Cybersecurity Foundations  Virtual Classroom

In this cybersecurity 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.

After completing this course you should be able to:

Increase your awareness of security

Interpret/analyze tool output for network mapping/footprinting

Reduce attack surface of systems

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

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

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