This course introduces the fundamentals of defending systems. Learn to effectively apply physical, logical, and administrative controls, and design resilient, secure network architectures to protect organizations.
Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction to the Analyst Role
- This lesson is an introduction to the Security Analyst role and how that role fits into an organization.
- Core Frameworks and Principles
- This lesson provides the underlying philosophy and objectives for your work as an Analyst. Through real examples, you'll explore a variety of attack vectors and threat modeling strategies.
- Controls
- This lesson is a broad survey of the families of security controls and provides opportunities to work with some of the technical mechanisms used to prevent security challenges.
- Defensible Network Architecture
- This lesson focuses on improving your organization's posture by applying control concepts to design infrastructure that is more resistant to intrusion.
- Planning for Security Controls
- For your final project, you will assume the role of an Information Security Analyst for an industrial manufacturing company located in the Midwest Unites States.
Taught by
Richard Phung