Skills you'll learn:
Threat intelligenceVulnerability management
Threats, Vulnerabilities, and Incident Response
Course
Cybersecurity breaches happen when a threat is able to successfully exploit a vulnerability within a business. To avoid these attacks, security professionals must understand the threats the company is facing, including the various threat actors and their motivations. Security professionals must also be able to find vulnerabilities that can enable threats to attack through common practices such as vulnerability scanning and penetration testing. Finally, security professionals should be able to activate and follow incident response procedures to address cybersecurity incidents and breaches. Ultimately, during this course, students will learn how to identify security threats and gaps, fix issues, and respond to inevitable attacks.
Cybersecurity breaches happen when a threat is able to successfully exploit a vulnerability within a business. To avoid these attacks, security professionals must understand the threats the company is facing, including the various threat actors and their motivations. Security professionals must also be able to find vulnerabilities that can enable threats to attack through common practices such as vulnerability scanning and penetration testing. Finally, security professionals should be able to activate and follow incident response procedures to address cybersecurity incidents and breaches. Ultimately, during this course, students will learn how to identify security threats and gaps, fix issues, and respond to inevitable attacks.
Beginner
3 weeks
Last Updated July 28, 2024
Prerequisites:
Cybersecurity fluencyCommand line interface basicsComputer networking basicsOperating system fundamentals
Beginner
3 weeks
Last Updated July 28, 2024
Skills you'll learn:
Threat intelligence • Vulnerability management • Cybersecurity incident response playbooks • Offensive security
Prerequisites:
Cybersecurity fluency • Command line interface basics • Computer networking basics
Course Lessons
Lesson 1
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!
Lesson 2
Assessing Threats
This lesson will cover threats and vulnerabilities, attack types, threat motivations, threats to organizations, and threat responses.
Lesson 3
Finding Security Vulnerabilities
In this lesson, we'll be discussing attack methods, scanning for vulnerabilities, and penetration testing.
Lesson 4
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.
Lesson 5
Preparing for Inevitable Attacks
Finally, we're going to cover incidents and recovery, events and incidents, the response lifecycle, and roles and response plans.
Lesson 6 • 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.
Taught By The Best
Christine Izuakor, PhD, CISSP
Founder & CEO, Cyber Pop-up
Dr. Christine Izuakor is the CEO of Cyber Pop-up, an on-demand cybersecurity platform powered by vetted cyber freelancers. She has over a decade of experience leading cybersecurity functions within Fortune 100 companies and has her PhD in Security Engineering.
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