Cybersecurity

This course module provides a comprehensive overview of DevOps practices, models and techniques, along with coverage of DevOps benefits, challenges and business and technology drivers. Also explained is how DevOps compares to traditional solution development and release approaches and how the application of DevOps can be monitored and measured for concrete business value.

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Business Drivers of DevOps

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IT Roles in DevOps Projects

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Goals and Benefits of DevOps Adoption

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Interoperability and Transparent Collaboration

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Rapid Delivery, Responsive Scalability and Increased Reliability

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Impacts and Challenges of DevOps Adoption

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Automation, Measurement and Unified Metrics

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DevOps Platform and Toolchain

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The 20 Common DevOps Tools, Repositories and Systems

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DevOps Lifecycle and Stages

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Delivery Pipeline, Feedback Loop and Dark Launching

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Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD)

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Automated Builds and Automated Testing

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Continuous Deployment and Automated Release Management

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Dependency Management, Infrastructure Resource Staging and Compliance Verification

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Introduction to IaC, PaC and CaC

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This course module delves into the building blocks of cybersecurity solution environments and further explores the range of cyber threats that cybersecurity solutions can be designed to protect organizations from. Topics include cybersecurity technology mechanisms that represent the common components that comprise cybersecurity solutions, formal processes and procedures used to establish sound practices that utilize the mechanisms, as well as common cyber threats and attacks and how they can be mitigated using the previously described mechanisms and processes.

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15 Cyber Security Mechanisms (including Honeypots, Biometric Scanners, Intrusion Detection, Malicious Code Analysis and User Behavior Analytics Systems)

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9 Cybersecurity Monitoring Mechanisms (including Malware Monitors, Network Intrusion Monitors and Data Loss Protection Monitors)

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13 Cybersecurity Processes (including Attack Surface Reduction, Continuous Vulnerability Management and Network Monitoring and Defense)

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Insider Threat Detection and Incident Response Management

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Cyber Threat Intelligence and Cyber Attack Motivations

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13 Common Cyber Threats and Attacks (including Botnets, Tunneling and Remote Code Execution Attacks and 8 types of Malware)

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Insider Threats, Social Engineering and Phishing

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Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs)

This course module presents participants with a series of exercises and problems that are designed to test their ability to apply their knowledge of topics covered in previous modules. Completing this lab will help highlight areas that require further attention and will help prove hands-on proficiency in Cybersecurity threats, practices and technologies, as they are utilized and combined to solve real-world problems.

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Reading Exercise 3.1: ENO Bank Background

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Lab Exercise 3.2: Data Breach

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Lab Exercise 3.3: Hidden Malware

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Optional Lab Exercise 3.4: Cybersecurity Processes

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Optional Lab Exercise 3.5: Cybersecurity Metrics

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Reading Exercise 3.6: ITI Background

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Lab Exercise 3.7: Ransomware

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Lab Exercise 3.8: Phishing

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Lab Exercise 3.9: Cybersecurity Processes

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Lab Exercise 3.10: Cybersecurity Metrics

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Reading Exercise 3.11: Auto-Mech Background

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Lab Exercise 3.12: Botnet and DoS

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Lab Exercise 3.13: Software Exploit and SQL Injection

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Optional Lab Exercise 3.14: Cybersecurity Processes

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Optional Lab Exercise 3.15: Cybersecurity Metrics

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Reading Exercise 3.16: Top Sector Financial (TSF) Background

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Lab Exercise 3.17: Malicious Insider