Cybersecurity Essentials

The Cybersecurity Fundamentals program will provide learners with principles of data and technology that frame and define cybersecurity. Learners will gain insight into the importance of cybersecurity and the integral role of cybersecurity professionals.

The interactive, self-guided format will provide a dynamic learning experience where users can explore foundational cybersecurity principles, security architecture, risk management, attacks, incidents, and emerging IT and IS technologies.

What You Will Learn:

• Explain the core information assurance (IA) principles
• Identify the key components of cybersecurity network architecture
• Apply cybersecurity architecture principles
• Describe risk management processes and practices
• Identify security tools and hardening techniques
• Distinguish system and application security threats and vulnerabilities
• Describe different classes of attacks
• Define types of incidents including categories, responses and timelines for response
• Describe new and emerging IT and IS technologies
• Analyze threats and risks within context of the cybersecurity architecture
• Appraise cybersecurity incidents to apply appropriate response
• Evaluate decision making outcomes of cybersecurity scenarios
• Access additional external resources to supplement knowledge of cybersecurity

Course Structure:

• Introduction to CyberSecurity
• Cybersecurity roles and objectives
• Differences between Information Security & Cybersecurity
• Cybersecurity principles: Confidentiality, integrity, & availability
• Authentication & nonrepudiation
• Information Security Lifecycle Management
• Cybersecurity lifecycle management landscape
• Security architecture processes
• Security architecture tools
• Intermediate lifecycle management concepts
• Risk, Threat and Vulnerability & Incident Response Management
• Understanding risk management in Cybersecurity
• Operational threat environments
• Classes of attacks
• Incident categories
• Incident response
• Incident recovery
• Security on emerging technology Cloud, AI, Mobile
• Security trends 2020 and beyond
• How emerging technologies changing the Cybersecurity landscape
• Understanding new emerging technology risk
• Security management for Mobile, Cloud, Bigdata, Automation & AI
• Mitigating security risk on emerging technologies