Cybersecurity Foundations

Course Overview

In this course, you will gain a global perspective of the challenges of designing a secure system, touching on all the cyber roles needed to provide a cohesive security solution. Through lecture, labs, and breakout discussion groups, you will learn about current threat trends across the Internet and their impact on organizational security. You will review standard cybersecurity terminology and compliance requirements, examine sample exploits, and gain hands-on experience mitigating controls. In a contained lab environment, you will work with live viruses, including botnets, worms, and Trojans.

What you will Learn

  • Increase your awareness of security
  • Interpret/analyze tool output for network mapping/footprinting
  • Reduce attack surface of systems
  • Implement login security and other identity management solutions
  • Reduce attack surface of network devices
  • Explore current malware threats and anti-malware solutions
  • Explore social engineering threats, methods, and techniques
  • Review networking as it applies to security controls
  • Explore different data protection principles
  • Examine the role of PKI/certificates in building trusted relationships between devices in a network
  • Examine software vulnerabilities and security solutions for reducing the risk of exploitation
  • Explain monitoring capabilities and requirements and how those may raise privacy concerns
  • Identify physical security controls and the relationship between physical and IT security
  • Explain incident response capabilities
  • Identify legal considerations and investigative techniques when it comes to cybersecurity
  • Research trends in cybersecurity

Who should Attend

  • Network professionals looking to advance their knowledge and explore cybersecurity
  • Executives and managers looking to increase their ability to communicate with security professionals and implement a robust security solution
  • Individuals wants to improve their understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals, including threats, mitigating controls, and organizational responsibilities

Prerequisites

Fundamentals of networking

TCP/IP Networking including IP Addressing