• Classroom
  • Online, Instructor-Led
  • Online, Self-Paced
Course Description

With this course, you can be among the few who transcend the old idea of the hacker having all the fun, take pride being the defender, form an offensive mindset to skillfully orchestrate robust and solid defenses and reinvent popular belief by beating the hacker at his own game.

You will be evaluating advanced hacking methods of defense fortification, bringing you closer to establishing perfect security best practices and methodologies you can apply to secure environments. This course provides segmentation and isolation to reduce the effectiveness of the advanced persistent threats.

CAST 614 will cover fundamental areas of fortifying your defenses by discovering methods of developing a secure baseline and how to harden your enterprise architecture from the most advanced attacks. Once a strategy for a fortified perimeter is defined, the course moves on to defending against the sophisticated malware that is on the rise today and the importance of live memory analysis and real time monitoring.

Learning Objectives

Students completing this course will gain an in-depth knowledge in the following areas:

  • Staging a strong defense against popular security threats
  • Fortifying your organization with a good foundation of risk protection methods
  • Applying latest references and guidance on best practices in the field of cyber security
  • Securing your enterprise architecture from a medium threat level and building towards more sophisticated threats

Framework Connections

The materials within this course focus on the NICE Framework Task, Knowledge, and Skill statements identified within the indicated NICE Framework component(s):

Specialty Areas

  • Risk Management
  • Software Development
  • Systems Development

Specialty Areas have been removed from the NICE Framework. With the recent release of the new NICE Framework data, updates to courses are underway. Until this course can be updated, this historical information is provided to give better context as to how it can help you with your cybersecurity goals.