441 Network Operations Specialist Advanced KSAT Journey

Efficient delivery of IT systems includes cost reduction and optimized system performance. In this 15-video course, discover how a structured approach for implementing changes and patches can reduce security incidents and downtime, in preparation for the ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) exam. Key concepts covered here include: how performance is related to service level agreements (SLAs), and differences between SLAs and operational level agreements; how to establish a baseline of normal performance and monitor performance metrics in Windows and Linux environments; and how to monitor performance metrics in a cloud computing environment. Next, learn how to configure cloud-based alerting; about enterprise change and configuration management procedures and terms such as content management system (CMS), configuration management database (CMDB), and configuration item (CI); and enterprise vulnerability management procedures. Learn how to configure which administrators can manage Group Policy Objects (GPOs); how to configure application deployment centrally with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM); configure Windows patch deployment centrally with SCCM; how to configure Ubuntu Linux to check for updates; and how to tweak IT system performance and implement controlled changes centrally.

CISA 2022: Technology resources, service level management, monitoring, and quality management all play crucial roles in information systems management and represent key areas of focus for information system (IS) auditing. In this course, you will explore IT resources and monitoring, beginning with a review of common technology components, IT resource management, service-level management, and service-level agreements. Then you will learn about performance baselines, Windows and Linux performance monitoring, and cloud-based performance monitoring and alerts. Finally, you will discover key aspects of quality management, IT quality management frameworks, and quality management best practices. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Systems planning, testing, integration, and delivery are key elements of ensuring the timely delivery of system changes or entirely novel solutions. In this course, you will explore the phases of the system development life cycle (SDLC) and IT project management. Next, you will examine continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) and process improvement, including advantages and common methodologies. Then you will discover infrastructure deployment, system migration and data conversion, and cloud migration assessments. Finally, you will learn about the post-implementation review process and post-implementation activities and best practices. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Effective IT management provides a structured approach to managing and auditing IT assets. It also provides a foundation for auditing, an important feature for information system (IS) auditors. In this course, you will discover key facets of information systems management, beginning with system interfaces and end-user computing. Then you will examine change management, configuration management, and vulnerability management. Finally, you will explore group policy configuration delegation, Microsoft Configuration Manager configuration management, Microsoft Configuration Manager patch deployment, and job scheduling. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Regardless of the guidance that one is following as a security professional, one common theme is that architects must be held to a high ethical standard based on their responsibility to manage risk to all assets. In this course, you will explore the International Information System Security Certification Consortium (ISC2) Code of Professional Ethics. Then you will discover organizational codes of ethics, which establish an integral aspect of a mission and model adopted by an organization. Finally, you will focus on the Five Pillars of information security - confidentiality, integrity, availability, authenticity, and non-repudiation. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

Security governance is the set of practices exercised by executive management to offer strategic direction, ensuring that objectives are achieved, determining that risks are managed properly, and verifying that the organizations' resources are used responsibly. Begin this course by discovering how to align security governance with organizational goals and objectives. Then you will explore organizational processes like acquisitions, divestitures, and governance committees, as well as organizational roles and responsibilities. You will investigate security control frameworks like including the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and learn about due diligence, due care, cybercrimes, and data breaches. Next, you will examine licensing and intellectual property requirements, import and export controls, transborder data flow, and privacy-related issues. Finally, you will focus on contractual, legal, industry standards and regulatory requirements. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

A security vulnerability is a weakness, flaw, or error found within a security element that has the potential to be leveraged by a threat agent in order to compromise a secure network, system, or application. The goal of this course is to prepare the CISSP candidate to assess and mitigate the vulnerabilities of security architectures, designs, and solution elements. In this course, you will begin by considering the potential vulnerabilities of various systems including client-based, server-based, database, cryptographic, industrial control (ICS), embedded, virtualized, cloud-based, and distributed systems and how you might mitigate these issues. Next, you will walk through ways to lessen vulnerabilities in Internet of Things (IoT) devices and discover how to assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in containerized systems and microservices including application programming interface (API) calls. You will also look at the potential weaknesses in serverless technologies, high-performance computing, and edge computing and how to alleviate these issues. Finally, you will explore the security capabilities of Information Systems like memory protection, Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and encryption/decryption.