Overview
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Set a rock-solid foundation for your network, users, and data by learning the basics of cybersecurity. Explore key frameworks, threats, and strategies for responding to incidents.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Understanding the frameworks, standards, and technology that form what we know as cybersecurity
- What you should know
- The Orange Book: Early concepts in computer security
- Understanding the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Adopting the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
- Understanding the basics of cyber risk
- Analyzing cyber threats and controls
- Recording, reporting, and the risk context
- An advanced risk framework
- Managing security with COBIT
- COBIT for operational security
- Introduction to cybersecurity controls
- Cybersecurity control framework
- The ISF Standard of Good Practice
- ASD and its top controls
- Protecting payment card data
- Clouding the issues
- Securing things on the internet
- Making sure security is effective
- Understanding the cyber kill chain
- Revisiting traditional threats
- Botnets and the cyber crime industry
- Cloaking and alternate data streams
- Hiding using processes
- Controlling the target through a rootkit
- Understanding advanced persistent threats
- Ransomware: A modern form of extortion
- Hardware implants and other cyber FUD
- Incident management basics
- Measuring incident management maturity
- Detecting an attack
- Responding to an incident
- What's next
