Through lecture and labs 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.

This course is aimed at:

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

What’s Included

• 90 days access to the course
• comprehensive course materials
• 33 hours of study material
• lab environments

Learning Objectives

Upon completion of this on-demand event you will have a greater understanding of:

• Increased your awareness of security
• Be able to 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

Prerequisites

A comprehensive understanding of TCP/IP Networking or equivalent knowledge. thsi can be gained utilising te below on demand courses

• GK3150-LP, Understanding Network Fundamentals
• GK9025-LP, TCP/IP Networking