Analyze, Create, and Secure Data with Zero Trust

Overview

Ever wondered why data breaches keep happening despite massive security investments? The answer lies in moving beyond perimeter defense to a comprehensive zero-trust approach that assumes breach and verifies everything. This Short Course was created to help Machine Learning and AI professionals accomplish enterprise-grade data security that protects against both external threats and insider risks. By completing this course, you'll master the critical investigative skills to identify why breaches occur, architect security systems that never trust by default, and systematically evaluate your defenses against the gold standards that regulators and customers demand. By the end of this course, you will be able to: • Analyze incident reports to determine root causes of data breaches • Create a zero-trust data security architecture • Evaluate security controls and practices against industry standards and compliance requirements This course is unique because it combines post-incident forensics with proactive architecture design, ensuring you can both respond to security failures and prevent them from happening again. You'll work with real breach scenarios, design authentication frameworks that eliminate implicit trust, and audit systems against SOC 2, NIST, and CIS benchmarks. To be successful in this project, you should have a background in enterprise security concepts, data governance principles, and basic understanding of compliance frameworks.

Syllabus

Module 1: Root Cause Analysis for Data Breach Investigation

Learners master investigative techniques using MITRE ATT&CK framework to reconstruct attack timelines, correlate evidence across multiple systems, and distinguish between immediate attack techniques and underlying architectural vulnerabilities requiring systemic remediation.

Module 2: Zero Trust Architecture Design

Learners develop practical zero trust frameworks by implementing identity and access management controls, establishing data loss prevention policies with real-time monitoring, and creating network segmentation strategies that eliminate implicit trust assumptions.

Module 3: Security Controls Evaluation and Compliance

Learners conduct comprehensive gap analysis comparing current implementations against SOC 2, NIST, and CIS requirements, prioritize remediation activities based on risk impact and compliance criticality, and create executive-ready assessment reports.