Course Outline
Foundations of Cybersecurity
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Identify the core skills and knowledge required to become a cybersecurity analyst.
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Determine how security attacks affect business operations.
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Understand the principles of security ethics.
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Recognize the standard tools utilized by cybersecurity analysts.
Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks
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Identify the primary threats, risks, and vulnerabilities affecting business operations.
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Investigate how organizations leverage security frameworks and controls to protect their operations.
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Define widely used Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.
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Utilize playbooks to respond effectively to threats, risks, and vulnerabilities.
Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security
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Define the various types of networks and their constituent components.
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Explain the process of sending and receiving data over a network.
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Learn how to secure networks against intrusion tactics.
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Describe system hardening techniques.
Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL
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Explain the relationship between operating systems, applications, and hardware.
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Compare graphical user interfaces with command line interfaces.
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Navigate and manage the file system using Linux commands via the Bash shell.
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Use SQL to retrieve information from a database.
Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
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Categorize assets.
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Analyze the attack surface to identify risks and vulnerabilities.
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Recognize threats such as social engineering, malware, and web-based exploits.
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Summarize the threat modeling process.
Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response
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Outline the steps to contain, eradicate, and recover from an incident.
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Analyze packets to interpret network communications.
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Understand the basic syntax, signatures, and logs in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) tools.
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Execute queries in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to investigate events.
Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python
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Explain the application of the Python programming language in cybersecurity.
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Create new, user-defined Python functions.
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Use regular expressions to extract data from text.
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Practice debugging code.
Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs
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Determine the appropriate timing and method for escalating a security incident.
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Engage with the cybersecurity community.
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Locate and apply for cybersecurity roles.
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Prepare for job interviews.
Requirements
- No formal qualifications or prior work experience are necessary.
Testimonials (2)
The final day which is the Machine Learning Topic
John Erick Baltazar - Globe Telecom
Course - Google BigQuery
It was a really good training course, well prepared and explained by the trainer with great hands on experience on GCP.
