Security Analyst

Security Analyst Nanodegree Experience

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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.

Project - 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.

Introduction to Analyzing Threats

In this lesson, you'll be introduced to what you'll be learning about in this course!

Identifying Security Threats

In this lesson, you will learn about internal threats, external threats, and the OWASP Top 10.

Mitigating Threats

In this lesson, you will learn different mitigation strategies and the threats they mitigate.

Threat Modeling

In this lesson, you will use your new skills to create Threat Models for different threat scenarios.

Project: Insecure Juice Shop

In this lesson, you will work with a large company to assess threats and suggest mitigations.

Introduction to Vulnerability and Risk

Get your first look at vulnerability assessment and where you’ll go throughout this course.

Understanding Vulnerabilities

Dive deeper into what vulnerabilities are, common types, and their relation to risk.

Assessing Vulnerabilities

Learn how to perform vulnerability assessments and some of the tools to do so.

Determining Risk and Business Impact

Determining the risks and impact to the business of the identified vulnerabilities, as well as considering how to mitigate them.

Managing and Mitigating Risk

Finalize your vulnerability assessment with targeted summaries by audience and strategic guidance.

Project: Juice Shop Vulnerabilities Report

Dive back into Juice Shop, this time to assess vulnerabilities and reduce risks related to the insecure application.

Foundations of Monitoring and Logging

Find out why monitoring and logging is essential to cybersecurity, learn about the history of log monitoring, and get started with the virtual machine you'll be using in this course.

Incident Detection

Discover how to uncover security incidents using an Intrusion Detection System. Create and analyze IDS rules and security log data.

Monitoring and Logging

Capture and analyze network traffic using tcpdump and Wireshark, and search security logs using Splunk, a powerful SIEM tool.

Incident Handling

Find out about the process to remediate security incidents, and an important tool to handle incidents consistently: incident handling playbooks.

Project: Intrusion Detection and Response

In this project you will be filling in for a colleague who is on vacation. You will review and make decisions about network-based Intrusion Detection System alerts.

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