Security Engineer

An Introduction to Your Nanodegree Program

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Getting Help

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Introduction to Security Engineering

In this lesson, you'll be introduced to the course and what to expect!

What is Security Engineering?

In this lesson, you'll be introduced to Security Engineering and different facets of security.

Security Principles

In this lesson, you'll be introduced to the CIA triad, Authorization, Authentication, Non-Repudiation, and the Principles of Secure Design.

Practical Cryptography

In this lesson, you'll learn about encryption, hashing, and their uses in modern security.

Risk Evaluation

In this lesson, you'll learn how to evaluate risks and begin suggesting mitigations and creating models.

Security Review and Audit

In this lesson, you'll learn the how a Security Engineer interacts with the review and audit process.

TimeSheets Threat Model

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

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.

Infrastructure Security

This lesson introduces this course and the instructor to help set your learning path.

Infrastructure Security Assessment

In this lesson you'll set the foundation for good security assessment practices.

Access Management

In this lesson, you'll learn about access management to make sure your files and data are secure.

Monitoring and Detection

In this lesson you'll learn how to monitor and detect issues inside your perimeter.

Identity Access Management

In this lesson you'll learn about identity management.

Top Security Failures

In this lesson you'll learn about the top security failures inside of a perimeter and how to mitigate them

Adversarial Resilience - Assessing Infrastructure Security

The project and its details for this course.

Introduction to Application Security

Welcome to Application Security, but before we start let's learn a little about who I am and the history of application security.

Common Web Application Vulnerabilities

In this lesson we will go over who is OWASP and talk about the OWASP Top 10 and recommendations/best practices to mediate them.

Web Penetration Testing

In this lesson we will go over techniques used to conduct penetration testing on a web application.

Discovery Methodologies

In this lesson we will go over Static Application Security Testing and how to read/modify them.

Vulnerability Response

In this section we are going to focus on report writing and how to calculate severity using CVSS v3.1.

Mitigation and Verification

We learned how to find and document all vulnerabilities, but we are not done just yet. Now we need to focus our efforts on communicating with the development and QA teams to achieve a more secure app.

Vulnerable Web Application

You are hired by a startup to identify how their web application was breached, what vulnerabilities do they have, and make recommendations on how they can mitigate these vulnerabilities.

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