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- Describe basic cybersecurity threats, attacks, and mitigations.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Define what is cybersecurity.
- Describe the basic threat landscape.
- Describe different types of Malware.
- Describe basic mitigation strategies.
- Describe concepts of cryptography.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Describe some of the basic concepts of cryptography.
- Describe encryption and is uses in cybersecurity.
- Describe hashing and digital signing.
- Describe the concept and use of digital certificates.
- Describe authentication and authorization in cybersecurity.
After completing this module, you'll be able to:
- Define authentication.
- Describe common authentication-based attacks.
- Describe authorization security techniques.
- Describe basic networking concepts and how they relate to cybersecurity.
- Describe the basics of networks.
- Describe the threats to network security.
- Describe ways to protect your network.
- Describe ways to securely connect to and communicate over a network.
- Describe device-based threats and security controls.
- Describe what your device knows about you.
- Describe how devices and become cybersecurity threats.
- Describe how to mitigate against device-related threats.
- Describe application-based threats and security controls.
- Describe what are applications.
- Describe the threat landscape of applications.
- Describe how to protect your applications.
