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.
Overview
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