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Cybersecurity Foundations
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 Overview
TCP/IP Networking or equivalent knowledge
9000 Regency Parkway
Cary, NC 27518
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Learning 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
- 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
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):
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