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Udacity

Data Security

via Udacity

Overview

Start preparing for a data-driven career in cybersecurity. Learn to classify and protect data, apply encryption, audit systems, and design strategies that prevent unauthorized access and data loss.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Data Security
    • This lesson provides an overview of the course including a brief introduction to data security, a brief history, when data security applies, and who it affects. Get a look at the final project.
  • Data Governance
    • Data governance is about understanding the data in your organization, its importance, who owns it, and where it exists. This enables you to effectively manage and secure it.
  • Data Confidentiality
    • In order to protect data from unauthorized access, you will need to know how to map out a storage architecture and then apply the appropriate encryption for both data at rest and in transit.
  • Data Integrity
    • In order to ensure data is trustworthy within the organization, you will need to understand information rights management, access control, file integrity, and auditing.
  • Data Availability
    • Through planned incident response, disaster recovery, business continuity, and backup strategy, organizations can ensure data is available when needed.
  • Data Security Analysis in Online Payment Processing
    • You’ll spend a day in the life of a data security professional going through the process of establishing and implementing data security controls.

Taught by

Christine Izuakor, PhD, CISSP

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