Runbooks
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What is Runbooks?
Runbooks are essentially detailed, step-by-step guides or checklists designed to help security teams and other IT professionals consistently and efficiently handle specific incidents, tasks, or procedures. They outline the actions needed to achieve a desired outcome, ensuring a standardized approach and reducing the likelihood of errors during time-sensitive situations like security breaches or system failures. These guides often include clear instructions, decision trees, scripts, and tools needed for effective response and resolution.
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More in stage 4: Security Skills and Knowledge
- Security Skills and Knowledge
- Understand Common Hacking Tools
- Core Concepts of Zero Trust
- Understand Common Exploit Frameworks
- Roles of Compliance and Auditors
- Blue / Red / Purple Teams
- Understand Concept of Defense in Depth
- Understand the Definition of Risk
- False Negative / False Positive
- Understand Backups and Resiliency
- True Negative / True Positive
- Understand Basics of Forensics
- Cyber Kill Chain
- Basics of Threat Intel, OSINT
- Basics and Concepts of Threat Hunting
- MFA & 2FA
- Honeypots
- Understand Handshakes
- Basics of Vulnerability Management
- Operating System Hardening
- Understand CIA Triad
- Basics of Reverse Engineering
- Understand Concept of Isolation
- Privilege Escalation
- Penetration Testing Rules of Engagement
- Basics of IDS and IPS
- Web Based Attacks and OWASP10
- Perimiter vs DMZ vs Segmentation
- Authentication vs Authorization
- Learn how Malware works and Types
- Star
- Ring
- Mesh
- Bus
- Understand the OSI Model
- Common Protocols and their Uses
- Common Ports and their Uses
- SSL and TLS Basics
- Basics of NAS and SAN
- Kerberos
- RADIUS
- LDAP
- SSO
- Certificates
- Local Auth
- SSH
- RDP
- FTP
- SFTP
- HTTP / HTTPS
- SSL / TLS
Runbooks: common questions
Can I learn Runbooks in Hindi?
This lesson is written in English. Once you sign in, open it in the interactive course and ask the AI tutor to explain Runbooks in Hindi or Hinglish. The tutor answers from this lesson’s own text, so it stays on the syllabus, and it runs on your own Google, OpenAI or Anthropic key.
Is this Runbooks tutorial for beginners?
It is lesson 104 of 301 in the free Cyber Security roadmap, in stage 4, Security Skills and Knowledge. If you are new to Cyber Security, start from stage 1 and come back here in order; if you already know the earlier stages, this lesson stands on its own.