Security Infrastructure — Requirements & Free Practice

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Cisco specialist certification earned by passing the 300-745 SDSI exam.

Licensing authority: Cisco Systems, Inc.

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Examination outline

Secure Infrastructure (30%)
- Security approaches to protect against threats
- Security architecture for technical requirements
- VPN and tunneling solution selection
- Infrastructure management and control plane security
- Firewall feature or architecture selection
Applications (25%)
- Application and flow-data security solutions
- Cloud-native application segmentation
- Emerging technology impacts on application security
Risk, Events, and Requirements (30%)
- SOC incident handling and response tools
- Design changes to mitigate risk
- Security design changes following an incident
- Frameworks in the security design lifecycle
- Regulatory and industry compliance requirements
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and DevSecOps (15%)
- AI in network infrastructure security
- Automated security architecture and infrastructure
- DevSecOps workflow and pipeline decisions

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