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621 Software Developer KSAT Intermediate NCWF Journey
- 65 Courses | 68h 3m 29s
Develops, creates, maintains, and writes/codes new (or modifies existing) computer applications, software, or specialized utility programs.
621 Software Developer
Develops, creates, maintains, and writes/codes new (or modifies existing) computer
applications, software, or specialized utility programs.
- 65 Courses | 68h 3m 29s
COURSES INCLUDED
The Requirements Life Cycle Management Knowledge Area
The requirements life cycle guides business analysts in managing requirements throughout their life span. Using the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge (BABOK) as an aid to analyzing the business ensures the relationships between requirements and designs are understood, traced, and approved, so that solutions meet stakeholder needs. In this course, you'll learn about the analysis and analytics tasks in the requirements lifecycle management knowledge area.
11 videos |
39m
Assessment
Badge
Data Analysis and Root Cause Analysis in Six Sigma
A critical success factor when carrying out business process improvement is the ability to understand the vast amounts of data related to process design and process control. This course covers the data analysis and root cause analysis techniques used in Lean Six Sigma to implement process improvement. You'll explore different Lean tools, such as probability distribution charts and normal and binomial distributions. You'll also learn about other techniques used in Six Sigma, including the five whys, process maps, matrix charts, and force field analysis. This course is aligned to the ASQ Body of Knowledge, and is designed to assist Yellow Belt candidates toward achieving their certification.
12 videos |
55m
Assessment
Badge
Pen Testing for Software Development: The Penetration Testing Process
Penetration testing can identify both known and unknown vulnerabilities and help avoid security breaches. In this course, you'll learn the importance of penetration testing, what system hardening is, and the requirements of penetration testing. You'll then examine the differences between penetration testing and vulnerability assessments, as well as the various types, stages, and methods of penetration testing. Next, you'll learn about white box, black box, and gray box penetration testing, and the differences in penetration testing methodologies. You'll see the available tools for performing penetration testing, as well as the types of outputs resulting from penetration testing. Lastly, you'll learn about penetration testing best practices and how to perform a penetration test.
16 videos |
1h 26m
Assessment
Badge
Role of Testing in Managing Clean Code
This 15-video course explores approaches of identifying bad code, designing applications using clean coding principles, and best practices for coding artifacts that meet clean coding standards. Learners begin with a look at the common traits and approaches of identifying code that needs to be cleaned, then learn how to design applications with clean code. Examine coding artifacts and best practices that should be adopted to create artifacts with clean code, and how to write applications that apply clean coding to artifacts such as classes, interfaces, methods, and variable declarations. Explore error handling styles that should be adopted for writing clean code, and manage code errors by adopting clean coding practices. Next, learn about the significance of the united testing F.I.R.S.T principle (Fast, Isolated, Repeatable, Self-validating, and Thorough or Timely), in writing clean tests. View fundamental principles of writing clean code. Also explore the testing strategies for clean code; clean code testing objectives, and writing clean code in Javascript. Learn about the principles of test-driven development (TDD), and finally, how to write code with TDD.
15 videos |
1h 18m
Assessment
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CLCOR: Understanding Voice & Video Codecs
In order to provide sufficient bandwidth for incoming and outgoing calls, a collaboration engineer is required to know how the human voice gets converted into an Internet Protocol (IP) signal. In this course, you'll explore voice and video codecs in a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) network and examine bandwidth management. You'll begin by identifying the process of encoding and decoding voice using codecs, different levels of compressions applied on IP signals, and how these IP signals get transmitted over an IP network. You'll also outline how to determine bandwidth requirements for specific codecs. Finally, you'll investigate bandwidth calculation and management techniques and demonstrate call admission control (CAC) configuration using Cisco Unified Communication Manager (UCM). This course is a part of a collection of courses that will prepare you for the 350-801: Implementing and Operating Cisco Collaboration Core Technologies (CLCOR) certification exam.
9 videos |
42m
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CCSP 2022: Legal Requirements, Privacy Issues, & Risk Management in the Cloud
Cloud computing presents a number of unique risks and issues since it routinely crosses many geographic and political boundaries, and international legislation, regulations, and privacy requirements can conflict with one another. In this course, examine the legal and privacy issues that a Certified Cloud Security Professional can expect to face. Begin by investigating conflicting international laws, eDiscovery, and Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) guidance. Then, focus on personal privacy issues related to protected health information (PHI), personally identifiable information (PII), and privacy impact assessments (PIAs), and compare privacy requirements including ISO/IEC 27018, Generally Accepted Privacy Principles (GAPP), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Finally, explore risk management by assessing risk management programs and studying regulatory transparency requirements, including breach notification, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and GDPR. This is one of a collection of courses that fully prepares the learner for the ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) 2022 exam.
10 videos |
25m
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CompTIA Cloud Essentials+: Contracting with Cloud Service Providers
Before adopting cloud services, you need to calculate costs and establish the most appropriate contract with cloud providers. In this course, you'll explore the direct cost and financial implications of various aspects of cloud computing. You'll also examine cloud computing licensing models and subscription types and compare cloud computing's initial costs with the long-term benefits. Additionally, you'll list core considerations when establishing contracts for cloud service usage. You'll investigate requests for information (RFIs), cloud pricing models, the differences between fixed and dynamic pricing, and best practices for deriving cloud-based professional services. Moving on, you'll outline the end-to-end services provided by managed cloud service providers (CSPs) and the benefits of those services. You'll examine the essential components of SOWs for cloud managed services. Lastly, you'll configure cost estimates for AWS service usage using the AWS Pricing Calculator. You can use this course in preparation for the CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ (CLO-002) certification exam.
14 videos |
1h 2m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cloud+: Cloud Solution Design
Developing new software systems can be costly and time consuming. Cloud-based solutions can help get your system online quickly and cost-effectively and help to meet all your business requirements. In this course, you'll learn how to analyze the cloud solution design in support of business requirements. First, you'll explore how to analyze the solution design while considering requirements for software, hardware, system integration, security, network, disaster recovery, budgeting, service level agreements, and compliance. Next, you'll learn about the benefits of using multiple environments for development, quality assurance, staging, and production. You'll also examine the advantages of performing blue-green deployments. Finally, you'll learn about software development testing techniques such as performance, regression, functional, usability, vulnerability, and penetration testing. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Cloud+ (CV0-003) certification.
12 videos |
1h 13m
Assessment
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Google Professional Cloud Architect: Designing for Google Cloud Compliance
Compliance is a significant concern for many organizations, and many have historically failed to protect data adequately. In this course you will explore how governance has come to protect data, such as health records, through legislation like HIPAA and COPPA. Then, discover how commercial interests have helped bolster financial stability by setting standards of protecting data via certifications like Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) that allow customers and businesses to trust you. In addition, there are specific industry certifications that may need to be met depending on the function of the business you run, rather than the data you keep. You will also focus on the need to maintain careful auditing standards for the integrity of any legal disputes that might arise. Finally, you will focus on use cases that you can expect to encounter in an exam environment. This course is one of a collection that prepares learners for the Google Professional Cloud Architect exam.
12 videos |
59m
Assessment
Badge
CloudOps: Implementing SD-WAN to Optimize Environments
Implementing the right software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) framework for the organization can help improve network management, decrease hardware costs, increase efficiency, and even enhance security. In this course, you'll explore the differences between traditional, software-defined networking, and a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN). You'll learn about the advantages, working mechanisms, solution architecture, and primary components of SD-WAN. Next, you'll examine the topologies and deployment models that can be used to design SD-WAN overlays, along with prominent tools and applications that can be used to build, deploy, and maintain SD-WAN. You'll learn how to apply CloudOps in networks to simplify configuring, managing, and delivering the SD-WAN. You'll examine security challenges and best practices for secure deployment of SD-WAN and prominent Cisco SD-WAN architectures that can be implemented in AWS. You'll see approaches that can be used in an SD-WAN to transform complex legacy networks into easy-to-manage and scalable networks. Finally, you'll learn to configure AWS Transit Gateway, AWS-provided Cisco Cloud Services Router 1000V - BYOL, and VMware SD-WAN.
16 videos |
1h 14m
Assessment
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CRISC 2023: Data Privacy
Data privacy is a foremost concern for most organizations. Compliance with laws and regulations feeds into risk management. In this course, you will discover the characteristics of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and techniques to prevent sensitive data leakage. Then you will explore data loss prevention (DLP) and learn how to implement DLP using Microsoft Purview. Next, you will examine various data privacy and security standards including International Organization for Standardization (ISO)/International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Finally, you will focus on the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). This course can be used to prepare for the ISACA(r) Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC(r)) certification.
12 videos |
1h 7m
Assessment
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CRISC 2023: Authorization
Strong authorization settings limit permissions to resources for authenticated entities. Cybersecurity analysts must be aware of how to not only configure resource permissions, but also how to evaluate existing permissions to ensure adherence to the principle of least privilege. In this course, you will discover how authorization is related to, but differs from, authentication. Then, you will explore access control models, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and attribute-based access control (ABAC). Next, you will find out how to manage Linux and Windows file system permissions using the command lines. Finally, you will learn how to configure Windows dynamic access control, work with privileged access management in Linux using sudo, and manage RBAC permissions in the Microsoft Azure cloud. This course can be used to prepare for the ISACA(r) Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC(r)) certification.
10 videos |
53m
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CRISC 2023: Cryptography
Confidentiality, integrity, and availability are core pillars of IT security governance. Cybersecurity analysts can harden IT environments using various encryption and hashing techniques. In this course, examine how the CIA triad relates to IT security and how cryptography protects sensitive data. Next, discover how to configure Encrypting File System (EFS) file encryption and Microsoft BitLocker encryption, and use a customer-managed key to enable encryption for an Azure storage account. Then learn how to hash files in Linux and Windows. Finally, find out about hardware security modules (HSMs) and the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), how Transport Layer Security (TLS) supersedes the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and how to enable HTTPS. This course can be used to prepare for the ISACA(r) Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC(r)) certification.
14 videos |
1h 18m
Assessment
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CRISC 2023: Public Key Infrastructure
Public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates are used to secure IT environments in many different ways, such as through email encryption and web server HTTPS bindings. Technicians must have an understanding of how PKI certificates are requested, issued, and used. In this course, you will explore the PKI hierarchy from certification authorities (CAs) down to issued certificates, as well as the PKI certificate life cycle. Next, you will learn how to deploy a private CA on the Windows platform and how to manage PKI certificate templates. Then, you will acquire PKI certificates and configure a web server HTTPS binding. Finally, you will configure a website to allow access only from clients with trusted PKI certificates. This course can be used to prepare for the ISACA(r) Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC(r)) certification.
9 videos |
51m
Assessment
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CRISC 2023: Network Security
Organizations should secure resource access while remaining compliant with relevant laws and regulations. One way to do this is to ensure proper network security controls are in place and reviewed regularly. In this course, learn about the OSI model layers, their relevance to network security controls, and the security aspects of network switching and network access control. Next, explore DHCP and DNS security issues, Wi-Fi authentication methods, and how to harden a DHCP and DNS deployment on Windows Server. Finally, discover the importance of honeypots and honeynets, how to implement a honeypot, how to analyze captured network traffic, and the purpose of an interconnection security agreement. This course can be used to prepare for the ISACA(r) Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC(r)) certification.
15 videos |
1h 29m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Network Security Concepts
Cybersecurity policies often require detailed network configuration changes and additions. Technicians must be proficient with the configuration and management of various TCP/IP protocols. In this course, I will start by discussing the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model, network switching, and network access control. Next, I'll discuss the TCP/IP protocol suite as well as IPv4 and IPv6 addressing. I will then discuss network routing, dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP), domain name system (DNS) and Wi-Fi authentication methods. Lastly, I will cover virtual private networks (VPNs), IP Security (IPsec) and network time synchronization. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
14 videos |
1h 29m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Managing Network Settings
Modern IT solutions communicate over various types of networks. Cybersecurity analysts must be able to configure and secure the ways that devices communicate over these networks. In this course, I will begin by creating on-premises and cloud-based virtual networks, followed by managing IP addressing on Linux, Windows, and in the cloud. Next, I will manage routing table entries in the cloud and implement domain name system (DNS) and Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) security. Lastly, I will harden a Wi-Fi router and configure IPsec in Windows. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
11 videos |
59m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Cloud Computing & Cybersecurity
Cloud computing is an integral part of IT solutions for individuals and organizations. A knowledge of how cloud computing services are deployed and managed is a requirement for securing cloud-based resources. In this course, I will start by discussing cloud computing deployment models, such as public and private clouds, followed by discussing various cloud computing service models. Next, I will cover a variety of cloud computing security solutions, and I will deploy Linux and Windows cloud-based virtual machines. I will then deploy a web application in the cloud, cover the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM) security controls, and work with Microsoft Azure managed identities. Lastly, I will discuss and configure a content delivery network (CDN). This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
12 videos |
1h 10m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Data Security Standards
To remain compliant with relevant data privacy laws and regulations, organizations must have a way of identifying sensitive data and implementing security controls to protect that data. In this course, explore how physical security is related to digital data security, examples of personally identifiable information (PII), and how data loss prevention (DLP) solutions can prevent data exfiltration. Next, learn about common data privacy regulations and standards, including GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS. Finally, discover how to use Amazon Macie and File Server Resource Manager to discover and classify sensitive information and learn about the importance of service level objectives (SLOs) and service level agreements (SLAs). This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
11 videos |
1h 3m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Threat Intelligence
Cybersecurity analysts and security tools can reference a variety of threat intelligence sources to keep up to date with the latest threats and mitigations. These can be used to help keep organization security policies as effective as possible. In this course, examine different threat intelligence sources, the common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) website, and the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base. Next, discover how the OWASP Top 10 can help harden vulnerable web applications, how advanced persistent threats (APTs) are executed, and common ISO/IEC standards. Finally, learn how to analyze CIS benchmark documents, the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), common organization security policy structures, and how organizational culture relates to IT security. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
12 videos |
1h 9m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: OS Process Management
Managing the running processes on Linux and Windows hosts not only improves performance but also impacts how secure those hosts are. Determining what an abnormal performance or activity is greatly facilitates comparisons to current activity to established baselines of normal performance and behavior. In this course, I will start by navigating through the Windows registry followed by exploring Linux hardware devices using the Linux command line. I will then use the Windows Device Manager tool to manage a hardware device. Next, I will create partitions and file systems on Linux and Windows hosts followed by covering how processes and daemons interact with the Linux OS. I will manage Linux and Windows processes and daemons, or services. Lastly, I will establish a normal performance baseline on a Windows Server using a data collector set. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ (CySA+) exam.
11 videos |
59m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Public Key Infrastructure
Public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates are used to secure IT environments in many different ways, such as through e-mail encryption and web server HTTPS bindings. Technicians must have an understanding of how PKI certificates are requested, issued, and used. In this course, I'll start by discussing the PKI hierarchy from certification authorities (CAs) down to issued certificates and explore the PKI certificate life cycle. Next, I will deploy a private CA on the Windows platform and demonstrate how to manage PKI certificate templates. Then, I will acquire PKI certificates and configure a web server HTTPS binding. Lastly, I will configure a website to allow access only from clients with trusted PKI certificates. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ exam.
9 videos |
49m
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Firewalls & Intrusion Detection
Firewall solutions control which types of network traffic are allowed into, through, or to leave a host or network. Cybersecurity analysts must know which type of firewall is needed for a given requirement as well as the placement of the firewall solution on the network. In this course, you will begin with a comparison of firewall types such as packet filtering, next-generation, and web application firewalls and learn how to determine their placement on the network. Then you will configure Windows Defender and Linux firewall settings. Next, you will configure Azure network security group firewall rules and explore the role played by forward and reverse proxy servers. Finally, you will install the Squid proxy server on Linux, find out how intrusion detection and prevention systems can address security concerns, and install and configure the Snort IDS. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ exam.
10 videos |
56m
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Vulnerability & Penetration Testing
Vulnerability scanning identifies host and network vulnerabilities and must be an ongoing task. Penetration testing is an active security method by which there is an attempt to exploit discovered vulnerabilities. In this course, you will discover how to plan for, schedule, and execute vulnerability assessments, identify common vulnerability scanning tools, and conduct an nmap scan. Next, you will use Nessus and Zenmap to execute security scans and text web app security using the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) tool. Then you will explore penetration testing and the Metasploit framework and use the Burp Suite tool as an HTTP intermediary proxy. Finally, you will learn how to manage Azure policy, investigate potential indicators of compromise, and examine how IT security relates to industrial control systems. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ exam.
14 videos |
1h 21m
Assessment
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CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Secure Coding & Digital Forensics
Security must be included in all phases of IT system and software development designs. Continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) integrates development and ongoing management of IT solutions. Cybersecurity analysts must understand IT governance and digital forensics concepts. Begin this course by examining the role of security in the software development life cycle (SDLC). Then you will explore CI/CD and learn how Git is used for file version control. Next, you will discover how the Control Objectives for Information and Related Technologies (COBIT) framework applies to IT governance and you will investigate digital forensics. Finally, you will configure legal hold settings for a cloud storage account and list common digital forensics hardware and software solutions. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ exam.
10 videos |
55m
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CompTIA Data+: Understanding Data Manipulation
Data is rarely received in perfect form and often requires some sort of manipulation to make it sing. That is why the world needs data analysts. They can squeeze every bit of usefulness from datasets, and they also know how to prep datasets to extract meaning from them. In this course, you will explore key concepts of data manipulation, beginning with data manipulation tools. Then you will learn organization techniques like filtering and sorting data to make it easier to interpret. Next, you will focus on date functions, logical functions, aggregate functions, and system functions. Finally, you will investigate the best practices associated with data manipulation. This course can be used to prepare for CompTIA Data+ (DA0-001) exam.
11 videos |
55m
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CompTIA Data+: Descriptive Statistical Methods
Descriptive statistics are used to describe the characteristics of datasets. They are leveraged by data analysts to find answers or characteristics of data that aren't immediately or directly answered by analyzing the data alone. In other words, descriptive statistics are used to summarize characteristics of data that are not actually contained or explicitly described by the data. In this course, you will explore descriptive statistical methods, beginning with the purpose and role of descriptive statistics. Then you will dig into measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion, and frequency distribution. Finally, you'll examine percent change, percent difference, and confidence intervals. This course can be used to prepare for CompTIA Data+ (DA0-001) exam.
15 videos |
1h 21m
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CompTIA Server+: Network Communications
Learning the various aspects of network communications hardware and software is vital to anyone working in a server environment. Use this theory and practice-based course to get a grip on configuring virtual networks and virtual network interface cards (NICs). Explore how network communications hardware and software map to the OSI model. Identify different types of communication networks such as LAN and VLAN. Then, learn how network switching and network routing work. Moving on, practice deploying a hypervisor virtual network. Next, practice configuring IP routing in the cloud and virtual network peering. Then, identify various types of NICs and cables. And finally, practice configuring on-premises and cloud-based virtual machine NICs. Upon completion, you'll be able to identify various network models and configure virtual networks and virtual NICs. You'll also be a step closer to being prepared for the CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 certification exam.
12 videos |
1h 12m
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CompTIA Server+: Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
A public key infrastructure (PKI) is a hierarchy of digital security certificates. The top of the hierarchy consists of a certification authority (CA) and optional subordinate registration authorities (RAs). CAs and RAs issue PKI certificates to users, devices, and apps. Examine the PKI hierarchy and key PKI components including the certification authority, digital certificates, and chain of trust. Learn how to configure a private CA on-premises and in the cloud as a managed service. Explore the details contained within a PKI certificate and configure certificate templates which serve as a blueprint for issuing various types of PKI certificates. Next, you'll learn how to acquire certificates on-premises and in the cloud followed by a look at working with OpenSSL. Upon completion, you'll be able to plan, implement, and manage PKI environments both on-premises and in the cloud. You'll also be a step closer to being prepared for the CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 certification exam.
10 videos |
59m
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CompTIA Server+: Network Firewalls
In cybersecurity, firewalls control what type of traffic is allowed into or out of a server or network. There are a variety of firewall types designed for specific use-cases and these solutions can come in the form of a dedicated hardware or software appliance, or could be software running within a general purpose operating system. Discover common network and wireless security threats and mitigations, and how packet filtering firewalls work. Learn to configure a Windows and Linux firewall and work with cloud-based packet filtering in AWS and Microsoft Azure. Finally, discover how proxy servers and network address translation (NAT) work in securing the network. Upon completion, you'll be able to select and implement the appropriate firewall solution on-premises and in the cloud. This course is part of a collection that prepares you for the CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 certification exam.
14 videos |
1h 32m
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CompTIA Server+: Data Privacy & Protection
Data privacy has become engrained in laws and regulations all over the world. Server technicians must take the appropriate steps to secure sensitive data in alignment with applicable laws and regulations. Discover items that constitute personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) and identify common data security standards such as GDPR, HIPPAA, and PCI DSS. Differentiate between various types of malware and discover how the art of deception is practiced through social engineering. Next, examine data loss prevention (DLP) and implement data discovery and classification on-premises and in the cloud. Lastly, examine key storage media destruction techniques. Upon course completion, you'll be able secure data in alignment with applicable laws and regulations. You'll also be more prepared for the CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 certification exam.
11 videos |
1h 3m
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Forensic Analysis: Cybercrime Investigations
Cybercrime investigators are typically responsible for collecting, processing, analyzing, and interpreting digital evidence related to network vulnerabilities, criminal activity, and counterintelligence initiatives. In this course, you'll explore the basics of network packet capturing, a process used to intercept and log traffic occurring over a network. You'll also examine the purpose and features of some standard tools and techniques to preserve and analyze a computer system's most volatile data. You'll then learn to use some of these tools and techniques to achieve various digital forensic analysis goals. Next, you'll recognize computer forensic best practices, including locating evidence in the Windows Registry. Finally, you'll learn how to differentiate between the purpose and features of the various tools available for conducting hard disk forensic analysis.
17 videos |
1h 37m
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Defensive CyberOps: Defensive Cyberspace Operations
A well-planned and properly executed DCO mission will enable the cyber warrior to repel attacks and rapidly prepare for offensive action. In this course, you'll learn the principles of Defensive Cyber Operations, including measures and responses. You'll explore cybersecurity and cyberspace operations in DCO. Next, you'll look at DCO analytics, missions, and operating domains. You'll explore the role of the mission owner and network owner in DCO, as well as planning considerations. Finally, you'll learn about cyberspace threats that may occur during the course of maneuver operations and common security and system tools used in DCO.
14 videos |
42m
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Threat Intelligence & Attribution Best Practices: Attribution Analysis
Cyber attribution analysis is used to track, identify, and incriminate perpetrators of cyber attacks or exploits and is a must-know offensive security operations technique. In this course, you'll learn about the fundamental concepts and critical concerns related to attribution. You'll start by examining the different attribution types and levels before exploring attribution indicators, techniques, best practices, tools, and challenges. Moving on, you'll gain insight into how to identify and interpret forensic artifacts gathered from various sources, manage evidence, and make attribution judgments and assessments. You'll then study geopolitics, the Intelligence Community, and legal considerations as they relate to cyber threats and attribution. Lastly, you'll look into how malware cyber threat reverse engineering, code sharing analysis, and network behavior analysis lead to attribution.
20 videos |
1h 22m
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Neural Network Mathematics: Understanding the Mathematics of a Neuron
First conceived in the 1940s, it wasn't until the early 2010s that artificial neurons showed their true potential as layered entities in the form of neural networks. When big data processing using distributed computing became mainstream, the computational capacity was now available to train these neural networks on huge datasets. Knowing this is one thing, but understanding how it all works is where the true potential lies. Use this course to gain an intuitive understanding of how neural networks work. Explore the mathematical operations performed by a single neuron. Recognize the potential of thousands of neurons connected together in a well-architected design. Finally, implement code to mathematically perform the operations in a single layer of neurons working on batch input. When you're finished, you'll have a solid grasp of the mechanisms behind neural networks and the math behind neurons.
7 videos |
50m
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Predictive Analytics: Case Studies for Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is the protection of user software from maliciously-intentioned agents and parties. Cyberattacks commonly focus on critical physical infrastructures like power plants, oil refineries, and gas pipelines. For geopolitical reasons, the cybersecurity of such installations is increasingly important. In this course, explore the use of classification models when modeling cyberattacks and the evaluation metrics for classification models. Next, examine a case study where machine learning and cybersecurity attempt to detect intrusions in a gas pipeline. Finally, investigate a case study where machine learning models are used to detect and cope with malware. Upon completion, you'll be able to identify the need for AI in cybersecurity and outline the appropriate use of evaluation metrics for classification models.
10 videos |
1h 23m
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Version & Source Control: Working With Source Control Tools
While aspiring DevOps engineers may have a background in support, they often lack exposure to the standard tools used for specific development support tasks, such as source control. In this course, you'll identify the essential features and purposes of prominent source control tools and the technical support-related situations in which to avail of them. Specifically, you'll learn to install, set up, and work with Git, GitLab, Beanstalk, Apache Subversion, AWS CodeCommit, Azure DevOps Server, Concurrent Versions System, and IBM Rational Team Concert. You'll use these tools to share and manage code and repositories, collaborate and track work, and ship applications.
16 videos |
55m
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Enterprise Architecture: Architectural Principles & Patterns
In this 18-video course, learners can explore software architecture concepts, including the view model, consumer-driven contracts, architectural patterns, and architectural styles and solution patterns used to manage common machine learning issues. Begin by examining software architecture and the benefits it provides, and then the principles that should be followed when designing architecture for applications. You will discover the 4+1 view model and associated views, and learn to recognize software architectures, and the principles of developing enterprise architecture. Recall architectural principles for business, data, and technology, and the fundamental principles guiding service-oriented architecture (SOA) and use of the SOA maturity model. Next, explore serverless architecture; Backend-as-a-Service; the features of evolutionary architecture; and learn to recognize benefits of documenting architecture. Examine the structure of a software project team; the concept and characteristics of consumer-driven contracts; the dimensions of architecture that should be coupled to provide maximize benefit with minimal overheads and costs; and activities and tasks that software architects perform. Finally, take a look at architectural patterns and styles that can be adopted to eliminate common problems.
18 videos |
1h 34m
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Enterprise Architecture: Design Architecture for Machine Learning Applications
Explore software architectures used to model machine learning (ML) applications in production, as well as the building blocks of ML reference architecture, in this 11-video course. Examine the pitfalls and building approaches for evolutionary architectures, Fitness function categories, architectural planning guidelines for ML projects, and how to set up complete ML solutions. Learners will begin by studying the basic architecture required to execute ML in enterprises, and will also take a look at software architecture and its features that can be used to model ML apps in production. Next, learn how to set up model ML apps; examine ML reference architecture and the associated building blocks; and view the approaches for building evolvable architectures and migration. Recognize the critical pitfalls of evolutionary architecture and antipatterns of technical architecture and change. Finally, observe how to set up complete ML solutions and explore the Fitness function and its associated categories. Conclude the course with an exercise on architectural planning guidelines for ML projects, with a focus on model refinement, testing, and evaluating production readiness.
11 videos |
59m
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Security Program Regulatory Integration
In this 12-video course, learners will discover the importance of integrating regulations with organizational security policies. Explore security standards such as General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR); Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA); and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), as well as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST). To begin, determine how to establish the importance of building regulatory compliance into a company's IT security program. You will then examine Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and Protected Health Information (PHI). This leads into the subject of Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), and what it entails. You will learn how HIPAA protects medical information; how GDPR protects European Union citizen data, and how the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), applies to financial institutions. You will also identify how FISMA strives to protect sensitive US Government information, and recognize both NIST and ISO security standards. To conclude the course, you will discover how the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), requires organizational financial transparency.
12 videos |
38m
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Risk Analysis: Security Risk Management
In this 14-video course, learners can explore security risk management concepts and discover how to assess, categorize, monitor, and respond to organizational risks. Examine key terms such as threats, vulnerabilities, impacts, and risks, and the steps involved in the National Institute of Standard and Technology (NIST), risk management framework (RMF). Begin by learning how risk relates to information systems, and look at the concepts of managing risks, differentiating between threats, vulnerabilities, impacts, and risks. Examine the first step of the NIST RMF, categorizing risk, and then the second RMF step, selecting security controls. Next, observe the third step, implementing security controls; the fourth step, assessing security control effectiveness; the fifth step, examining risk, and output of security controls assessment to determine whether or not the risk is acceptable; and the last step, monitoring controls. Recognize benefits of a control-focused risk management approach; the benefits of an event-focused risk management approach; and risk communication. Finally, explore risk response and remediation, and differentiating between different risk responses such as accepting, avoiding, mitigating, sharing, or transferring risk.
14 videos |
38m
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Security Architect: Secure Coding Concepts
Explore secure coding from the standpoint of a security architect, including best practices for both security design and architecture implementation, and the level of influence needed by a security architect to influence secure coding practices, in this 14-video course. Key concepts covered in this course include principles that define a security architecture; examining the issues and steps involved in security design; and learning the process and potential security flaws in security architecture implementation. Next, you will learn about considerations for deploying and operating an application in secure environments; learn methods and tools that can be used to help secure software through automation and testing; and learn approaches to assessing the risk of an application. Continue by examining the lifecycle of vulnerabilities in software; common coding pitfalls that lead to security vulnerabilities; and industry standards and the application domains they apply to. Finally, you will learn security concerns when adopting new technologies, coding languages, and platforms; learn secure coding architecture when deploying cloud applications; and learn practical approaches to secure coding practices.
14 videos |
56m
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Security Software Assessments
In this 13-video course, learners will discover techniques used to perform software security assessments and testing, including components of a security assessment, test strategy approaches, security control and software testing, and the security management process. Key concepts covered in this course include the major components of a security assessment and test strategies approaches; security control review methods including log and code reviews; and how to recognize security control testing mechanisms such as code testing. Next, learn the importance of a security management process and its common functions; learn steps to take to properly test software to ensure that it is secure; and learn methods to detect potential software vulnerabilities. Then learn common software vulnerabilities such as buffer overflow and injection flaws; learn how to avoid common software vulnerabilities by using secure coding techniques; and explore steps and techniques to analyze risk. Finally, learn about penetration testing and its purpose; and learn microservices, a mini-application that focuses on a specific task, and application programming interfaces (APIs) and highlight security concerns associated with each.
13 videos |
55m
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Mitigating Security Risks: Cyber Security Risks
Effective cybersecurity risk management requires intricate knowledge of day-to-day IT security risks, network vulnerabilities, and cyber attacks. In this course, you'll detail several cybersecurity breaches and how best to prevent each one. You'll start with a general overview of what comprises security risks before categorizing different types into information, cloud, and data-related risks. Next, you'll explore cybercrime methods, the motivations behind them, and the security gaps that invite them in. You'll then use real-life examples to detail some commonplace cyberattacks and crimes. Moving on, you'll investigate what's meant by malware and outline best practices to manage worms, viruses, logic bombs, trojans, and rootkits. You'll also learn how to safeguard against malware, spyware, ransomware, adware, phishing, zero-day vulnerabilities, DoS, and backdoor attacks. By the end of the course, you'll be able to outline guidelines and best practices for securing against the most prevalent types of cybercrimes.
13 videos |
1h 16m
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Mitigating Security Risks: Information, Cloud, & Data Security Risk Considerations
To keep your organization's data secure, you need to know why your data is at risk and how to protect it using established principles and standards. In this course, you'll explore commonly used techniques to compromise data and how international best practices can help protect against these breaches. You'll start by examining three fundamental information security principles, which define information security policy and help identify risks. You'll then outline data breach methods and identify the targets of these threats. Next, you'll investigate what's meant by 'the human factor' and why it's key to any attack. You'll then study how technologies to secure data and information work under the hood. Moving on, you'll outline primary worldwide information security regulations and governance frameworks. Lastly, you'll examine why the ISO 27017 cloud security principles need to be considered when formulating a cloud security risk management plan.
11 videos |
55m
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Cloud Security Administration: Infrastructure Planning
Cloud infrastructure consists of the physical location of the cloud data center. Depending on the data center location, there are different risks that are taken by the service provider and different methods used to tackle security issues. A secure cloud is created by using open source software and creating a technical support pool. Additionally, basic security concepts like protecting data in motion and in rest using encryption can be employed so that clients can only see their data. In this course, you'll learn about baselining cloud infrastructure, different components like hardware and software, and challenges faced in cloud environments.
13 videos |
55m
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Ethical Hacker: Security Standards
Ethical hacking is not just random hacking attempts; it is a systematic testing of the target's security. For that reason, an understanding of security standards and formal testing methodologies is critical. Key concepts covered in this 11-video course include security standards such as NIST 800-115, a security standard which is integrally interconnected with ethical hacking and testing; and NIST 800-53, a security standard that can help users to professionalize and improve an ethical hacking test. Next, learn how to properly apply filtering and data validation; how to apply the NSA-IAM to ethical hacking to plan, execute, and report on your ethical hacking project; and how to apply the PTES to ethical hacking to plan, execute, and report on your ethical hacking project. Then learn about PCI-DSS standards and how to integrate them into ethical hacking; learn how to implement ISO 27001; and learn to interpret and apply NIST 800-12. Finally, learners observe how to employ NIST 800-26 standards to manage IT security; and learn about NIST 800-14 security protocols.
11 videos |
39m
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Ethical Hacker: Secure Technology & Applications
Security devices and software are the technical aspect of security. An ethical hacker must be familiar with security technology in order to effectively conduct tests of the target organization's network. In this 10-video course, you will explore firewall types and usage, SIEM systems, intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems (IDS/IPS), antivirus strategies, Windows Firewall, and how to implement Snort. Key concepts covered in this course include security devices and software concepts, and how they relate to ethical hacking; learning to correctly deploy firewall solutions, their relevance to ethical hacking, and different types and usage; and learning the role of SIEM (security information and event management) and how to deploy SIEM systems. Next, learners observe how to utilize IDS/IPS and its relationship to ethical hacking; learn antivirus concepts and implement an AV strategy; configure the firewall in Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019; and learn to configure Windows Defender. Conclude by learning how to implement basic Snort network IDS, a tool that can be used for simple packet capture or for IDS.
10 videos |
40m
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Monitoring & Securing System Configuration
In this 14-video course, you will learn how to drive system configuration monitoring by using tools to keep systems secure and the importance of monitoring system configuration within an organization for incident response. Key concepts covered here include the configuration management (CM) process and how it can influence securing system configuration for incident response; tools and software to monitor systems and their advantages for incident response; and continuous monitoring in risk management, including the three-tier approach. Next, learn the process of minor, major, and unknown configuration changes; learn the importance of securing CM processes in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) for preventing security impacts; and observe methods for identifying common high probability items, such as identifying default or weak credentials. Continue by learning to implement a secure system CM program; and how to assess the monitoring process and perform security configuration evaluations. Finally, observe methods of monitoring releases and deliveries throughout SDLC; learn security controls for monitoring system configuration in a cyber framework; and learn how monitoring system configuration is important in today's enterprise SDLC.
14 videos |
1h 16m
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PenTesting for Physical Security
This 14-video course explores physical penetration testing, and how to test a business's infrastructure, including IT assets, its data, people, and physical security to locate any exploitable vulnerabilities. In this course, you will learn why lockpicking is essential in cybersecurity, and you will examine different types of locks and lockpick tools. This course demonstrates several types of penetrations, including EM (electromagnetic security vulnerabilities), dumpster diving, and tailgating, and how to protect against these attacks. You will learn about penetration testing types, including network services, web and client applications, Cloud penetration, penetration testing of wireless networks, and social engineering. Learners will explore several penetration tools, including Kali Linux, which comes with tool such as Nmap, Wireshark, and John the Ripper; the Aircrack suite; OpenVas, and several others. You will learn about web app security testing methodologies. Learners will observe the elements of a successful report, and how to document penetration testing results. Finally, this course demonstrates practicing testing skills by using Grier Demo website.
14 videos |
1h 7m
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SecOps Engineer: Secure Coding
This 13-video course explores software protection by applying secure development and coding practices. Learners will examine secure coding key concepts, including early and frequent testing, and how to validate to ensure it is the proper kind of data, and the proper size, type, and format. First, the course demonstrates how to set up a simple filtering statement to improve software security. You will learn how to constrain user input, by implementing a drop-down box or radio buttons. You will also learn the top 10 rules established by CERT (Computer Emergency Response Team) for secure programming, and how to operationalize secure software deployments, as well as continuous secure delivery to quickly update changes and upgrades. Learners will explore verification, and secure validation software metrics to measure and improve software. You will learn to use C# code, evaluate both secure and unsecure parts, for the web and Windows code, and learn to secure code with Python. Finally, you will learn to secure code with Java.
13 videos |
51m
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SecOps Engineer: Security Engineering
Explore fundaments of cybersecurity and engineering in this 10-video course, which examines the fundamental concepts of the CIA (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) triangle, and views security operations, security planning, engineering, application security through these three concepts. First, learners will examine the more advanced version: the McCumber Cube. You will learn to integrate systems engineering into cybersecurity, and explore requirements engineering, and how to gather requirements. Next, learn how to analyze them, to apply security requirements engineering techniques, and to finalize project requirements. You will be introduced to SecML (Security Modeling Language) which takes SysML (System Modeling Language) used by systems engineers, and to modify portions of it to be specific to cybersecurity. You will examine how SecML can be used to create both offensive and defensive security mitigation controls. This course examines security metrics, and how to apply engineering failure analysis methods to cybersecurity. Finally, you will observe how to incorporate security requirements engineering into cybersecurity, and the relevance of regulatory requirements.
10 videos |
33m
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CISM 2022: Information Security Governance
The best way to improve the enterprise security stance is to align IT security solutions with business objectives. In this course, you will consider how information security must align with business strategies. You will explore the business model for information security and review the importance of identifying and classifying assets critical to a business. Next, you will learn about supply chain security, personnel management, and the components of an information security program. You will discover the relationship between service-level agreements (SLAs) and organizational objectives and discuss the relevance of change and configuration management. Then, consider how to develop organizational security policies. Lastly, explore expense types, chain of custody, organizational culture, and how the Control Objectives for Information Technologies (COBIT) framework applies to IT governance. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
16 videos |
1h 40m
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CISM 2022: Security Standards
Global and local security standards, including laws and regulations, are an important input to determine how enterprises deploy and manage security controls. In this course, you will learn how the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) data privacy legislation applies to any organization world-wide handling private EU citizen data. Next, you will explore various International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ISO/IEC) standards for proper data governance, followed by American data privacy and cloud security standards such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRamp). Discover how to secure cardholder data as related to Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) international security standards and review other data privacy legislation including Canada's Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and China's Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). Lastly, explore the importance of securing cloud service usage in alignment with the Cloud Controls Matrix (CCM). This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
10 videos |
53m
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CISM 2022: Managing Risk
Residual risk remains after security controls are put in place to mitigate the impact of threats. The organizational appetite for risk determines what level of residual risk is acceptable. In this course, you will explore how risk management improves business operations by minimizing the impact of realized threats. You will learn how to calculate the cost of mitigating risk compared to the value of the protected asset and determine the cost-benefit analysis and return on investment when implementing security controls. Next, discover the importance of risk assessments, especially where there are changes to some aspect of the business or a specific business process. You will then explore how various risk approaches, such as risk acceptance, avoidance, transfer, and reduction, apply to an organization's tolerance of residual risk. Lastly, discover how risk heat maps are an effective method for communicating various degrees of risk. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
9 videos |
49m
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CISM 2022: Data Privacy
Enterprises must comply with relevant laws and regulations related to data privacy. This requires recognizing applicable laws and regulations and implementing the appropriate security controls. In this course, you will explore examples of personally identifiable information (PII) and protected health information (PHI) and learn about data residency implications related to the physical storage location of sensitive data. Next, learn how to reduce the possibility of data exfiltration through data loss protection policies and how to discover and classify data using Amazon Macie and Microsoft Purview governance. Then you will learn to configure data classification on the Microsoft Windows server platform and tag cloud resources for classification purposes. Lastly, explore how to configure Microsoft Azure storage account encryption using a customer-managed key. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
10 videos |
56m
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CISM 2022: Assessing Risk
Assessing risk is a crucial activity that enables organizations to evaluate risk exposure for business processes and assets. In this course, you will begin by exploring how to conduct vulnerability assessments and how the results can shed light on security control deficiencies. Next, you will learn how to perform a network vulnerability assessment and review the results, followed by scanning a web application for web app-specific vulnerabilities. You will discover how to conduct a gap analysis to determine the current security posture compared to a desired security posture. Then, you will explore the important aspects of when and how to run penetration tests. Lastly, you will see how to configure Microsoft Azure Policy assignments to determine cloud resource configuration compliance. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
8 videos |
45m
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CISM 2022: Common Network Security Threats
Some security controls are very specific to the threat that they address. Information security managers must be well versed in common network security threats in order to minimize the impact of realized threats on business processes. In this course, you will start by exploring various types of threat actors and their motivation for attacking networks. You will review industry standards related to categorizing threats, including common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs), the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base, and the OWASP Top 10 web application security attacks. Next, you will learn how bug bounties are paid by companies to ensure the utmost in security for their products, which can influence customer choices. You will discover how various types of network attacks are executed including Wi-Fi attacks, SYN flood attacks, buffer overflow attacks, advanced persistent threats (APTs), and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Lastly, you will see how VPN anonymizer solutions and the Tor web browser can be used for anonymous network connectivity for legitimate as well as illegal purposes. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
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1h 14m
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CISM 2022: Data Protection with Cryptography
Cryptography provides solutions for ensuring data privacy and integrity. Various firmware and software solutions protect data in transit and data at rest. In this course, you will explore the CIA security triad and how it relates to the organization's security program. You will then review various cryptography solutions and discuss data integrity to assure that tampering has not occurred. Next, you will learn how Hardware Security Module (HSM) appliances and Trusted Platform Module (TPM) firmware provide cryptographic services. You will see how Transport Layer Security (TLS) supersedes the deprecated Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) network security protocol suite followed by discussing virtual private network (VPN) encrypted network tunnels, and the IP Security (IPsec) network security protocol suite. Lastly, you will explore the PKI hierarchy and how public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates are used for digital security throughout the certificate life cycle. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
12 videos |
1h 5m
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CISM 2022: Applied Cryptography
The periodic evaluation of the efficacy of cryptographic solutions is possible only with an understanding of how cryptography secures digital environments. In this course, you will explore data integrity by hashing files on the Linux and Windows platforms in an effort to detect unauthorized changes. You will configure a web application HTTPS binding to secure network communications to and from the web application. Then you will deploy a private certificate authority (CA), manage certificate templates, and deploy public key infrastructure (PKI) certificates. Next, you will configure a web application to require trusted client certificates. Finally, you will encrypt data at rest on Linux, on Windows with Encrypting File System (EFS), and Microsoft Bitlocker, and you will configure a cloud VPN connection and implement IPsec on Windows. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
14 videos |
1h 16m
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CISM 2022: Secure Device & OS Management
IT departments must work in conjunction with higher-level management to determine when and how to securely use technological solutions that support the business strategy. In this course, begin by exploring how mobile device usage in a business environment can introduce risk and how that risk can be managed with centralized remote wipe capabilities. Then find out how Microsoft Intune can be used to centrally manage devices and how to securely wipe a disk partition. Learn how to harden Windows computers using Group Policy and disable the deprecated SSL network security protocol on Windows hosts. Next, investigate common digital forensics hardware and software solutions, as well as the storage area network (SAN) security and jump box solutions to manage hosts securely and remotely. Finally, discover how to manage Azure resources permissions using managed identities, examine device and OS hardening techniques, and investigate the importance of firmware and software patching. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
16 videos |
1h 38m
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OWASP Top 10: Discovering & Exploiting Web App Vulnerabilities
There are almost two billion web sites in the world today. Many of these sites are not sufficiently protected against attacks. In this course, you'll begin by learning how to install a sample vulnerable web application. Next, you'll explore how to use reconnaissance methods, such as nmap scanning and web app scanning using OWASP ZAP, to discover HTTP hosts and vulnerable applications. You'll learn how to execute attacks including XSS, CSRF, file injection, and denial of service. You'll move on to examine how to capture user keystrokes using a hardware keylogger and capture cleartext HTTP transmissions. Lastly, you'll learn how to forge fake TCP/IP packets and then deploy and secure a cloud-hosted web application.
14 videos |
1h 18m
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Secure Programmer: Security Concepts
This 6-video course guides learners to discover the basics of secure programming, including common security concepts, authentication and authorization, and shows how to avoid common programming errors that can undermine security, as well as how to incorporate validation and verification into programming. These are the core security concepts that you need to master to ensure that your programs are produced in a secure fashion. To begin, you will examine secure programmer security concepts, including confidentiality, integrity, and availability, known as the CIA triangle, least privileges, and separation of duties. The next tutorial covers secure programmer authentication and authorization, looking at general authentication models such as discretionary access controls (DACs), mandatory access control (MAC), rule-based access control (RBAC), and attribute-based access control (ABAC). Next, you will explore and learn how to avoid common programming errors that can undermine security. The final tutorial in this course looks at the process and techniques of secure programming verification and validation.
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24m
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SSCP 2021: Secure Protocols & Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
Early on in the development of TCP/IP and the application layer protocols and services, it was decided not no build native security but rather to add new secure mechanisms and protocols. The aim was to maintain internetworking and interoperability without adding too much overhead. Knowing how these protocols work and how you can implement them will change how you protect your organization's information. Use this course to get abreast of some of the most vital secure protocols and their implementation along with other core services, such as key management, web of trust (WOT), and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Upon course completion, you'll be able to detail how and why these protocols and services are used. This course will help you in the lead-up to taking the (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) 2021 exam.
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38m
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SSCP 2021: Fundamental Networking Concepts
Historically speaking, the vast majority of security practitioners, technicians, engineers, and architects come from the field of local and wide area networking. This factor, as well as the importance of protecting data-in-transit, makes networking a critical knowledge area. Use this course to get to grips with several networking concepts and methodologies. Learn to distinguish between the OSI and TCP/IP reference models. Explore network topologies, relationships, and media types. See what's meant by software-defined networking (SDN), Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS), and terminal access controller access-control system plus (TACACS+), among other terms. Examine commonly used ports and protocols. And look into remote access connectivity and virtual private networks (VPNs). Upon course completion, you'll be familiar with several fundamental networking concepts and network access control methodologies. You'll also be further prepared for the (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) 2021 exam.
9 videos |
50m
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