Duration
3 days
Overview
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.
Course Objectives
- 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
Course Outline
- 1. Cybersecurity Awareness
- What is security?
- Confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- Security baselining
- Security concerns: Humans
- Types of threats
- Security controls
- What is hacking?
- Risk management
- Data in motion vs. data at rest
- 2. Security Architecture
- Security architecture
- Network devices
- Network zones
- Network segmentation
- Network Address Translation
- Network Access Control
- 3. Data Security
- Cryptography
- Principles of permissions
- Steganography
- 4. Identity Management
- What is identity management?
- Personally identifiable information
- Authentication factors
- Directory services
- Password policies
- Cracking passwords
- Password managers
- Group accounts
- Service accounts
- Identity as a Service
- 5. Malware
- What is malware?
- Infection methods
- Types of malware
- Backdoors
- Countermeasures
- Protection tools
- 6. Social Engineering
- What is social engineering?
- Social engineering targets
- Social engineering attacks
- Statistical data
- Information harvesting
- Preventing social engineering
- Cyber awareness: Policies and procedures
- Social media
- 7. Physical Security
- What is physical security?
- Defense in depth
- Types of physical security controls
- Device security
- Human security
- Security policies
- compliance
- Cybercrime
- 8. Trends in Cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity design constraints
- Cyber driving forces
- How connected are you?
- How reliant on connectivity are you?
- Identity management
- Cybersecurity standards
- Cybersecurity training
- 9. Course Look Around
- Looking back
- Looking forward
- Planning your journey
Programme scope, delivery arrangements and suitability are confirmed during enquiry.