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Udacity

Systems Security

via Udacity

Overview

This course builds core systems security skills by covering authentication, authorization, vulnerability scanning, and breach detection, helping you monitor, protect, and harden systems against cyber threats.

Syllabus

  • Introduction to Systems Security
    • In this lesson, you'll be introduced to the course and what to expect!
  • Third Party Vulnerabilities
    • In this lesson, you will start learning about third party vulnerabilities and how to protect against them.
  • Authentication
    • In this lesson, you will learn about password management tools, securing remote access, and encryption.
  • Authorization
    • In this lesson, you will learn about access control, ownership and permissions, and creating rules and filters.
  • Isolation
    • In this lesson, you will learn about restricting access, access control, and memory attacks.
  • Auditing
    • In this lesson, you will learn about logging and monitoring.
  • Responding to a Nation-State Cyber Attack
    • In this project, you will detect a threat, mitigate it, and harden a system in the aftermath of a nation-state cyber attack.

Taught by

nd698 Abhinav Singh

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