712 Cyber Instructor Advanced KSAT Journey

The world of technology continues to transform at a rapid pace, with intelligent technology incorporated at every stage of the business process. Intelligent information systems (IIS) reduce the need for routine human labor and allow companies to focus instead on hiring creative professionals. In this course, you'll explore the present and future roles of intelligent informational systems in AI development, recognizing the current demand for IIS specialists. You'll list several possible IIS applications and learn about the roles AI and ML play in creating them. Next, you'll identify significant components of IIS and the purpose of these components. You'll examine how you would go about creating a self-driving vehicle using IIS components. Finally, you'll work with Python libraries to build high-level components of a Markov decision process.

There are several cloud computing fundamental definitions, characteristics, and building block technologies each CCSP candidate should know. Learn about these and other core cloud computing concepts in this CCSP course. Explore the core fundamentals, core concepts, and technologies of cloud computing, such as cloud roles and responsibilities, broad network access, virtualization, and others. Next, study cloud computing's shared considerations and value propositions, including interoperability, agility, security, resiliency, performance, and more. Finally, examine the impact of cloud and related technologies like data science, artificial intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), DevSecOps, and others. This is one of a collection of courses that fully prepares the learner for the (ISC)² Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) 2022 exam.

Today, technology drives efficiency in business by making it easier for people to work together. Discover collaboration solutions including public folders, distribution groups, scheduling, and linked and site mailboxes.

IT technicians and managers are responsible for the safety of IT processing systems and sensitive data. Information system audit processes, if applied effectively, can ensure adequate risk mitigation. In this course, you will explore auditing scenarios, beginning with IT key performance indicators (KPIs), audit planning, and security control cost-effectiveness. Then, you'll learn how to determine Wi-Fi weakness and secure traveling users. Finally, you'll dig into key usage and compensating control selection. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

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

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

In any enterprise information technology environment, network and IT assets must be secured in order to preserve the integrity and legal standing of the organization. In this course, you will discover key aspects of securing networks and IT assets, beginning with network attacks, network threat mitigation, firewalls, and security monitoring and testing. Then you will explore the identification of plaintext network traffic, implementation of a packet filtering firewall, and implementation of a content filtering firewall. Finally, you will learn about physical asset protection, focusing on heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, physical security, drones and proximity security, and fire suppression systems. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

Virtualization is such an important technology today that it is rather surprising that a little more than a decade ago, it was not given much consideration as a practical way of providing cloud-based services. Today, it is difficult to imagine life without virtualization. In this course, you will explore virtualization and cloud computing, beginning with an overview of virtualization technologies, hypervisors, and virtual network switches. Then you will dig into creating a virtual machine and hardening a virtualized environment. Next, you will investigate cloud computing, common cloud service offerings, and cloud security. Finally, you will learn about Windows cloud-based virtual machines, Linux cloud-based virtual machines, and cloud endpoint security. This course helps prepare learners for the ISACA certification exam, Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA).

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

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

Security risk management involves the continual process of identifying security risks and implementing strategy and tactics to mitigate them. It is a vital component of any organization's strategy to protect its assets, ensure regulatory compliance, maintain operational continuity, and safeguard its reputation. Begin this course by exploring threat and vulnerability identification, as well as risk analysis, assessment, and response. Next, you will discover control categories, types, and assessments. Then you will investigate continuous monitoring and measurement and risk management reporting. Finally, you will examine continuous improvement and risk frameworks as you gain the essential skills to protect and secure your organization's critical resources. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

For the CISSP exam, one must be able to understand a variety of security design principles and practices. The topics in this course cover the following Domain 3 objectives: research, implement, and manage engineering processes using secure design principles and understand the fundamental concepts of security models. Begin by exploring the importance of least privilege and defense in depth to create multi-layered security defenses and restrict access to sensitive information. You will then look at concepts of segregation of duties (SOD), keeping it simple and small, and privacy by default and design. Next, you will consider how the shared responsibility model is crucial for participants to grasp the roles and accountability in cloud and collaborative environments. You will also explore threat modeling techniques to identify, evaluate, and mitigate potential security threats. Finally, you will compare zero trust vs. trust, explore the secure access service edge (SASE) framework, and consider the fundamental concepts of security models such as Bell-LaPadula, Biba, Star, and Clark-Wilson. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

In the digital era, understanding network protocols and their impact on performance is crucial for IT professionals tasked with maintaining robust and efficient communication systems. This course is the first of two courses that cover a large part of CISSP Domain 4. In this course the learner will focus on several aspects of secure design principles in network architectures including OSI and TCP/IP protocols for IPv4 and IPv6, secure protocols, multilayer protocol implications, converged protocols, transport architectures, performance metrics, and traffic flows. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

In today's increasingly complex threat landscape, securing physical sites and facilities is paramount for safeguarding assets, data, and personnel. This course covers secure design principles in network architectures beginning with an exploration of physical and logical segmentation and microsegmentation. Next you will dig into edge networks, including peering and ingress/egress. You will compare types of wireless networks and explore cellular and mobile networks. Next you will discover the roles of content distribution networks (CDNs), software-defined networks (SDNs), and virtual private clouds (VPCs) in security design. Finally, you will explore security monitoring and management. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.

A security audit is a comprehensive assessment of an organization's information systems. Typically, they measure the systems and applications against an audit checklist of industry best practices, externally established standards, and/or federal regulations. In this course, differentiate internal, external, and third-party auditing and learn about locations for auditing and controls testing, the purpose of a vulnerability assessment, and the basics of penetration testing. Next, explore log reviews and log data, code review and testing techniques, and compare synthetic transactions, benchmark, and misuse case testing. Finally, examine coverage analysis concepts, compare interface testing methods, and discover the purpose of compliance checks. This course helps prepare learners for the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) exam.