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711 Cyber Instructional Curriculum Developer KSAT Intermediate NCWF Journey
- 37 Courses | 38h 50m 1s
Develops, plans, coordinates, and evaluates cyber training/education courses, methods, and techniques based on instructional needs.
711 Cyber Instructional Curriculum Developer KSAT Intermediate
Develops, plans, coordinates, and evaluates cyber training/education courses, methods, and techniques based on instructional needs.
- 37 Courses | 38h 50m 1s
COURSES INCLUDED
Cognitive Models: Overview of Cognitive Models
To implement cognitive modeling inside AI systems, a developer needs to understand the major differences between commonly used cognitive models and their best qualities. Today cognitive models are actively utilized in healthcare, neuroscience, manufacturing and psychology and their importance compared to other AI approaches is expected to rise. Developing a firm understanding of cognitive modeling and its use cases is essential to anyone involved in creating AI systems. In this course, you'll identify unique features of cognitive models, which help create even more intelligent software systems. First you will learn about the different types of cognitive models and the disciplines involved in cognitive modeling. Further, you will discover main use cases for cognitive models in the modern world and learn about the history of cognitive modeling and how it is related to computer science and AI.
14 videos |
36m
Assessment
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Cognitive Models: Approaches to Cognitive Learning
Practice plays an important role in AI development and helps one get familiarized with commonly used tools and frameworks. Knowing which methods to apply and when is critical to completing projects quickly and efficiently. Based on code examples provided, you will be able to quickly learn important cognitive modeling libraries and apply this knowledge to new projects in the field. In this course, you'll learn the essentials of working with cognitive models in a software system. First, you will get a detailed overview of each type of learning used in cognitive modeling. Further, you will learn about the toolset used for cognitive modeling with Python and recall which role cognitive models play in AI and business. Finally, you will go through various cognitive model implementations to develop skills necessary to implement cognitive modeling in real world.
13 videos |
43m
Assessment
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Microsoft Azure Security Technologies: Data Classification
This 17-video course explores how to organize and secure sensitive data by using data classification, as part of preparations for AZ-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies certification exam. First, learners will examine the PCI-DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard), and laws and regulations of the European Union GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) to protect data. You will examine how to add tags to Microsoft Azure cloud resources in the Azure portal GUI (graphical user interface), and with PowerShell. Next, learn how DLP (data loss prevention) is used to control sensitive data. You will install AIP (Azure Information Protection) client, and learn to add labels to your data to organize it for security purposes. This course demonstrates how to use AIP in MS Word. You will learn to view protected data statistics. Finally, you will learn how to configure blob lifecycle settings, and blob container policies by using the portal.
17 videos |
53m
Assessment
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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
Assessment
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CompTIA Cloud Essentials+: Gap Analysis & Cloud Assessment
Cloud assessment helps derive business service models facilitating robust and cost-effective business and IT cloud service consumption and delivery. You'll start this course by examining the steps in a cloud readiness assessment before exploring the cloud transformation maturity model's stages and some potential transformation challenges. You'll then outline how to assess your current technology stack to determine cloud readiness and feasibility. Next, you'll investigate the business value of cloud adoption and of incorporating cloud into enterprise architectures. You'll then examine the cloud capability maturity model, the primary cloud considerations for business, and the technology and infrastructure architecture to achieve an appropriate cloud transformation strategy. Finally, you'll explore some gap analysis activities, the transition planning phase of cloud adoption, diagrams that depict various cloud architectures, and the cloud adoption framework's value. You can use this course in preparation for the CompTIA Cloud Essentials+ (CLO-002) certification exam.
14 videos |
1h 25m
Assessment
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Cloud Future: Adapting Cloud Innovation
The impact of future trends allow you to recognize how to build cloud-based applications and architectures that can adopt and adapt to emerging trends, technologies, and processes. In this course, you'll explore future trends in cloud computing and emerging technologies that can help with analyzing their impact on existing cloud operations and practices. You'll learn about solutioning strategies and resource types that can help with adopting emerging technologies and trending features in existing CloudOps architectures. Next, you'll examine cloud application design considerations and the inside-out and outside-in development strategies that can help with adopting and adapting to any futuristic upgrades. You'll learn about how to handle states at the service level, system architecture design considerations, and the use of Adapter pattern to build architectures that adopt and adapt to futuristic innovations. You'll examine the Minimum Valuable Increment design approach, the Manifesto for Future Generation Cloud Computing, and the manifesto areas that are relevant for aligning with the future research directions.
14 videos |
1h
Assessment
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CompTIA CASP+: IT Governance & Security Compliance
IT governance involves ensuring that business and regulatory compliance needs are met by IT solutions. In this course, you'll learn to identify common data privacy standards and regulations, as well as various types of business agreements. Next, you'll learn to classify personally identifiable information using various methods including Macie for data discovery and classification. You'll explore how to use Azure Information Protection to enable DLP and tag cloud resources to facilitate resource management. You'll then examine how to securely wipe a storage device and identify common organization security policies. Lastly, you'll learn how to identify data roles and configure cloud data retention. This course is one of a collection of courses that prepares learners for the CompTIA Advanced Security Practitioner (CASP+) CAS-004 exam.
12 videos |
1h 7m
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+: 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+: 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 CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ exam.
9 videos |
52m
Assessment
Badge
CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+: Hardening Techniques
Hardening refers to attack surface reduction in IT environments and can be applied to any type of device or software environment, including storage area networks (SANs). Firmware and software patches should be applied to ensure that potential security flaws in code have been addressed. In this course, I will begin by covering hardening techniques for a variety of IT environments, followed by using Microsoft Group Policy to configure security settings for Active Directory domain-joined computers. Next, I will discuss storage area networks and related security considerations. I will then remove the need for virtual machine (VM) public IP addresses by allowing remote access through Microsoft Azure Bastion. I will discuss the importance of applying hardware and software patches. Lastly, I will install and configure a Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server and deploy updates to Microsoft Azure virtual machines. This course can be used to prepare for the CS0-003: CompTIA Cybersecurity Analyst+ exam.
10 videos |
56m
Assessment
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CompTIA Network+: Well-known Ports & Protocols
In terms of computer networks, protocols are used to provide a required set of rules that enable computers to exchange information. Well-known Internet protocols include Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, User Datagram Protocol/Internet Protocol, File Transfer Protocol, and Hypertext Transfer Protocol. Ports, by comparison, are used to identify a type of network or specific process. Port numbers, ranging from 0 to 65535, are typically divided into three categories - well-known ports, dynamic ports, and registered ports. In this course, you'll learn about the most commonly-known ports in use on a computer network today. These include File Transfer Protocol, Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, Domain Name System, and Hypertext Transfer Protocol. You'll examine how HTTP uses the reserved port 80 and enables computers to send and receive Web client-based communication and messages from a Web server, including web site pages and data. Next, you'll explore other key ports including, port 25, reserved for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and how SMTP allows e-mail clients and services to send out e-mails. You'll learn how port 100, reserved for Post Office Protocol v3 and port 143, reserved for Internet Message Access Protocol, allow for e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail messages from a mail server over a TCP/IP connection. Lastly, you'll learn about Secure Sockets Layer and how it can be incorporated into POP3 and IMAP implementations to enable more secure encrypted e-mail communications
23 videos |
2h 39m
Assessment
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CompTIA PenTest+: Network Attacks & Exploits
Network attacks are commonly performed to gain unauthorized access to an organization's network, with a goal of performing malicious activity or stealing data. In this course, you'll learn how to research attack vectors and perform network attacks. You'll learn about password attacks such as password spraying, hash cracking, brute force, and dictionary. You'll explore how to perform common network attacks such as ARP poisoning, on-path, kerberoasting, virtual local area network hopping, as well as Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution and NetBIOS Name Service poisoning. Finally, you'll explore common network attack tools such as Metasploit, Netcat, and Nmap. This course is one of a collection that helps prepare learners for the CompTIA PenTest+ (PT0-002) certification exam.
19 videos |
2h 6m
Assessment
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CompTIA Security+: Analyzing Application & Network Attacks
It is crucial that you be able to recognize various application and network attacks and be able to protect your infrastructure from them. In this course, you'll learn to analyze different application attacks such as privilege escalation, cross-site scripting, request forgery, injection, code, and APIs. You'll also look at other attacks like SSL stripping, pass the hash, and driver manipulation. Then, you'll move on to explore a variety of network attacks, including wireless, man-in-the-middle, Layer 2, DNS, DDoS, and malicious code or script execution. This course can be used in preparation for the CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 certification exam.
15 videos |
55m
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CompTIA Security+: Security Assessment & Penetration Testing Techniques
It is important for security professionals to be aware of various security assessment and penetration testing techniques and methods. In this course, explore key assessment techniques like intelligence fusion, threat hunting, threat feeds, advisories and bulletins, vulnerability scans, and false positives/false negatives. You will also examine the fundamentals of penetration testing including black/blue/gray box methodologies, lateral movement , privilege escalation, persistence, and pivoting. Other topics include passive and active reconnaissance as well as the different exercise teams. This course can be used in preparation for the CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 certification exam.
12 videos |
36m
Assessment
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CompTIA Security+: Security Policies, Regulations, Standards, & Frameworks
Whether you're an employee or contractor, this CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 course will have something you can use to improve the organizational security at your workplace. You'll start by examining security topics related to the hiring to release process, such as background checks and investigations, non-disclosure agreements, acceptable use policy, and onboarding and offboarding. You'll move on to explore further personnel policies, including job rotation, mandatory vacations, separation of duties, clean desk space, and social media usage. You'll then recognize some useful security awareness practices, such as phishing simulations, computer-based training, role-based training, and diversity training techniques. Finally, you'll identify various business agreements, account types, regulations, and governance, such as GDPR, PCI DSS, CIS, NIST, and ISO. This course is part of a series that prepares the learner for the CompTIA Security+ (SY0-601) exam.
10 videos |
45m
Assessment
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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
Assessment
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Threat Intelligence & Attribution Best Practices: Threat Intelligence Concepts
Identifying and interpreting threat intelligence is crucial to preventing and mitigating cyber attacks. In this course, you'll explore the various threat intelligence types and how they relate to an organization's threat landscape. You'll begin by examining the key characteristics and benefits of threat intelligence and how to use it before, during, and after an attack. You'll then name known cyber threat actors and common indicators of compromise. You'll characterize intelligence, data, and information, and the four categories of threat intelligence: strategic, tactical, operational, and technical. You'll outline the threat intelligence lifecycle and how machine learning and risk modeling relate to threat intelligence. Lastly, you'll recognize threat intelligence use cases and sources, and how to map the threat landscape and benefit from intrusion detection and analysis.
20 videos |
1h 38m
Assessment
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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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Data Access & Governance Policies: Data Classification, Encryption, & Monitoring
Explore how data classification determines which security measures apply to varying classes of data. This 12-video course classifies data into a couple of main categories, internal data and sensitive data. You will learn to classify data by using Microsoft FSRM (File Server Resource Manager), a role service in Windows Server that enables you to manage and classify data stored on file servers. Learners will explore different tools used to safeguard sensitive information, such as data encryption. You will learn how to enable Microsoft BitLocker, a full volume encryption feature included with Microsoft Windows, to encrypt data at rest. An important aspect of data access governance is securing data that is being transmitted over a network, and you will learn to configure a VPN (virtual private network) using Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager. You will learn to configure a Custom Filtered Log View using MS Windows Event Viewer to track user access to a database. Finally, you will learn to audit file access on an MS Windows Server 2016 host.
13 videos |
1h 18m
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Technology Landscape & Tools for Data Management
This Skillsoft Aspire course explores various tools you can utilize to get better data analytics for your organization. You will learn the important factors to consider when selecting tools, velocity, the rate of incoming data, volume, the storage capacity or medium, and the diversified nature of data in different formats. This course discusses the various tools available to provide the capability of implementing machine learning, deep learning, and to provide AI capabilities for better data analytics. The following tools are discussed: TensorFlow, Theano, Torch, Caffe, Microsoft cognitive tool, OpenAI, DMTK from Microsoft, Apache SINGA, FeatureFu, DL4J from Java, Neon, and Chainer. You will learn to use SCIKIT-learn, a machine learning library for Python, to implement machine learning, and how to use machine learning in data analytics. This course covers how to recognize the capabilities provided by Python and R in the data management cycle. Learners will explore Python; the libraries NumPy, SciPy, Pandas to manage data structures; and StatsModels. Finally, you will examine the capabilities of machine learning implementation in the cloud.
9 videos |
26m
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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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Command Line Interface
Discover how to set up the Cloud Foundry command line interface, or cf CLI, environment to interact with Cloud Foundry components and manage them effectively.
13 videos |
1h 3m
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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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SecOps Engineer: System Infrastructure Security
This 13-video course explores SecOps (security and operations) engineering concepts. Learners will observe how security and operations are fused together, and learn to integrate system infrastructure security with normal business operations by applying engineering principles. Begin by learning the steps for infrastructure hardening of the operating system, including server workstations, routers, devices. You will examine server hardening, including how to turn off unneeded services, and remove unneeded software. Next, learn how to analyze and harden Windows 10, and to use security devices, and implement intrusion detection and prevention systems. You will examine the practical use of IDS (intrusion detection system) to detect activity that appears to be a possible intrusion, to log it, and to notify the administrator. You will then examine IPS (intrusion prevention system), which takes the additional step of shutting down the suspicious activity. Finally, you will explore firewall concepts, including stateless firewalls, how to use SPI (stateful packet inspection), and how to place them to improve your security network.
13 videos |
1h
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CCSP 2019: Implementing Data Discovery & Classification
Proper data governance begins with labeling data and applying security controls based on those labels. Explore information rights management (IRM) and challenges associated with data discovery, as well as the roles played by PKI (public key infrastructure) security certificates and virtual private networks (VPNs) in the cloud. This 6-video course prepares learners for the (ISC)2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) exam. Begin with IRM objectives such as data rights, provisioning, and access models. Examine data discovery approaches and techniques for structured and unstructured data, and challenges of data discovery in the cloud. Then examine data classification, enabled by using Microsoft Azure Information protection for sensitive data such as Protected Health Information (PHI) and Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and cardholder data. Recognize how PKI provides security for digital IT solutions; how to use PowerShell to create PKI certificates; and how to generate certificates in a Microsoft Azure Key Vault. Learn how VPNs are used for secure cloud resource access. Then configure a Microsoft Azure point-to-site VPN and a custom Microsoft Azure Key Vault key for storage account encryption.
12 videos |
42m
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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: 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 Attacks
Security technicians can benefit significantly by executing network security attacks in a controlled environment. This allows for an in-depth periodic review of security control efficacy related to IT networks. In this course, you will discover how networks can be scanned by attackers seeking potentially vulnerable services using free tools such as Nmap. You will then explore how attackers can compromise a user web browser, how SQL injection attacks can reveal more information than intended by the app designer, and how to configure a reverse shell where the compromised station reaches out to the attacker station, often defeating standard firewall rule sets. Next, you will learn how to spoof network traffic and execute a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Lastly, you will discover how to brute force a Windows remote desktop protocol (RDP) connection to gain access to a Windows host. This course can be used to prepare for the Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) exam.
9 videos |
49m
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Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) 2019: Data Classification
This 12-video course explores the different roles played by data classification in the software development lifecycle. You will learn the differences between data owners and data custodians. While data remain the property of the enterprise or organization, data ownership is used to assign responsibility to the person who defines the requirements related to the data, and will manage the data day-to-day requirements. Data custodians are responsible for ensuring that security and access controls are configured and maintained properly. You will learn how labeling data adds extra data to describe the data being protected, which refers to metadata. This course focuses on two types of data, structured and unstructured, and the importance to the secure software lifecycle. Learners will recognize that data type is one of the key factors that determine how data should be secured. This course can be used in preparation for the (ISC)2 CSSLP: Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional certification exam.
6 videos |
21m
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Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional (CSSLP) 2019: Technologies
In this 13-video course, learners can explore best practices for securing commonly used architecture and technologies such as virtualization, databases, and the programming language environment. First, learn the three steps involved in authentication and identity management. Next, earn the principles of Credential Management and protecting credentials used for authentication, including passwords, tokens, biometrics, and certificates. Learners will then examine logging or recording a user's actions within a system, and data flow control methods. Next, learn about data loss prevention as an in-depth security strategy that encompasses many different technologies. Learn how virtualization allows for software to be hosted in a virtual environment. Learners will then examine digit rights management (DMR), which restricts access to content that is not local to secure digital content, and protect intellectual property. Finally, the course explores the basis of trusted computing-the hardware, software, and firmware components critical to securing a system which includes discussion of programming language and operating systems. This course may be used in preparation for the (ISC)2 CSSLP: Certified Secure Software Lifecycle Professional certification exam.
13 videos |
1h 1m
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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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SSCP 2021: Secure Virtual & Cloud Environments
The security landscape changes in tandem with the evolution of technology. As virtualization and cloud computing have emerged, so have associated security tools, techniques, and regulations. Ensure your security knowledge is up-to-date with this advanced exam preparatory course. Learn about hypervisors, virtual appliances, and containers. Examine continuity and resilience, attacks and countermeasures, and legal and regulatory concerns. Explore what's involved in shared and data storage, deployment and service models, processing, and transmission. Delve into third-party/outsourcing requirements, data portability, data destruction, and auditing. And finally, investigate the cloud computing shared responsibility model. When you're done, you'll know how to secure technologies related to virtualization and cloud computing. You'll also be further prepared for the (ISC)² Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP) 2021 exam.
8 videos |
41m
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