Introduction to Cybersecurity

Nanodegree Program Introduction

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Welcome to Cybersecurity Fundamentals

In this lesson, you will be given an overview of the course.

What is Cybersecurity

In this lesson, you will learn the security trend and how to develop a career in cybersecurity.

Maintain a Secure Infrastructure

In this lesson, you will learn some cybersecurity laws and some basics about security governance, compliance, and regulations.

Think Like a Hacker

In this lesson, you will learn the hacking lifecycle and the basics of vulnerability, threat, and attack.

Security Defenses

In this lesson, you will learn some basic methods to keep your computer and network safe.

Applying Cybersecurity

In this lesson, you will practice applying cybersecurity to many situations.

Project: Securing a Business Network

In this project, you will apply the skills you have learned in this course to secure a business network.

Introduction to Defending and Securing Systems

Course introduction to Introduction to Defending and Securing Systems

Defending Computer Systems and Security Principles

In this lesson you will learn about best practices in defending computer systems.

System Security: Securing Networks

In this lesson you will learn how to secure networks.

Monitoring and Logging for Detection of Malicious Activity

In this lesson, you'll learn how to effectively monitor and use logs to detect malicious activity.

Cryptography Basics (Applied Cryptography)

In this lesson, you will learn the basics of cryptography and how to use tools to encrypt files.

Project: Monitoring and Securing the DFI Environment

This lesson is the project lesson for Defending and Securing Systems course.

Intro to Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Incident Response

Meet your instructor, discuss what you'll learn in this course, major stakeholders and a brief history, and a peek at the final project!

Assessing Threats

This lesson will cover threats and vulnerabilities, attack types, threat motivations, threats to organizations, and threat responses.

Finding Security Vulnerabilities

In this lesson, we'll be discussing attack methods, scanning for vulnerabilities, and penetration testing.

Fixing Security Vulnerabilities

We're going to cover how to conduct vulnerability research, test and apply results, and how to prioritize and strategize the results in this lesson.

Preparing for Inevitable Attacks

Finally, we're going to cover incidents and recovery, events and incidents, the response lifecycle, and roles and response plans.

Project: Navigating a Cybersecurity Incident

During the project, you'll summarize and profile a cyber threat, conduct a vulnerability scan, research, analyze and prioritize vulnerabilities, and finally - document incident response actions.

GRC Overview

In this lesson, we’ll be outlining the basic course structure and discussing the prerequisites that you should possess before taking the course.

Introduction to Governance, Risk, and Compliance

During this lesson, we will lay the groundwork for the rest of the course by developing a definition for Security GRC and briefly introducing how GRC roles function today.

Governance

This lesson focuses on the role of security governance. This is what puts the “G” in GRC.

Risk

In this lesson we’ll learn how risk management has evolved over time into today’s security risk management practice and explore some of the tools risk managers use.

Compliance

Compliance deals with a relatively structured approach to ensuring organizations meet their obligations to security standards through their security controls and practices.

Audit Management

The lesson focuses on ensuring that audits go smoothly by developing an understanding of audit management fundamentals and how GRC professionals should plan for and remediate audit results.

Project: SwiftTech Report

Apply the skills you have acquired to analyze data provided about a fictional technology company and create fundamental components of the company’s GRC program.

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