Course Outline
Foundations of Cybersecurity
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Recognise the core skills and knowledge essential for a career as a cybersecurity analyst.
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Analyze how security breaches affect business operations.
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Explain the principles of security ethics.
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Identify the common tools utilised by cybersecurity analysts.
Play It Safe: Manage Security Risks
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Identify the primary threats, risks, and vulnerabilities facing business operations.
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Examine how organisations employ security frameworks and controls to safeguard operations.
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Define commonly used Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools.
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Utilise playbooks to respond effectively to threats, risks, and vulnerabilities.
Connect and Protect: Networks and Network Security
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Define various network types and their constituent components.
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Illustrate the processes involved in sending and receiving data over a network.
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Understand methods for securing networks against intrusion tactics.
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Describe system hardening techniques.
Tools of the Trade: Linux and SQL
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Explain the relationship between operating systems, applications, and hardware.
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Compare graphical user interfaces with command-line interfaces.
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Navigate and manage the file system using Linux commands via the Bash shell.
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Use SQL to retrieve information from a database.
Assets, Threats, and Vulnerabilities
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Classify assets within an organisation.
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Analyze an attack surface to identify risks and vulnerabilities.
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Identify threats such as social engineering, malware, and web-based exploits.
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Summarize the threat modelling process.
Sound the Alarm: Detection and Response
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Identify the steps required to contain, eradicate, and recover from a security incident.
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Analyze packets to interpret network communications.
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Understand the basic syntax, components of signatures, and logs in Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS).
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Perform queries in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) tools to investigate an event.
Automate Cybersecurity Tasks with Python
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Explain how the Python programming language is applied in cybersecurity.
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Create new, user-defined Python functions.
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Use regular expressions to extract information from text.
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Practice debugging code.
Put It to Work: Prepare for Cybersecurity Jobs
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Determine when and how to escalate a security incident.
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Engage with the cybersecurity community.
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Find and apply for cybersecurity jobs.
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Prepare for job interviews.
Requirements
- No prior degree or professional experience is required.
Testimonials (2)
The final day which is the Machine Learning Topic
John Erick Baltazar - Globe Telecom
Course - Google BigQuery
It was a really good training course, well prepared and explained by the trainer with great hands on experience on GCP.
