Course Outline
Foundations of Cybersecurity
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Recognise the core skills and knowledge needed to become a cybersecurity analyst.
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Identify how security attacks impact business operations.
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Explain security ethics.
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Identify common tools used by cybersecurity analysts.
Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks
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Identify the primary threats, risks, and vulnerabilities to business operations.
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Examine how organisations use security frameworks and controls to protect business operations.
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Define commonly used Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.
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Use a playbook to respond to threats, risks, and vulnerabilities.
Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security
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Define the types of networks and components of networks.
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Illustrate how data is sent and received over a network.
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Understand how to secure a network against intrusion tactics.
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Describe system hardening techniques.
Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL
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Explain the relationship between operating systems, applications, and hardware.
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Compare a graphical user interface to a command line interface.
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Navigate and manage the file system using Linux commands via the Bash shell.
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Use SQL to retrieve information from a database.
Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
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Classify assets.
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Analyse an attack surface to find risks and vulnerabilities.
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Identify threats, such as social engineering, malware and web-based exploits.
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Summarise the threat modelling process.
Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response
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Identify the steps to contain, eradicate, and recover from an incident.
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Analyse packets to interpret network communications.
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Understand basic syntax, components of signatures and logs in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) tools.
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Perform queries in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to investigate an event.
Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python
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Explain how the Python programming language is used in cybersecurity.
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Create new, user-defined Python functions.
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Use regular expressions to extract information from text.
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Practice debugging code.
Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs
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Determine when and how to escalate a security incident.
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Engage with the cybersecurity community.
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Find and apply for cybersecurity jobs.
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Prepare for job interviews.
Requirements
- No degree or experience required.
Testimonials (2)
The final day which is the Machine Learning Topic
John Erick Baltazar - Globe Telecom
Course - Google BigQuery
It was a really good training course, well prepared and explained by the trainer with great hands on experience on GCP.
