Cyber Active Defense Professional (CADP) Exam Objectives

The core objectives CADP candidates need to understand to pass the CADP exam and apply Active Cyber Defense strategies effectively.

Module 1: Active Defense & Cyber Resiliency Goals

🎯 Understand Cyber Resiliency as defined in NIST 800-160 Volume 2.
🎯 Learn the four resiliency goals.
🎯 Adapt: Improve security postures by learning from incidents.

Module 2: Cyber Resiliency Objectives

🎯 Implement Prevent/Avoid strategies (access control, updates, training).
🎯 Prepare for incidents via response plans, roles, and training.
🎯 Continue critical operations using redundancy and failover solutions.
🎯 Reconstitute systems after compromise by restoring trusted configurations.
🎯 Understand system architectures, vulnerabilities, and threats.
🎯 Transform outdated security practices into proactive defenses.
🎯 Re-architect networks for resilience with segmentation and redundancy.

Module 3: Adaptive Response

🎯 Utilize dynamic reconfiguration (firewall rules, ACL adjustments).
🎯 Implement dynamic resource allocation (load balancing, emergency shutoffs).
🎯 Apply adaptive management with AI-driven security decisions and automated responses.

Module 4: Contextual Awareness

🎯 Develop dynamic resource awareness (real-time asset tracking, diagnostics).
🎯 Maintain dynamic threat awareness (intelligence gathering, risk forecasting).
🎯 Leverage mission dependency visualization (dashboards, compliance tools).

Module 5: Coordinated Protection

🎯 Deploy calibrated defense-in-depth to prevent single points of failure.
🎯 Apply consistency analysis to eliminate security gaps.
🎯 Use orchestration for unified security actions and automation.
🎯 Implement self-challenge through red teaming and penetration testing.

Module 6: Deception

🎯 Design deceptive environments with honeypots, honeytokens, and disinformation.
🎯 Use obfuscation techniques (encryption, randomized data paths).
🎯 Employ misdirection to divert attackers from critical assets.

Module 7: Diversity

🎯 Apply architectural diversity (OS, hardware, network configurations).
🎯 Utilize synthetic diversity (ASLR, randomized compilers).
🎯 Strengthen security with supply chain diversity to mitigate vendor risks.

Module 8: Dynamic Positioning

🎯 Implement functional relocation to move critical resources securely.
🎯 Enhance asset mobility through encryption and real-time tracking.
🎯 Use fragmentation to distribute and protect sensitive data.

Module 9: Non-Persistence

🎯 Utilize non-persistent information strategies (temporary storage, data erasure).
🎯 Implement non-persistent services (disposable VMs, time-limited sessions).
🎯 Enforce non-persistent connectivity to reduce attack opportunities.

Module 10: Privilege Management

🎯 Restrict privileges based on least privilege and zero-trust principles.
🎯 Implement trust-based privilege models (time-based, role-based access).
🎯 Automate dynamic privilege assignment based on risk.

Module 11: Privilege Realignment

🎯 Reallocate resources dynamically to maintain operational continuity.
🎯 Ensure purposing to prevent unauthorized privilege expansion.

Module 12: Redundancy

🎯 Deploy protected backup and restore methods (encryption, off-site storage).
🎯 Utilize replication for failover and data integrity.

Module 13: Segmentation

🎯 Apply predefined segmentation (DMZs, VLANs, air gaps).
🎯 Implement dynamic segmentation that adjusts in real time to threats.

Module 14: Unpredictability

🎯 Use temporal unpredictability (randomized security schedules, reauthentication).
🎯 Employ contextual unpredictability (random access control policies, changing system behaviors).

Be the Hunter, Not the Hunted – Take Control of Cybersecurity

In the age of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), AI-driven attacks, and cyber warfare, passive defense strategies are obsolete. The CADP certification arms you with the knowledge, tools, and tactics to not just react, but to act first, mislead attackers, and neutralize threats before they strike.

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